Brand: Audemars Piguet Replica
Series: Royal Oak Offshore
Model: 26571RO.OO.A010CA.01
Dial Color: Skeleton
Dial Indexes: Stick / Dot
Dial Hands: Stick
MBrand:Audemars Piguet
Caliber:AP 2885
Display:Analog
Diameter:31.60 mm
Jewels:52
Reserve:45 h
Frequency:19800 bph
Time:Hours, Minutes, Small Seconds
Date:Date, Day, Month, Perpetual Calendar
Chronograph:Chronograph, Column wheel, Rattrapante
Astronomical:Moonphase
Acoustic:Minute Repeater
What is a “Grande Complication”? The layman would compare it to an intricate maze, whereas a watchmaker would say that a major complication allows a timepiece to reveal more about time. The master watchmaker - a virtuoso of arrangements that might seem improbable to others, enamoured of fine workmanship as well as cutting-edge technology — knows that a Grande Complication takes the finishing process to the limit. Yet again, this proves how the hand of a skilled craftsman makes all the difference. Complications can be classified in three categories.
The first consists of watches with one or several additional hands to indicate the time (e.g. the chronograph, split-seconds and jumping seconds chronographs).
The second contains all watches featuring striking mechanisms.
The third refers to watches with mechanisms that provide astronomical indications (e.g. date,
moon phase and equation of time).
The prestigious " Grande Complication " designation is bestowed upon a watch that possesses at least four different functions out of these three categories. It takes great mastery to create a timepiece offering excellence in every department: design and reliability, as well as precision. The Calibre 2885 by the Manufacture Audemars Piguet is a case in point.
Fourteen lignes in diameter (31.60 mm) and 8.55 mm thick, this self-winding mechanical watch is endowed with a split-seconds chronograph, a minute repeater and a perpetual calendar with moon-phase functions.
Case Glass:Sapphire
Case Back:Open
Case Shape:Other
Case Diameter:44.00 mm
Case Height:15.70 mm
W/R:20.00 m
Audemars Piguet is no stranger to Grande Complications - even the iconic Royal Oak received such movements. But 2013 marked the introduction of the first Royal Oak Offshore with grande complication movement, in the process perhaps creating the first sports watch with such a caliber.
The model presented here has a pink gold case and a smoked sapphire dial. It is fitted with a white rubber strap.