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Hi respo
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 bought it from another forum's sales corner. Couldn't tell you how many have owned it before me, but AP told me it was first sold in 1971 according to their records. They also had no record of service being done which jives with the lack of any marking inside the caseback. It went immediately to my watchmaker so I could add it to the rotation. It's 32 mm across excluding the crown and about 37 mm lug tip to lug tip. It's so light I almost forget I'm wearing it sometimes. Dumb luck that it's white gold too - most were yellow. My watchmaker told me the rotor revolves on 4 roller jewels that can't be seen unless the automatic assembly is removed:
This movement has the free-sprung Gyromax balance which you can see a little of in this picture:
Great watch...
By: Emil Wojcik : June 28th, 2011-16:20
...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...
Thanks Emil.
By: ulackfocus : June 28th, 2011-18:22
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...
Very interesting
By: respo : June 28th, 2011-18:19
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...
Hi respo
By: ulackfocus : June 28th, 2011-20:12
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...
movement launched in 1967
By: only5402 : June 28th, 2011-22:20
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...
thanks Thomas.
By: ulackfocus : June 30th, 2011-11:29
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...
