Audemars Piguet Millenary Minute Repeater Watch
For 2011 one of Audemars Piguet's exotic complication pieces will be this Millenary Minute Repeater watch. I was told by Audemars Piguet that their Millenary line is undergoing an overhaul. Looks like 2011 will not be the year we see new Millenary cases and style, but we will see this sophisticated Minute Repeater with another interesting balance wheel and escapement device.The terminology throws me off a bit. There are terms like "AP Exhaust Pulse Direct." Not sure what that is, but it sounds like something from a race car, not timepiece. Previous to this new movement, Audemars Piguet showed off its AP Escapement. That escapement was really fast, to allow for greater accuracy. The AP Escapement was one that they developed to run at something like 72,000 bpm (amazing). Here in the Millenary Minute Repeater, the movement has slower 21,600 bpm movement, but AP uses one of those trendy new "double balance spring." These are pretty neat and are supposed to help cancel out error making the

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Got my Diver back from APSC. Work done under warranty and got supplemental two years warranty. Came in double boxed, priority overnight, and the watch plastic wrapped as if it came new. Got to give Betsy and the rest of the team two thumbs up! Although the watch is running +2 seconds in a 1/4 of a day (approximately +8 seconds a day I will update on how it goes in the bext 24 hours). Was sent in for 15+ seconds a day. A letter explained that the movement was reoilded. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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