Audemars Piguet Millenary Hand-Wound Minute Repeater

The audible indication of the time, initially created to “tell” the time in the dark in an age when electricity had not yet been invented, is the oldest of all horological complications. Audemars Piguet has made it part of its fundamental identity, by creating minute repeater and grand strike models right from the time of its founding in 1875. The new Millenary Minute Repeater model is in direct line with this tradition. This exceptional watch with its oval case and three-dimensional architecture reveals the essentials of its refined movement: a new AP escapement, a double balance-spring, as well as the striking mechanism and its gongs. The result is a genuine visual delight.

Model Number: 26371TI.OO.D002CR.01

Movement

·Manufacture Audemars Piguet Calibre 2910

·Offset hours/minutes at 3 o’clock, offset minutes at 7 o’clock

·Three-position winding crown

·Repeater slide serving to activate the minute repeater at 7 o’clock

·Movement dimensions (width and thickness): 37.90 x 32.90 mm

·Casing diameter (width and thickness): 37 x 32 mm

·Total movement thickness: 10.05 mm

·Direct-impulse AP escapement

·Variable-inertia balance fitted with inertia-blocks

·Diameter of the balance: 11.90 mm

·Flat double balance-spring

·Power reserve: 165 hours

·Frequency: 21.600 vph (3Hz)

·Number of parts: 443

·Number of jewels: 40

·Finishing: all parts finished by hand, with hand-polished bevelling, interior angles, snailing, hand-draw file strokes, horizontal “Côtes de Genève” motif and circular-graining on the mainplate

Case

·Titanium oval case

·Width: 47 mm

·Thickness: 42 mm

·Sapphire crystal caseback

·Non water-resistant Dial

·Anthracite grey dial, applied pink gold Roman numerals, silvered small seconds subdialStrap

·Hand-sewn black crocodile leather “with large square scales”, fastened bya titanium AP folding clasp

Functions

·Hours

·Minutes

·Small seconds

·Minute repeater

Audemars Piguet Millenary Quincy Jones Limited Edition Watch

Audemars Piguet has released several different variations of the Millenary, and I think this one is by far its best. It is a watch unconditionally fitting of a Music Impresario such as Quincy Jones. The watch – limited to 500 pieces – has a blackened and polished steel case with the Millenary’s signature “off-center” positioning of the hours, minutes and seconds functions. The case back is engraved with Quincy Jones’ signature, and also reads “Millenary Quincy Jones – Limited Edition” as a reminder of its exclusivity. The piece is comes on a black leather strap with matching “AP” folding clasp. The watch contains Audemars Piguet’s in-house Caliber 3120.

Who is Quincy Jones, you ask? He is arguably the most successful and accomplished musician, composer, producer, arranger and conductor of all time! Some of you may know him as the producer of Thriller, by late pop icon Michael Jackson. Others, for his landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block–named “Album Of The Year” at the 1990 Grammy Awards– which brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to create the first fusion of the be bop and hip hop musical traditions. You can click here to learn more about him on The Official Quincy Jones Website.