A new Royal Oak in collaboration with a musician: John Mayer gives his personal touch to Audemars Piguet's classic perpetual calendar. And it marks the swan song of the historic 5134 calibre.
The Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar John Mayer, in a limited edition of 200, is the result of a collaboration between the brand and the American singer-songwriterwinner of seven Grammy Awards and a great watch enthusiast. The case (41 mm in diameter and 9.5 mm thick) and bracelet are in white gold.
For the look of the dial, the technicians Audemars Piguet followed the musician's instructions: 'My favourite watches have dials that can be looked at endlessly. The dial of a big watch is like a panoramic window'. And the result is indeed something very much like an open porthole to a deep blue starry sky. The striking sparkling effect was achieved by electroforming, a galvanic process with which even very irregular surfaces and non-conducting material can be evenly coated.
A special dial for the Royal Oak for John Mayer
'Crystal Sky': Audemars Piguet brings to life a texture that almost looks like a natural crystal.
The result in the case of the dial of the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar John Mayer is a background that looks like a carpet of crystals, not by chance christened 'Crystal Sky' by Audemars Piguet. The indicators, also blue, but with a microgroove finish, are arranged in the classic pattern, with the day at 9 o'clock, the month and leap year at 12 o'clock, the date at 3 o'clock, and the moon phase with aventurine background at 6 o'clock.
John Mayer was also responsible for the choice of blue for the central hand indicating the number of the current weekprinted on the inclined flange, and the 31 on the date stampno longer in red, but in white and smaller in size to distinguish it from the adjacent 1.
Audemars Piguet: a final tribute to a historical movement
The Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar 'John Mayer' is the latest limited edition with calibre 5134.
Another detail that gives Audemars Piguet's Perpetual Calendar John Mayer an almost historical importance (and which increases its appeal to collectors), is that st is the last model equipped with the 5134 calibre before it is discontinued. The movement in this configuration was born in 2015just 4.5 mm thick, 29 mm in diameter, 19,800 vib/h, 38 jewels, 374 components and 40 hours of power reserve.
But lhe roots go back to the calibre 2120 of 1967, the famous ultra-thin (2.45 mm thick) movement produced by Jaeger-LeCoultre, which in the 1970s and 1990s formed the basis for the development of other complicationssuch as the skeleton chronograph of 1980, the first self-winding wristwatch tourbillon of 1986, the minute repeater of 1992 and the Grande Complication of 1996. "Calibre 5134 will go down in history as the one that defined an era of watch collecting," said John Mayer.
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