Audemars Piguet

I'm still getting used to this place so forgive me if I misses a dedicated vintage forum. Do many of you have vintage APs? I was fortunate a few months back to stumble into this 1971 caliber K2120 reference 5279 for sale....  

...ENJOY! Back in the mid '80s and '90s I had only vintage watches, including a thin18K Audemars with the same caliber movement as yours. But I sold almost all of my vintage collection in the '90s including the Audemars, two Vacherons, a Patek, seven Role... 

It's a fact that the hunt is half the fun, sometimes more. I don't understand why I have no patience for most things in life, but I can stalk a particular model watch for a year or two until the exactly right one pops up. Nice story on your watch collecti... 

Thanks for posting your AP. I am sorry that you have not gotten more responses thus far. I do not have any vintage APs, myself. My oldest is a Royal Oak from 1995, which does not qualify as vintage yet. Your AP interests me. For whatever reason, I thought... 

Here's a link to an old WatchTime article on 4 AP references including the 5279: www.watchtime.at According to that, the 5279 was introduced in 1967 but I couldn't tell you if the 2120/2121 was used before then. I wear it maybe 3 times a month and I bough...  

...photo of that rotor roller jewel. Interesting detail that I've not seen before. Thanks.

I did know that the cal 2120/2121 was developed and made starting in 1967, but I was not aware of its actual use in watches other than the Royal Oak and by Vacheron before 1972. So nice that you use it regularly in your rotation and that it has remained i... 

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In the lat sixties customers wanted slimmer watches. So - i think it was in 1967- AP launched the flattest automatic caliber of this era. The same does Vacheron Constantin at the same time with cal. 1120. Both based on a movement from Jaeger Le Coultre. T... 

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was used before the Royal Oak (in reply to Respo, which is obvious from the existence of your watch, LOL!) by AP and in fact took pride of place as "the thinnest full rotor automatic movement in the world" at the time of its launch, which it retains to th... 

I hear the sound of the rotor winding often when it's dead quiet at work. It is almost like a metal on metal sound, as if two flat sheets of steel were sliding around on each other. One other thing - the Jean Lasalle 360? rotor automatic caliber 2000 from... 

Good point; I should have written "thinnest full rotor automatic THAT ACTUALLY WORKS RELIABLY ever made..."

I probably need help. ;-) Thanks, Thomas for providing all of this info on teh movement with the updates. You are such a great resource for us. Best always, respo

...obviously my assumption that the 2225 is a newer version was incorrect, so I appreciate your post. Here's the caliber 2225 in the first generation Millenary:...  

hard core movement nuts hanging around in here, me included... The 2x24/2x25 series of movements, based on the JLC 889 series, is now on its 3rd generation - 2125 2225 2325 so your Millenary movement is the second generation from that movement family. The...