{"product_id":"audemars-piguet-millenary-frosted-gold-philosophique-as12784","title":"Audemars Piguet Millenary 'Frosted Gold' Philosophique","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is something wonderfully contrarian about a complicated mechanical watch that deliberately refuses to tell you the exact time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntroduced in 2019, the Audemars Piguet Millenary Frosted Gold Philosophique revisits an idea AP first explored in 1982: a watch designed to loosen our obsession with minutes and seconds. Inspired by single-hand timepieces dating back centuries, the Philosophique does away with both entirely. One hand indicates the approximate hour, making it beside the point whether it’s 3:12 or 3:17. For a manufacture capable of extraordinary precision, that feels almost rebellious.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe unusual display is perfectly suited to the Millenary’s distinctive architecture. Its 39.5mm x 35.4mm oval case is rendered in 18K pink gold and treated with AP’s dramatic Frosted Gold finish, created by repeatedly striking the surface with a diamond-tipped tool to produce thousands of tiny facets. Rather than relying on gemstones, the textured surface catches and scatters light, giving the gold an almost crystalline appearance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat texture continues on the hammered brown dial, where the dark, irregular surface provides a rich contrast against slender pink-gold hour markers. The lone pink-gold hand appears deceptively simple, but its journey around the dial is anything but. Because the Millenary is elliptical rather than round, Audemars Piguet developed a patented mechanism that alters the hand’s speed and trajectory as it travels around the oval display.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePowering everything is the automatic Calibre 3140, an in-house movement offering approximately 50 hours of power reserve. Visible through the sapphire exhibition caseback, it provides a mechanical counterpoint to the deliberate simplicity on the front.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis example is paired with a brown square-scale alligator leather strap and an 18K pink-gold pin buckle, and comes as a complete set with its inner and outer boxes, warranty card, papers, and pamphlets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Philosophique is a rather clever contradiction: considerable mechanical ingenuity devoted to telling you less. In a world increasingly obsessed with measuring every second, there’s something luxurious about a watch that suggests the hour is close enough.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audemars Piguet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44271639920727,"sku":"40993524","price":21500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/files\/AS12784_40993524_AUDEMARSPIGUET_MILLENARYPHILOSOPHIQUE_77266OR.GG.A823CR.01-5.jpg?v=1790249400","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/audemars-piguet-millenary-frosted-gold-philosophique-as12784","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}