GRACEFUL GOLDEN BEIGE
Celebrating its 150th anniversary, the Vallée de Joux watchmaker kicks off the 2025 season with a wise-looking timepiece in golden beige, delicately disturbed by the rapid dance of the prestigious regulator.
From 1875 to 2025, in its 150 years of existence, Audemars Piguet, an association of the surnames of its two founders, Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet, has maintained the mission it set itself at the outset: to explore complex mechanisms. Among the new products unveiled in the first half of the year, the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Tourbillon Volant Automatique watch, with its monochrome accents, highlights this tireless desire to innovate.
Not only does this timepiece feature sand gold, a special alloy based on gold, copper and platinum that oscillates between pink and gray depending on the light and was introduced in 2024, but it also houses a flying tourbillon for the first time in a 38mm-diameter case whose case middle-horn-crown assembly is lined with 235 brilliant-cut diamonds.
On its dial, stamped with the concentric-circle motif created in 2023 and coated in golden-beige PVD, the flying tourbillon twirls in its small titanium cage at 6 o’clock, rotating for 60 seconds, while luminescent sand-gold hands in the center display the hours and minutes. This model is powered by Calibre 2968, an automatic movement developed in 2022 and then adapted to suit the dimensions of the case, which beats at the gentle frequency of 3hz and delivers an energy power reserve of 50 hours when fully wound via its openworked oscillating weight, also in sand gold. It is attached to the wrist by two strands of beige, large-scaled alligator leather linked to a folding clasp set with 42 precious stones.
