Audemars Piguet

Ancienne Le Brassus
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Thanks for your comments

Thanks for responding, and for enjoying the watch.
    What I find charming about these APs, especially those from 1930-1944 are that they represent watches from a time when AP produced very few watches. I guess it's the 'story' behind them, the many tribulations AP was going through, and subsequently the scant production that somehow combines with my appreciation of the beauty of how they finished theses VZ movements that does it for me. From the other threads about Kari's work and people interested in the history of the Peseux movements... I guess the same for me and these AP

    Yet the pocket watches that AP did in the 1920s are for me the epitome of high finishing for the swiss market. The way they drilled the jewel wells, the olivate jewels, the finishing of the pallet fork, etc. etc. etc! Are IMHO never repeated again and still unsurpassed to this day. I'll see if I take out some of these old PW's and photograph them with my macro lens soon and prove to you what I mean   These watches were completely finished by hand and one cannot come to compare for example, the beautiful bevel the bridges were given, to the ones made with CNC machines of most companies today (including the majority of recent normal production AP's) which are simply 45 degree bevels, with no softness, giving no glimmer to the movement. It's a different aesthetic basically, were are now in the industrial 'tough' aesthetic, vs. the old aesthetic of the movement as a veritable 'jewel' to enchant the viewer... this trend was already started back in the mid 1940s: compare for example the screws and the countersink's they're given in this amazing 1961 movement vs the one's you see in the 1943 model I posted... gives you an idea of the aesthetic shift I'm thinking of.

   As to the AP's from the 50s-60s they're gems through and through! JLC movements that when compared to VC's using the same cal's.... I will not offend anybody to say who's finishing I prefer most

Enjoy your weekend,
Sebastian