Audemars Piguet

An answer to a question nobody was asking...

Jun 06, 2019,10:27 AM

The idea behind this watch was great, making it the THINNEST perpetual on the market today, but why? Why did it have to be the thinnest? Why did they need to stretch the case to 41mm? Why couldn't they have just slimmed the case down to the size of the 15202 instead? I would have much rather seen them shrink the case size to 39mm or 40mm and the case to 8mm (Just a tad slimmer than the 5740G and 15202) with the elimination of the week counter and a similar dial layout to the current 26574... I do think the non tappiserie dial was a great choice contrary to what everyone else seems to think but all in all the dial layout just seems sporadic.The 41mm case size paired with the ultra slim case just makes for very odd proportions on this watch unfortunately. All that being said, I will reserve my judgement until I see one in the metal (hopefully) as always.

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So what do you think of the final version of the RD2 perpetual calendar

By: Mohannad (aka Riddler) : June 5th, 2019-16:15

Interesting the change of the dial going without the signature Tapisserie pattern ...

Thanks for posting - missing the tapisserie but you'd really have to see in the metal. [nt]

By: Francoamerican : June 5th, 2019-16:22

From AP website

By: Mohannad (aka Riddler) : June 5th, 2019-16:25

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Thanks!

By: Spangles - Dr. Tabby : June 5th, 2019-16:42

Serious executive decision making on the dial for what is likely going to be a better watch in the metal.

Total nonsense marketing

By: Rapwatch : June 6th, 2019-00:38

It makes no difference to legibility. The tapisserie is only on negative space. More likely they ran into clearance tolerance issues in the total stack height in production and use this as the excuse. Rapwatch

Not bad...will be excited to see this one. BUT...

By: mdg : June 5th, 2019-18:06

...would prefer to see the leap year indicator move in a clock-wise direction. Which leads me to wonder, does the day/night indicator move clock-wise? If not, it’s a bit of a blunder.

I prefer the prototype

By: logan2z : June 5th, 2019-19:36

Odd choice to remove the tapisserie dial.

Agree. Understand about legibility but It's like they're not exerting effort to build the watch.

By: jomni1 : June 5th, 2019-20:03

Just like the plain dial of the CODE series.

Isn't also a difference in the case treatment? I see a less brushed treatment on the definitive watch. [nt]

By: amanico : June 5th, 2019-23:21

An obvious cop out

By: xxn : June 6th, 2019-00:35

The original quantime perpetual calendar had no issues applying tapisserire dial with so called legibility issues

Check out @horoloupe on IG I believe it could be the first delivery of the RD2

By: Mohannad (aka Riddler) : June 6th, 2019-02:54

He posted a video check it out

here is horoloupe pic... it's mirror finished bezel...

By: edo.k : June 6th, 2019-04:58

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It reminds me of the VC PC ultra thin [nt]

By: Mohannad (aka Riddler) : June 6th, 2019-05:05

Good point... [nt]

By: edo.k : June 6th, 2019-06:08

If you're going to mirror polish it....

By: watchme : June 6th, 2019-08:47

why not just make the bezel tungsten carbide so that it isn't a scratch magnet? -Dean

Amen Brother

By: farkbinder01212 : June 6th, 2019-12:04

My thoughts exactly.

If they ever make this in carbon fiber...

By: mdg : June 6th, 2019-23:04

...would that help the scratch issue? Am sure it will add cost.

I can’t fault it , but I feel like they removed a part of the DNA . [nt]

By: ZSHSZ : June 6th, 2019-05:07

An answer to a question nobody was asking...

By: HorologyMiami : June 6th, 2019-10:27

The idea behind this watch was great, making it the THINNEST perpetual on the market today, but why? Why did it have to be the thinnest? Why did they need to stretch the case to 41mm? Why couldn't they have just slimmed the case down to the size of the 15...

Agree...39mm would be fine. [nt]

By: mdg : June 6th, 2019-23:03

Agree 100%. Not sure why AP keeps shying away from 39mm. The new chrono and now the QPs... Maybe we need to buy vintage? [nt]

By: mr : June 7th, 2019-02:12

Or a group buy : ) [nt]

By: mdg : June 7th, 2019-10:29

Geico I mean AP just saved me a lot of money :) [nt]

By: redcorals : June 6th, 2019-10:50

To me the prototype looks like the finished product and vice versa.. [nt]

By: Centurionone : June 9th, 2019-03:06

I have to say...

By: BABKA : June 9th, 2019-17:27

...I prefer the waffle dial more so. It has more glimmer and beautiful to stare at than a flat dial.