Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Equation Of Time New York Limited Edition

Reference 25934OR/O/7567OR/01

Rose Gold

Black Dial

Case Size: 39mm

Alligator Strap

Complete: Box, Papers, Original Hang Tag, Book, DVD

The Equation of Time is one of the rarest and most demanding complications in classical watchmaking — and this specific New York limited edition is among the rarest expressions of it ever made. Here is what the watch actually does: a central hand tipped with a gold miniature sun sweeps across an inner ring graduated from minus 15 to plus 15 minutes, displaying the difference between mean civil time and true solar time, which varies continuously throughout the year as the earth moves along its elliptical orbit. This correction cannot be approximated — it requires a precisely shaped mechanical cam that physically replicates the equation of time for every day of the year. Paired alongside this is a full perpetual calendar displaying day, date, month, moon phase, and leap year, running correctly until the year 2100. At 9 and 3 o'clock, two further sub-dials show the precise time of sunrise and sunset. And critically, every one of these displays is calibrated specifically to New York's latitude and longitude — not to a generic city, not to a generic solar model, but to this city. Audemars Piguet was the first watchmaker to integrate city-specific equation of time, sunrise, and sunset into a wristwatch. The New York edition is a limited production made exclusively for this market. In rose gold with a black guilloché dial, this is a watch of five genuine complications at the highest level of the craft. The collector who has not yet discovered the Jules Audemars collection is looking at one of the most significant value opportunities in high horology: AP's full horological capability, without the Royal Oak premium.