This Audemars Piguet Millenary Quadriennium Replica Watch Ref.26149OR.OO.D803CR.01 has bitten into the off centre dial. A dial that looks decidedly traditional with its roman numerals and exposed screws. The long-running Millenary collection is a space where AP explore a more neo-classical aesthetic than the resolutely contemporary Royal Oak and Royal Oak Offshore lines. The philosophy behind the watch is that it a modern interpretation of a classic timepiece (it is much like the MB&F Legacy Machine in this regard).
The sub seconds dial takes another chunk out the main dial, and the day and month windows add a few more holes. The Millenary collection isn’t what immediately comes to mind when you think of Audemars Piguet. In fact, the unusual oval case shape looks like a watch from a completely different company.
Audemars Piguet’s middle ground is a Audemars Piguet Millenary Replica Watch which is clever enough to make the jump from Feb 28 to March 1 three out of every four years, only needing a guiding hand during leap years, where you have to wind it back to show the 29th of the month.
As you’d expect from AP, this watch has excellent movement finishing, particularly on the large, exposed, proprietary escapement, with big balance wheel and beautifully hand-finished bridge.
This Audemars Piguet Replica Watch features a brand new complication – a Quadriennium. This is a new type of calendar complication that sits in between an annual calendar, which displays the day, date and month and only needs to be adjusted at the end of February, and a perpetual calendar which is smart enough to take oddball February and leap years into account.
There’s just too much going on; the lopsided off centre dial, the exposed plates and screws, the mix of roman numerals and Arabics, the differently sized day and month windows, the pusher at two. All this is jammed into a large (47mm) oval case that doesn’t seem to know if it’s classic or contemporary.
While the Audemars Piguet Watch Replica is a novel idea that I can see gaining some wider traction for AP the package as a whole doesn’t work for me. It’s a complicated looking, aesthetically busy watch, and that’s before we even get to the complication.
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