Why Are Watch Collectors Gearing Up For The Leap Year in 2020?

For appreciators of haute horlogerie, 2020 is the year they get to see their perpetual calendars do their leap year trick It's a convenience quartz and digital watch wearers take for granted, but it's a serious mechanical undertaking that makes perpetual calendar watches so prized When Audemars Piguet unveiled the RD#2 concept watch in 2018, it was the world's thinnest automatic perpetual calendar watch.

Just a year later, that concept became the actually attainable Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, and it is still the slimmest of its kind In 2017, the watch got the faithfully referenced and appropriately resized reboot it deserved in the Classico Perpetual Ludwig For comparison, Montblanc's excellent Heritage Manufacture Perpetual Calendar from last year has a movement consisting of 378 parts.

Its Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Purity does away with logos and unnecessary indices and sub-dials and leaves only the most important indications on the front-hours, minutes, seconds, date, and power reserve-while the month and leap year are moved to the case back. . Source