CODE 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked Red Gold / Black

In Context

At 41 mm it is sized to the current mainstream: 40 mm is the median across every watch measured in this catalogue. The case back is open, so the movement is visible without taking the watch apart, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse.

The movement is hand-wound, so winding it becomes part of the day rather than something the watch does for you. 80 hours of reserve puts it well past a weekend — several days off the wrist and it is still going. At 21,600 vph the seconds hand advances 6 times a second, the slower and more audible rate of an older design.

26600OR.OO.D002CR.01 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It carries a red gold case. Introduced in 2019. Beyond the time it carries a tourbillon.

Drawn as a skeleton from the outset rather than cut away from a solid movement, which let Audemars Piguet place the bridges for the look as much as the mechanics. Its 196 parts carry some seventy hand-polished inward angles, the finishing operation no machine can perform. Black PVD bridges sit against a rhodium mainplate. It powers the CODE 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked.

3 other watches in the library run the Audemars Piguet AP 2948.

Audemars Piguet

CODE 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked Only Watch Edition

26600CR.OO.D002CR.99 · 41 mm

Audemars Piguet

CODE 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked White Gold / Pink Gold / Grey

26600CR.OO.D009KB.01 · 41 mm

Audemars Piguet

CODE 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked White Gold / Blue Ceramic / Blue

26600NB.OO.D346KB.01 · 41 mm