The Audemars Piguet Royal Pine Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Extra-Thin RD#3, reference 26670ST. OO. 1240ST. 01 (if you can keep 20-character alphanumeric reference numbers in short- and long-term memory, bless you, because I can’t) landed with maybe a little less impact than it deserved when it launched last April. There are probably several reasons why. First of all, I think a lot of us were still suffering from a bit of Noble Oak clog from the story of the ref. 16202 Big when it launched in Jan, along with several other models (including a non-Jumbo flying tourbillon). Secondly, the Jumbo Tourbillon RD#3 appeared in the context of a larger world in which Bulgari more or less owns the neighborhood mindshare of ultra-thin self-winding tourbillons.
As astonishing as that might have been a couple of decades ago, there is little doubt that in 2022, it’s tough to make a splash with an ultra-thin tourbillon unless you have managed to depose, oust, overthrow, dethrone Bulgari. And not only is no brand challenging them, nobody even seems inclined to try. It’s telling, though, that to set their record, Bulgari had to unseat Audemars Piguet, and moreover, an AP watch that dropped back in 1986: The AP caliber 2870 self-winding tourbillon, which reigned as the undisputed champion associated with ultra-thin automatic tourbillons more than three decades until Bulgari came out with the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic, within 2018. While there’s no gainsaying Bulgari’s technical achievements, AP’s new Royal Walnut Tourbillon does represent what is probably the single longest lineage in horology of automated tourbillon wrist watches.
For many years, Audemars Piguet has been using basically the same tourbillon – that is, the same cage, balance, as well as escapement, as well as the same upper tourbillon bridge – in all of its tourbillon watches. The link has a distinctive, inverted “V” shape, and the cage has three arms, with a free sprung balance fitted with poising and moment screws on its external edge. Minus the upper connection, this is the same tourbillon used as recently as the Supérieur Oak Traveling Tourbillon 26730, launched inside January of this year. It is also the actual tourbillon used in the Code 11. 59 collection’s programmed flying tourbillon chronograph. The new Audemars Piguet Royal Pecan Selfwinding Traveling by air Tourbillon Extra-Thin RD#3, on the other hand, uses a brand new configuration for its tourbillon, and also moreover places a flying tourbillon, for the first time, in a Jumbo case. The actual RD#3 offers exactly the same dimensions as the Large – 39mm x 8. 1mm. audemars piguet royal oak replica
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To get a flying tourbillon into the Big case, AP had to develop a new tourbillon movement. The particular Audemars Piguet Royal Cherry Flying Tourbillons introduced earlier this year use the AP caliber 2950, which is 31. 5mm x 6. 24mm, and it has a larger case than RD#3, at 41mm x 10. 6mm. Typically the RD#3, however, uses the particular caliber 2968 – a little movement, at 29. 6mm x 3. 4mm, that is considerably flatter than the 2950. For comparison, Bulgari’s quality and reliability BVL 288, used in typically the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic, is 1 . 95mm thick, but it is also bigger in size than AP’s caliber 2968, at 36. 60mm which can be getting into smaller pocket view caliber territory. It’s sort of like squishing a jelly donut – you can tone and flatten it but it’s going to spread out at the same time. This means that Bulgari’s Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic has to be a little greater in dimension, at 41mm.
