As part of its 150th anniversary celebrations, Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer Audemars Piguet has dropped its 2025 first semester novelties. The trio of timepieces combine ergonomics, performance, and aesthetic harmony.
A pair of perpetual calendars and a tourbillon make up the first batch of 2025 novelties from Audemars Piguet. All three models exude exquisite craftsmanship, a stunning design and high-quality watchmaking that the brand is renowned for.
Looking to the future, the three exemplary pieces help define where Audemars Piguet is heading towards. However, it also displays the technical expertise the watchmaker possesses when it comes to building high complication timepieces.
For Audemars Piguet fans, any of these three novelties for 2025 will make a perfect addition to their AP collection. Here’s a brief run down on each.
AUDEMARS PIGUET’S NEW PERPETUAL CALENDAR
A forward-looking piece, the brand has rethought the perpetual calendar by mechanically reproducing the movement of celestial bodies. With ergonomics at its heart, the new piece adapts to evolving lifestyles and open up new technical and design avenues. The result of this is an intuitive complication that revolutionises the perpetual calendar experience while improving legibility.
A new-generation Calibre 7138 enhances user comfort by allowing the wearer to adjust all functions via its “all-in-one” crown. The self-winding perpetual calendar movement makes its debut on a 41mm Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet in 18-carat white gold, and on two 41mm Royal Oak models in stainless steel or 18-carat sand gold. Following five years of development this horological feat is now protected by five patents and offers new creative horizons.
LIMITED-EDITION ROYAL OAK PERPETUAL CALENDAR OPENWORKED
Part of the 2025 first semester novelties from Audemars Piguet is also a new Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Openworked “150th Anniversary” limited edition. Reflecting the brand’s rich legacy in design, material and technical exploration, this timepiece will be the very last to be equipped with Calibre 5135. The Manufacturer is bidding farewell to the movement that has powered its 41mm openworked selfwinding perpetual calendar wristwatches for nearly a decade.
As for this new limited-edition timepiece, the high-tech combination of titanium and Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG) on both the case and bracelet creates a sophisticated contrast with the dial’s vintage aesthetic. The design takes inspiration from a pocket watch exhibited in the Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet (reference 25729). This limited edition of 150 pieces embraces design codes developed specifically for the anniversary, which will extend to other pieces from this year’s offering.
CODE 11.59 BY AUDEMARS PIGUET FLYING TOURBILLON IN 38 MM
For 150 years, Audemars Piguet has been beating to the tune of complicated mechanisms. Driven by a shared passion and dedication to precision, generations of talented watchmakers and craftspeople have worked together to push the boundaries of their craft, producing complicated timepieces in a wide range of sizes and creative aesthetics.
To celebrate this enduring legacy, the Manufacture is expanding its range of complicated models with a 38mm Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon. Featuring a shimmering monochrome design that interweaves 18-carat sand gold with brilliant-cut diamonds. It is also the first selfwinding flying tourbillon to be offered by the Manufacture in this diameter.
Rather interestingly, it also houses the ultra-thin RD#3 movement – Calibre 2968 – seamlessly combining a sophisticated aesthetic with state-of-the-art performance. Building on the brand’s uncompromising approach to fine watchmaking, the timepiece heralds a new generation of smaller Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet complications blending traditional craftsmanship, cutting-edge technology, and timeless refinement.
