AUDEMARS PIGUET – CODE 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked Gold

AUDEMARS PIGUET – CODE 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Tourbillon Openworked Pnk Gold Exclusive Edition

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“CODE 11.59 BY AUDEMARS PIGUET”
STANDS FOR ITS GENETIC CODE

“At Audemars Piguet we constantly challenge ourselves to push
the limits of craftsmanship. Endowed with a strong spirit of
independence, we proudly own our roots and territory, daring
to combine precision and creativity. Faithful to our legacy, we
continue to evolve by preserving and rewriting traditions.”
Jasmine Audemars, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors

Code 11.59

If the name Code 11.59 sounds pretty cool by itself (at least to me), Audemars Piguet also uses it as an acronym to present the watch:

•     Challenge - Challenge the limits of craftsmanship
•     Own – Our roots and legacy
•     Dare – To follow firm convictions
•     Evolve – Never stand still

    11.59 – The last minute before a new day

Challenging the Limits of Craftsmanship

For over 144 years, Audemars Piguet has nurtured generations of talented craftspeople dedicated to practicing their skills at the highest level, building on tradition, while consistently breaking the well-mastered rules of horology. Never taking its savoir-faire for granted, Audemars Piguet continuously challenges its practices and production standards in an endless quest for artistry, excellence and technical perfection.

Owning Legacy

Audemars Piguet is the oldest fine watchmaking manufacturer still in the hands of its founding families.

Devoted to the preservation and transmission of its passion, savoir-faire and avant-garde spirit, Audemars Piguet continues to infuse its timepieces with enduring values of artistic excellence and technical mastery.

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Taking ownership of its roots, Audemars Piguet also affirms its creative vision through artistic reinterpretations, such as infrared shots, of the natural landscape of the Vallée de Joux, where it all began in 1875.

Daring to Follow Firm Convictions

Going against the flow of industrialisation in 1875, Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet turned their backs on the lure of mass markets, daring to craft unique complicated watches. Since then, Audemars Piguet has charted its own course.

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A century later, Audemars Piguet continued to create bold complicated wristwatches in defiance of the quartz crisis, venturing to develop the world’s thinnest selfwinding perpetual calendar in 1978 and paving the way for the revival of classical mechanical complications.

Evolve Never Standing Still

Constantly reinventing itself, while never losing sight of its origins, Audemars Piguet never stands still.

With the emergence of the digital age, Audemars Piguet has kept following its own path, using transformative technologies to create ground-breaking timepieces. Passionate, innovative, and persevering, Audemars Piguet’s craftsmen continuously develop new skills and techniques, broadening their savoir-faire to set rule-breaking trends

LOOK AT ME CLOSELY.
IT TAKES TIME TO KNOW ME FOR
WHO I REALLY AM

“Classic by nature and unconventional by design, Code 11.59
by Audemars Piguet chooses it all. This collection demanded
new tools, skills and techniques to reach an exceptional degree
of technical and aesthetic complexity. Code 11.59 by
Audemars Piguet is about human challenges. It tells the
passionate stories of the dedicated watchmakers who dared to
follow their convictions, joined forces and persevered, always
pushing their own limits.”
François-Henry Bennahmias, Chief Executive Officer

Precision Is in the Details

 Uniquely Recognisable

The Round, the Octagonal and the Beyond

Audemars Piguet interweaves tensions and opposite forces in the design of the collection’s uniquely recognisable case. By boldly embedding an octagonal middlecase within a round case, Audemars Piguet cuts through the timeline of its long history of form and design experimentations.

The upper part of the openworked lugs is welded to the extra-thin bezel, while the lower part leans delicately against the caseback in perfect alignment. All teams at Audemars Piguet have been implicated in their design and manufacture. New processes challenging traditional production standards were developed to solder the lugs to this extremely thin surface.

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With its optimum curved ergonomics, the case has been conceived to adjust to different wrist sizes, making it comfortable for all to wear despite its 41 mm in diameter. Satin-brushed, bevelled and polished, the bezel, lugs and case present high complexity finishing techniques usually found on calibres.

Designed for Legibility

The Optical Crystal Experience

The Manufacture has created a complex double curved glareproofed sapphire crystal, whose tense, arched profile embodies the watch’s contemporary design.

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The glass’s internal surface is shaped like a dome, while its external surface is vertically curved from 6 to 12 o’clock. Its shape perfectly integrates the extra-thin bezel and extends from edge to edge. Playing with depth, perspective and light, this double curved sapphire crystal dives into the world of optics for a unique visual experience, while enhancing the detailed work on the
dial.

The polished chamfer all around the glass adds the finishing touch, while echoing the perfect finish of the bezel, lugs and case.

Depth and Refinement

Raised 3-D Logo Created Atom by Atom and Applied by Hand

The extra-thin bezel brings forward the artistry of the smooth lacquered dial.

The Audemars Piguet signature, which measures 12.5 mm in length, presents a unique topography, driving the art of horology to its limits. Made of thin layers of 24-carat gold, it is achieved through a chemical process akin to 3-D printing known as galvanic growth. Each letter is connected with links approximately the size of a hair and placed by hand on the dial with tiny legs almost invisible to the eye.

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Galvanic growth, which derives from micro-electronics, enables to reach micrometric precision. Although used in horology for movements, this technique is used for the first time with 24-carat gold. Going against initial warnings regarding the feasibility of such a logo, Audemars Piguet engineers followed their firm convictions. Making no compromise, they went through an extensive prototyping process, testing a wide array of variations before settling on final procedures and proportions.

Movement Variety

Six Calibres of the Latest Generation

This collection features a large choice of six in-house calibres of the latest generation.

Among these six calibres, three are new: an integrated column wheel chronograph with flyback function, a selfwinding calibre with seconds and date indication, and a selfwinding flying tourbillon calibre.

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High-end finishing is the very essence of Audemars Piguet’s watches. In respect of Audemars Piguet’s traditions and values, these movements are beautifully decorated to the slightest details with a wide array of finishing techniques, including “traits tirés”, “Côtes de Genève”, circular graining, circular satin, diamond-polished angles and gold-toned engravings.

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“With 13 different models, including four complications in one
go, Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet represents one of the most
important and comprehensive launches in the Manufacture’s
history. For the first time, we are also presenting a collection
consciously designed for both men and women, with an arched
ergonomic case comfortable for all to wear. These models reach
out to the people who choose it all and look beyond the obvious.”
Sébastian Vivas, Heritage and Museum Director

This model houses a unique hand-wound tourbillon openworked movement, calibre 2948, that conveys extreme complexity and depth. The contrast created between the 18-carat pink gold case and the dark openworked rhodium German silver mainplate and PVD bridges, exclusively designed for this collection, accentuates the movement’s artistry and 3-D effect. The gold-toned balance wheel adds a subtle touch.

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With 70 hand-polished V angles, the hand finishing on this 4.97 mm thick movement pushes the openworking art to new heights.

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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Model:  CODE 11.59 by Audemars Piguet

Ref. 26600OR.OO.D002CR.01

Movement 
Hand-wound Manufacture calibre 2948
Total diameter: 32.25 mm (14 1/3 lignes)
Total thickness: 4.97 mm
Number of jewels: 19
Number of parts: 196
Minimal guaranteed power reserve: 80 h
Frequency of balance wheel: 3 Hz (= 21,600 vibrations/hour)

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Functions

• Tourbillon
• Hours
• Minutes

Case
Diameter 41 mm
18-carat pink gold case
Glareproofed sapphire crystal and caseback
Water-resistant to 30 m
Dial
Laquered black inner bezel
Openworked
18-carat pink gold hands 
Bracelet
Hand-stitched “large square scale” black alligator strap with 18-carat pink gold folding clasp


Price: CHF 175,000

SIHH New Product Overview 2019

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