From the lightning chronograph to the perpetual calendar, from the chronograph to the moon phase display, there is also a "big complex function" that integrates multiple functions. Talented watchmakers continue to inherit and carry forward the tradition of Audemars Piguet and have won numerous impressive achievements.
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1, minute repeater
Your valley watchmaker's leading specialty is the production of watches, which can tell time and music. In fact, Jules Audemar's father and grandfather have started to make these mechanical devices. Therefore, when the Audemars piguet brand came out, it naturally took an active part in the design of this kind of watches, and made every effort to constantly innovate and improve this complex function, which usually contains more than 400 parts.
This complex function contains the most parts, usually more than 400. The three-question function tells the time with the musical sound made by the hammer hitting the hardened steel reed. According to the wearer's requirements, it can continuously tap the bass reed to report the time, tap the low/high reed to report the engraving, and tap the high reed to report the minutes after the last quarter.
2. perpetual calendar
The design and manufacture of perpetual calendar watches is the cornerstone of the cooperation between Jules LouisAudemars and Edward Auguste Piguet in 1875. This type of timepiece is a major feature of the brand's current works.
The perpetual calendar is undoubtedly one of the main complex functions that Audemars Piguet is proficient in. It can display the week, month and year, and also consider the different days of each month and leap year. This means that the wearer does not need to make any manual adjustment before 265438+March 1 2000.
3, two seconds after the needle timing function
The chronograph is equipped with auxiliary mechanical device, which can measure and display continuous or discontinuous time span without affecting the normal chronograph function of the watch. The second hand of the central chronograph can start, stop or restart at any time, and then press one or more buttons to return to zero immediately. This is not only a practical function in daily life, but also a very sophisticated and complicated function technically.
Some chronographs superimpose a larger chronograph pointer on the first pointer, which is used to measure elapsed time and compare timekeeping. Louis Frederic Perrelet, a Swiss watchmaker, applied for the patent of needle-chasing function in 1827. Since then, the chronograph has become one of Jules Audemars' specialties. Because its silent mechanism is an indispensable part of the classic "large-scale complex function watch", Audemars Piguet has been producing this kind of needle tracking device, which has become an immortal masterpiece of the brand. Audemars piguet integrated other functions into the chronograph, and developed the No.81 wristwatch with tourbillon and minute repeater functions.
4. Taubilin rotating mechanism
Tourbillon is a device used to correct the speed error caused by the gravity of the earth when the watch is vertical. It consists of a mobile structure including all escapement parts, which is located in the center. The tourbillon frame rotates once every minute to compensate the speed error to the vertical position. This ingenious and complicated mechanical device is one of the most exquisitely designed mechanical combinations in the history of watchmaking. Tourbillon can counteract the influence of gravity, thus improving the accuracy of the movement. It makes the whole escapement system rotate at a preset rhythm.
As one of the complicated functions of timekeeping, Audemars Piguet tourbillon mastered this exquisite skill as early as 1986, and released the world's first ultra-thin tourbillon with self-winding (including a watch case of only 5.5mm).
Tourbillon produced by Audemars Piguet is exquisite in workmanship. Some weigh only a few grams, but they contain more than 60 parts. Tourbillon is very beautiful, so it is often displayed on the transparent back cover.