We’ve already seen a few new Royal Oak Offshore 25th Anniversary models and a couple new Millenary timepieces, however, this week at SIHH, Audemars Piguet unleashed a whole truckload of new watches ? the most of any brand presenting. We’re going to run through the top eight most notable pieces before going deeper into what else the brand released during the coming weeks (Spoiler alert: there’s a lot of Royal Oaks).
Update: During the SIHH fair, Melanie Feist of our German sister publication watchtime.net interviewed Audemars Piguet CEO François-Henry Bennahmias about the new collection. Check it at the end of this article.
 The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD #2
First up, the Royal Oak RD #2, which is in the running for the most discussed watch of the entire week. Right off the bat, we could tell that this was the hero piece for AP. Coming in hot at 6.3 mm, it lays claim to the title of the world’s thinnest automatic perpetual calendar ever. Not only does it have the great looks and iconic aesthetic that is associated with the Royal Oak, it is also revolutionary for the brand in many respects. AP was able to subsidize the watch from a three-story movement to a single one by combining various functions into single mechanisms. The brand was then able to shrink the rotor down to a minuscule 2.89 mm. Everything else about the watch, from the tapisserie dial, to the moon phase at 12 o’clock (a throwback to the company’s first perpetual calen...