Philippe Merk, CEO of Audemars Piguet just announced a new partnership with the American Patrons of Tate (APT), the independent charity that supports the Tate Galleries in the United Kingdom. To make the announcement official, a cocktail reception on Thursday, December 1st at the Raleigh Hotel during Art Basel Miami Beach with special guest Chris Dercon, the new Director of […]

To celebrate the milestone 40th anniversary of Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak timepiece, the iconic luxury watch brand is releasing the Openworked Extra-Thin Royal Oak Limited Edition 40th Anniversary in January. As the first luxury sports watch ever, Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak has become a legend. To celebrate the iconic timepiece’ 40th anniversary, the luxury watch brand is releasing the Openworked […]

Go into any boutique that sells luxury watches and you’ll be confronted with a scale of prices that rise sharply as watches become more complicated.  At the pinnacle is the complication known as the tourbillon (French for “whirlwind.”)  If you’ve never seen one before, one look and you’ll remember it forever; it’s a rotating spiderweb […]

What goes around, comes around –call them ultra thin or extra flat, thin dress watches are back, and a rose by any other name would be just as elegant.  Though a newcomer to fine watchmaking in recent years might be forgiven for not knowing it, making a thin watch (and wearing one) was for decades […]

It’s the oldest complication in watchmaking: a timepiece that chimes the time, and the newest one from the world renowned house of Audemars Piguet is as seductive a blend of old school and new wave watchmaking as a (very well-off) connoisseur could wish. Chiming the time is as old as mechanical clocks themselves (the word […]

The word “iconic” gets tossed around a lot these days (especially in the watch world) so it’s always great to find a watch that really merits the epithet.  The Royal Oak was, when it was introduced in 1972, a glove thrown down to the entire watch industry: a stainless steel watch, finished as lavishly as […]

Jules, have you lost weight? Looks that way as this Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars timepiece sports a very slim case that is just 6.7-mm in thickness. Few things feel as liberating on the wrist as a mysterious slim mechanical timepiece. I use the term mysterious in this case for a very good reason. The sensible good looks […]

Continuing their partnership with great Formula 1 racers, Swiss Audemars Piguet introduces this limited edition Royal Oak Offshore Jarno Trulli Chronograph watch. Trulli has enjoyed a relationship with Audemars Piguet for a few years and finally joins a short list of great Formula 1 drivers (such as Juan Pablo Montoya and Rubens Barrichello) who receive the honor of having […]