Audemars Piguet
For its latest limited-edition series of exceptional watches, Audemars Piguet has partnered with Anita Porchet, who specialises in paillonné enamel dials, which involve tucking pieces of foil between layers of enamel. Porchet has designed faces for three of the five watches in the series. The remaining two are reserved for custom orders and are likely to sell for several hundred thousand US dollars.
Powering the Grande Sonnerie Carillon Supersonnerie is the handwound Calibre 2956, a new movement that makes complex mechanisms look like child’s play. This calibre not only strikes the hour, quarters and minutes on request (which a traditional minute repeater would do), it also strikes the hour and quarter by default, without any involvement from the wearer. Plus, the carillon instrument means that these watches are fitted with three gongs and hammers instead of two, resulting in a more impactful sound.
Girard-Perregaux
