The Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Skeleton Equation of Time watch is a masterpiece of haute horlogerie. With this masterpiece, Audemars Piguet has produced a complicated watch which showcases significant astronomic complications, and also demonstrates the rare and precious art of the skeleton movement. This exquisite timepiece is offered exclusively in a platinum case; measuring 39mm in diameter, the fine Jules Audemars case shows off a pleasing alternation of brushed and polished surfaces, highlighting the ultra fine craftsmanship of the watch.
A glimpse into the sapphire dial gives hint of the extraordinary complexity inherent to the 2120/2882 caliber movement, which boasts 423 individual components. The perpetual calendar mechanism of this watch indicates day of the week, date, month, leap year, and phases of the moon, all without any need for manual correction from the wearer.
It is equipped with specific cams and a calibrated bezel, that allow for the watch to correctly show time of sunrise and sunset, to within a minute, of the wearer's location.This watch accurately indicates the moment of solar culmination--that time in which the sun reaches its highest point in the observer's meridian. By utilizing the supplementary equation of time hand, one can accurately calculate the mathematical difference (ranging between -16 and +15 minutes throughout the year) between true solar time, as measured by a sundial, and mean solar time which for convenience sake divides the day evenly into 24 hour periods. The exquisite Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Skeleton Equation of Time watch is produced in extremely small numbers each year, and it is supplied with a crocodile strap, and an elegant AP folding clasp in platinum.
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