Replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD#2 Calendario perpetuo ultrasottile, la recensione

Always expect a SIHH full of new Royal Oaks. It’s inevitable and I counted 49 in the brand’s press kit. If I had to give priority to one novelty above all, which would allow me to bring back into vogue the “5 minutes in place” column and at the same time give you a first taste of what the Le Brassus manufacturing company has brought to Geneva, I think it is right to drop the choice on the new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD#2 Perpetual Calendar Ultra–Thin.

The name is a bit contradictory, the acronym RD#2 might make you think of something technological, of a cutting-edge collection, but this is not the case. For that there is the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT.

This year the scepter goes to the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD#2 Perpetual Calendar Ultra–Thin and for a series of valid reasons: it is a hymn to the most classic complicated watchmaking, the perpetual calendar is one of the most admired Royal-based complications Oak.
Replica Audemars Piguet has a long tradition in making this complication and the Audemars Piguet caliber 5133 required five years of development to make it the thinnest perpetual calendar on the market.

The case of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD#2 Perpetual Calendar Ultra–Thin is only 6.30mm thick, making it even 2mm thinner than an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Extra–Thin Jumbo thus giving the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD# 2 Perpetual Calendar Ultra–Thin the thinnest perpetual calendar palm in the world.

It is a competition that is good for all watchmaking, for collectors and enthusiasts and which increasingly brings the product back to center stage.
The caliber 5133 descends from the family tree of Audemars Piguet calibers which created its first perpetual calendar in 1955, and it was certainly not inserted in the case of a Royal Oak which arrived more than fifteen years later, but it says a lot about how much this complication is part of the genetic heritage of the manufacture: even a superficial reading of the book that tells the story of Audemars Piguet, kept at the brand’s headquarters in Via Verri, Milan, during the Christmas cocktail, opened my eyes.

Which, the latter, lack a historical reference, such as the positioning of the moon no longer at 6 but at 12. Audemars Piguet Royal Oak RD#2 Perpetual Calendar Ultra–Thin has a platinum case, a wider distribution of counters on the dial, it loses the display of the weeks using an arrow hand and separates the display of the leap year and the day-night indication from the others.
They are both placed on small counters, which are in intersection with the day and month counters and no longer coaxial with them.