They have put together quite a team at AP so I'm hopeful there will be a new book at some point, perhaps a detailed catalogue of the museum collection. Nick
A recent article on the AP website ('Stopping time: the vintage Audemars Piguet chronographs', 3 October) is headed by photographs of a truly wonderful watch in their museum: a yellow gold triple calendar chronograph with phases of the moon, no. 45589, made in 1941. A very rare watch, certainly, but
Hi Sebastian I read that C.H. Meylan is the one brand collected by Georges-Henri Meylan, formerly MD of Audemars Piguet: http://www.thepurists.com/watch/features/interviews/MeylanApr04/index.htm . NickP
Thank you so much for all those observations. Like me you have clearly spent many hours with the AP book looking for connections and patterns and trying to wring out every last drop of history from the images and numbers. Until yesterday I hadn't given much thought to the question of the letters nex
Hi Sebastian Thanks for all the pictures and info. I love that style of lettering on many of the pre-1950s AP movements - do you know what the "B" denoted underneath the movement number? Best regards NickP
Hi Does anyone know what happened to the 5104 after it was launched at Basel 2006 to a rather mixed reception? It isn't on the PP website and I can't recall when, if ever, I saw it there over the last two years. I was wondering whether most of those who could order one, didn't! Regards NickP