Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon and Chronograph "Concept Carbon"

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon and Chronograph "Concept Carbon", Ref. 26265FO.OO.D002CR.01
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Calibre AP 2895

Royal Oak Tourbillon and Chronograph "Concept Carbon" is a concept watch by Audemars Piguet.

At the SIHH in 2008, Audemars Piguet presented this avant-garde concept version of the Royal Oak: an extra-light manual winding chronograph movement with tourbillon, where both the case as well as the movement are manufactured from forged carbon fiber.

Case dimension: 44 mm. Newly constructed manual winding calibre AP 2895: 34 jewels, 384 components, power reserve 237 hours.

Reference:

26265FO.OO.D002CR.01

Movement:

Manual winding Calibre AP 2895, 21,600 A/h
Chronograph and tourbillon
15 1/3 lignes
Chamfered and polished by hand, with brush finish, shot-blasted
Plate in carbon, bridges in anodized aluminium
Two fast-turning barrels
34 jewels
384 components
Power reserve 237 hours

Case:

Forged carbon
D 44 mm, H 15.85 mm
Front bezel in ceramic
Back bezel in titanium with black PVD
Sapphire crystal, caseback with sapphire crystal
Waterproof to 100 m

Dial:

Dial layer integrated in movement
Minute circle with luminous hours and white minute indexes
Hours and minutes hand skeletonized and luminous

Functions:

Hours, minutes
Chronograph with linear minutes counter and central stop seconds
Power reserve indicator
Function selector: The indications H, N, R show the positions of the winding stem: N means Neutral (neutre), R Winding (remontage) and H Adjust (mise à l’heure).

Bracelet:

Alligator leather, hand-sewn, AP folding clasp in titanium