25654ST, Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar, Salmon Dial, Steel Rattrapante and innumerable difficult-to-manufacture finishing choices

and innumerable difficult-to-manufacture finishing choices

The Balancier Contemporain is an exercise in chronometry

highly engineered ‘grenade’ rubber strap

This DB27 features an opened caseback with technically innovative balance on display

an early production made from 2003 until 2010 with a grey dial in a pink gold case

25654ST, Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar, Salmon Dial, Steel Rattrapante and innumerable difficult-to-manufacture finishing choicesA ref. 25654ST with a special request salmon dial, one of just a handful made. This is one of 315 examples of the 25654 in steel. The 25654 was Audemars Piguet's effort at blending high watchmaking complication with the utilitarian and disruptive Royal Oak case. Its production, alongside the ref. 5554, comprises the core of pre leap year Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar collecting. The 25654 embodies everything modern Audemars Piguet holds dear: bravery