Wanderlust: Introducing the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Starwheel
Audemars Piguet is ending the watch year 2022 on a high note: The Swiss tradition manufacture from Le Brassus breathes new life into the “wandering hours,” a rare and ancient complication that dates back to the 17th century. Its clever mechanism displays the hours using a system of satellites that gravitate along a minute scale arranged in the form of an arc.
The new Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Starwheel is not the first timepiece by the Swiss luxury manufacture, though. In fact, the brand’s Ref. 25720, released in 1991 at the height of the mechanical renaissance and today sought-after by collectors, featured a wandering hours display.
The new Starwheel edition is a continuation of the models from the 1990s and housed in the signature Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet case. Crafted from white gold and black ceramic, it has a diameter of 41mm and a thickness of 10.7mm.
Blue aventurine serves as a shimmering backdrop for the three discs that rotate on their own axes. Slightly domed, they are made of aluminum and tinted black thanks to a PVD treatment, before being adorned with an opaline sandblasted finishing touch. The white wandering hours numerals are then transferred onto the dial. Following the contemporary design, the 120-degree minute sector, which extends in an arc from 10 to 2 o?clock, and the inner bezel, are both black with white minute indications.
On the dial side, the double-curved sapphire crystal magnifies both the ...
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