Audemars Piguet skilfully masters the delicate and fine art of skeletonising and gives new proof of its savoir-faire in the latest rendition of the Royal Oak 'Jumbo' Extra Skeletonised White Gold.
Skeletonising in watchmaking is an ancient artof unquestionable aesthetic and formal beauty: a technique capable of reducing the movement structure to a fine spider's webwith patient and meticulous work carried out on the bridges and the plate. Traditionally, it is only carried out by very experienced technicians, because they are able to assess to what extent the metal can be removed to prevent the piece becoming deformed or losing its functionality, becoming too fragile. Audemars Piguet introduced it on the Royal Oak in the 1990salthough the first skeletonised Royal Oak was actually a pendant model in 1981.
The first skeletonised Jumbo was made in 1992, followed by several other versions until 2000. After a return in 2010 in a version with a 4.31 mm thick automatic calibre 3129, and in 2012 of a 40th anniversary version of the Royal Oak with calibre 5122, theThe Royal Oak 'Jumbo' Extra Skeleton Platter is back in 2022 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the collection, equipped with the 7124 calibre, first in pink gold, then in steel and then in yellow gold. Audemars Piguet now offers a new version in white gold.
Shades of grey for the Royal Oak 'Jumbo' Extra-Flat Skeletonised
The ultra-thin 7124 calibre is produced in-house at the Audemars Piguet manufacture.
The Royal Oak 'Jumbo' Extra-Flat Skeleton in white gold has retained the aesthetics of the original Royal Oak launched by Audemars Piguet in 1972. The 39 mm case and bracelet are hand-finished with vertical satin-finishing and mirror-polished bevels. For the sake of readability, the flange is a little darker than the movement, treated with different shades of anthracite grey that create a contrast with the white gold of the case.
The movement shown through the dial is the automatic calibre 7124which is based on the new-generation IWC-manufactured calibre 7121, introduced in the Jumbo with a closed dial on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Royal Oak. Reduced to a minimum by skeletonisation, it also has a skeletonised oscillating mass. The power reserve is 57 hours. The thickness of the movement is 2.7 mm, while the total thickness of the watch is 8.1 mm.
Royal Oak Jumbo: a bracelet totally integrated into the case middle
The integrated bracelet type in luxury sports watches was introduced in 1972 by Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak.
The integrated bracelet is also made of white gold. Absolutely flexible, but at the same time rigid, the bracelet of the Royal Oak must be regarded as an extremely sophisticated structure, made of components that are all different from each other. Made in decreasing sizes, so as not to make the watch unnecessarily heavy, they are subdivided into seven different sizes, alternating the links with the joining elements. Naturally each individual link is machined, drilled, polished and checked so that it fits perfectly with the whole, without leaving gaps or differences in level. The Royal Oak 'Jumbo' Extra-Flat Skeleton in white gold will be available from April.
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