Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT Watch Hands-On

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept has been around since 2002 and has been the canvas for some of the brand's most avant-garde, futuristic-looking haute horology creations The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon GMT came out in 2011 and introduced the basic form that we see continued here The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT actually shares the designation as AP's first flying tourbillon watch with another movement found in the diamond-decked Royal Oak Concept Ladies' Flying Tourbillon that was introduced concurrently for 2018.

Previous Royal Oak Concept watches have used a lot of ceramic and other exotic materials in the movement such as carbon fiber - see our hands-on with the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept GMT Tourbillon with white ceramic here In previous Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon GMT watches, this was indicated by a hand Made of 348 parts and operating at 3Hz, the manually-wound Audemars Piguet calibre 2954 is "New" with its flying tourbillon but shares a lot in common with previous Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon GMT watches, including the same frequency and power reserve - so it is more of an evolution than something totally new.

So why make a flying tourbillon now? To stay competitive in the realm of ultra-luxury sport-style watches like those from Hublot, Richard Mille, and Roger Dubuis, maybe collectors need to be reminded that the Royal Oak Concept can still be fresh and continue to further evolve. . Source