Audemars Piguet Geneva Boutique and Limited Edition

On 29 May, Audemars Piguet officially inaugurated a new boutique at 12, Place de la Fusterie in Geneva. The new showcase opened on 6 March to the public and is the twelfth and largest Audemars Piguet boutique to date, spread over 300m² and including 250m² of sales space.

Audemars Piguet sold the first “Rhone-Fusterie” Royal Oak Offshore in the collection to the highest bidder and gave the proceeds to the Little Dreams Foundation (set up in 2000 by Phil and Orianne Collins), which works to help talented able-bodied and disabled youngsters achieve their dreams in the arts and sports. The Little Dreams Band ran through its extensive repertoire from the boutique’s mezzanine.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore “Rhone-Fusterie” Chronograph

Limited series of 500 numbered watches

Case:Stainless-steel

Movement: Self-winding 3126/3840 calibre

Caseback: engraved with the inscription Rhone-Fusterie and Royal Oak Offshore

Water-resistant:100 metres

Push-pieces and crown: Rubber-moulded stainless steel

Dial: Red with exclusive “Mega Tapisserie” motif; white counters and white luminescent hour-markers

Strap: Red crocodile leather; AP stainless-steel folding clasp

Functions: Hours, minutes; small seconds at half past the hour; central stopwatch with second hand, 30-minute and 12-hour counters; tachometric scale on bezel; date

Audemars Piguet Boutique Collection Limited Edition

Audemars Piguet Boutique Collection Limited Edition

“Queen’s Road” Royal Oak Offshore Titanium

Selfwinding chronograph with date and small seconds

Dedicated to Carlson Boutique in Hong Kong, the “Queen’s Road” Royal Oak Offshore Titanium selfwinding chronograph with date and small seconds is a tailormade timepiece to feature the first road in Hong Kong built by the Government of Hong Kong between 1841 and 1843.

The road is split into four sections, from west to east: Queen's Road West, Queen's Road Central, Queensway and Queen's Road East, in which, Carlson Boutique, the official Audemars Piguet Boutique, is located at Queen’s Road Central.

Queen's Road witnesses the development of Hong Kong and becomes one of the signature landscapes nowadays. Likewise, founded in 1875, Audemars Piguet is the oldest Manufacture of Haute Horlogerie never to have left the hands of the founding families. Today, its range encompasses complex mechanical watches, Haute Joaillerie creations as well as a line of jewellery. At each stage in its history, the Manufacture has daringly adopted avant-garde techniques in order to place them in the service of traditional craftsmanship.

The Audemars Piguet watch is limited edition of 100.It using the Calibre 3126/3840.It features titanium case,caseback engraved with "Queen's Road".Other features include black "Mega Tapisserie"pattern dial with red numeral hour markers,date window at 3 o'clock,black rubber crown and pushers,water-resistant to 100 m,black “Hornback” crocodile strap with titanium AP folding clasp,supports amazing chronograph function(60-second,30-minute and 12-hour counters at 12,9 and 6 o'clock respectively),and tachometric scale around the flange

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Audemars Piguet Museum Antique Pocket Watches Appear In Movie “Bodyguards and Assassins”

[Shanghai, June 21, 2009] The making of movie “Bodyguards and Assassins” is very promising. Besides investing RMB43,000,000 building the biggest 1:1 scale set of the City of Victoria (British Colony of Hong Kong in 1905) ever built in Shanghai, they have also successfully got the support from the prestigious Swiss luxury watch brand Audemars Piguet, which will lend a few pieces of priceless antique pocket watches for shooting, and associate the story with Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s life-threatening moments within his short stay in Hong Kong.

Mr. Wolfgang Sickenberg, CEO of Audemars Piguet (Hong Kong), Mr. David von Gunten, new CEO of Audemars Piguet (Hong Kong) and movie Producer Mr. Peter Chan take a photo together in this very expensively built city.

Priceless pocket watches dating back to 1900s from Audemars Piguet museum will appear in the movie Bodyguards and Assassins.

In order to match the historical background of the movie, Mr. Martin Wehrli, Audemars Piguet Museum Director, especially selected a few pocket watches dating back to 1900s from his very precious museum collections and shipped immediately from Switzerland to Hong Kong. These priceless pocket watches have been brought to Shanghai now and are presented to Mr. Peter Chan, Producer of the movie by Mr. Wolfgang Sickenberg, CEO of Audemars Piguet (Hong Kong), Mr. David von Gunten, new CEO of Audemars Piguet (Hong Kong) and Ms. Karen Yong, Regional Marketing Manager of Audemars Piguet. Peter expressed his sincere appreciation to Audemars Piguet, and is confident that these museum pieces would contribute a lot to make the movie more persuasive. Mr. Sickenberg said it is quite honored to cooperate with such a great movie, he hoped that the 134 years history of Audemars Piguet would fit in the story well and wished the movie a great success.

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Las Vegas Strip Manual Wind Tourbillon with Chronograph

Limited edition of 35 pieces

Discerning connoisseurs know the tourbillon as an astonishing technical achievement with a centuries-old history. Historically developed by a master watchmaker to the French royal court in the early 19th century, the tourbillon was originally intended to dramatically improve the performance of a pocket watch by rotating the entire escapementthe heart of the movement which actually keeps time through a 360 degree circle once per minute, so as to cancel out the timekeeping variations caused by gravity. Today, the tourbillon is presented by the worlds most accomplished houses of watchmaking as a tour de force demonstration of the highest skills. Audemars Piguet combines this noble construction with other sophisticated complications to create the Las Vegas Strip Tourbillon Chronograph. The meticulously finished tourbillon carriage is visible beneath a specially treated red colored bridge affixed to the signature Mega Tapisserie dial. The challenging task of combining a chronograph complication with a tourbillon is executed by Audemars Piguet with world-renowned skill.

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak is power by manual winding tourbillon caliber 2889 with chronograph.The exquisitely finished 42 mm diameter blackened steel case with Black Mega Tapisserie patterned dial and red numeral hour markers,with "Las Vegas Strip" engraved on caseback.Water-resistant to 20 meters.This extraordinary combination of complications is housed in a blackened steel Royal Oak case with blackened steel crown and pushers. Presented by Audemars Piguet on a black leather strap with matching blackened steel Audemars Piguet folding clasp in a special presentation box containing two sets of Audemars Piguet playing cards and a full set of poker chips, this ultimate expression of bold artistry and incomparable technical achievement is available in only 35 individually numbered pieces worldwide.

Audemars Piguet Ladies Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Chronograph with Diamonds in White Gold

Limited edition of 60 pieces

This delightful creation presents all the astonishing beauty of the larger diamond set Offshore Las Vegas Strip chronograph in an unmistakably feminine profile.The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronographs 37mm diameter white gold case is a work of art with a fully paveed setting of 323 brilliant cut diamonds, placed with incredible skill. The black Mega Tapisserie dial flashes seductive red subdials offset with 8 diamonds in place of numerals at the hour markers, creating a sporty yet sophisticated versatility that bridges day and evening with ease. Inside, accentuating the slim dimensions is the extra flat chronograph automatic chronograph caliber 2385, with the date set discreetly at the 4:30 position on the dial. This homage to cutting edge elegance also features diamond setting on the Audemars Piguet folding clasp. Presented by Audemars Piguet on a black leather strap, water resistant to 20 meters, black rubber screw down crown and black rubber pushers, the timepiece is presented with two sets of Audemars Piguet playing cards.

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph in Diamonds and White Gold

Limited edition of 60 pieces

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph set with a total of 369 brilliant cut diamonds flashing against a white gold background. The dial construction is the same as the watch which yesterday introduced.Most notably,this diamond-set model truly exemplifies the rare art of horological gem-setting, one of the most demanding of the watchmakers decorative arts. Each of the myriad precious gems is painstakingly matched for cut, color and clarity before being set with the utmost attention to detail. A careful examination of the diamonds in the bezel, for instance, reveals that each is a slightly different size so as to precisely bridge the difference between the perfect circle of the inner bezel and the octagonal geometry of the outer bezel.Black leather strap with 18-carat white gold AP folding clasp set with diamonds.

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore with selfwinding chronograph caliber 3126/3840,water-resistant to 20 meters,the diamond set Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph is the pinnacle of both the jewelers and the watchmakers art. Complemented by two packs of Audemars Piguet playing cards and a complete set of poker chips.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph

Limited edition of 400 pieces

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph is a dramatic study in contrasts.

Looking deeper inside the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph watch you’ll find a lot of goodies including:

The exquisitely finished 42 mm blackened steel case with a richly textured Mega Tapisserie patterned dial form the background for the brilliant red numerals hour markers and tachymetric bezel,the date window at 3 o'clock,the 12-hour,60-seconds and 30-min counters at 6, 12 and 9 o’clock respectively.The fine detailing of the case and hands is matched by the watchs complex interior. The Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph is equipped with the Audemars Piguet manufactured in-house caliber 3126/3840, a movement which has won accolades throughout the world of fine watchmaking as one of the finest automatic movements currently in existence. Other features include with "Las Vegas Strip" engraved on the caseback, midnight pushers and crowns cover the black rubber, antimagnetic protection for the finely tuned mechanism inside and a water resistance to 100 meters, the Las Vegas Strip Chronograph is both boldly elegant and prepared for any adventure. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Chronograph fitted with a Hornback black crocodile strap with contrasting red stitching and a blackened steel folding clasp with blades in the shape of the Audemars Piguet initials, the watch is complemented by two sets of Audemars Piguet playing cards.