Audemar Piguet's New Watch Is an Actual Proper Masterpiece

Swiss watches - an industry worth billions and billions and billions - has built an empire on a single word: craftsmanship It continues to use that very word to place itself at the apex of the watch business in its entirety Swiss watches use 'craftsmanship' because they actually apply craftsmanship.

As part of the wider Code 11.59 collection - the sort of watches that really need their own insurance policy - the Carillon Supersonnerie set out to better what many consider to be some of the best watches What's more, it took eight years of research in tandem with Lausanne's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology to move the workings of a hi-spec pocketwatch into a wrist watch format The end result is a watch that uses three gongs and hammers to chime, unlike the usual pairing in most other watches.

Because this isn't a regular watch, or even a regular Sonnerie watch. . Source