Hey, welcome back to Jaztime. Jaztime.com is an online store that buys, sells, and trades authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so you can easily choose the best watch for yourself from the comfort of your own home. We offer the lowest prices anywhere online. If you'd like to know the price, simply click on the links in the description below. We greatly appreciate. You have to purchase your next watch from us at jaztime.com. Today we'll be talking about the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet, the self winding chronograph. The reference number being 26393OR.OO.A321CR.01 This one a kind of a divisive watch, very controversial. There's a lot to unpack here and I'll be unpacking a little bit more than all of the other channels that I've seen. I did quite a bit of research on this watch. I saw what a lot of the community has been saying about it. And let me just dispel some things in this video, okay? So a lot of people say this is kind of a garbage watch. A lot of people miss Gerald Genta's Royal Oak, and, you know, okay, so they're not wrong. But they're not correct either, because, well, the only way you're going to actually get growth is to actually branch out, do something different. And Audemars Piguet have done something, well, a lot of things very different with this watch. So I'll be going over the case, the dial the, well, not much of a bezel here, the crown functions, the chronograph functions, the movement, and this nice blue alligator leather strap. And I'll be giving you my thoughts on all of these and the myths dispelling them throughout this video. So starting off with this case, it's a 41 millimeter case. It measures a little bit larger than that and what the chronograph pushers and the crown. Certainly it comes out to just above 41 millimeters, but they do measure 41 millimeters from finger to thumb. That's the two o'clock to eight o'clock position or the 10 to four, same distance. It has a thickness of about, let's see, I wrote it down here. It's 20, or no, sorry. 12.6 millimeters in thickness. A curved Sapphire crystal on the front and flat Sapphire crystal on the back. Both very interestingly done as you can see. Just looking at that, you can tell we're in for a ride on this one, all right? So anyway, 12.6 millimeters at the thickest. It tapers down quite a bit toward the top and bottom portions of this watch case, which is all 18 carat rose gold, pink gold. as you want to call it. Only 30 meters of water resistance. So don't take this more than surface syllable. And it's, let me just say this right now, it's a dress watch, even though it is a chronograph, yes. Chronographs are a sort of hallmark, a definitive point that says that this is a sports watch, but this is actually a dress watch. Let me make that clear, a dress watch. 12.6 millimeters, not the finished dress watch, but a dress watch. Why is that? Because it has the leather strap here. I'll get to that in a moment, but it comes on a leather strap. It's a dress watch. End of story. End of discussion. All right. So taking a look at the side of this case, nothing you don't already know if you've already researched this watch. You have a skeletonized lug profile here. So this is certainly designed by someone who will never, ever have to clean this, but certainly if you've got the means you have the money, well, that's gonna be no issue. It's gonna be not a problem at all. Sort of an alternating look of set and brush going from top to bottom 12 to six, with a high polish on that sort of callback to that Royal Oak profile, the rounded octagonal bezel look marrying that of the case. Well, you certainly have that in this case here sandwiched by the round profile on the front end on the back, as you can see. You also have these hallmarks so you know that you are dealing with rose gold in this case, you know, these precious metals. And that's kind of an interesting little design feature from Audemars Piguet. Sort of preserving what they have so that you certainly know that this is an Audemars Piguet watch and you can only really see these sorts of things within the details, because when you're looking at it face on, you're not gonna see much different from, say a Breitling or even a Rolex Explorer or a Daytona even. But taking a look closer at the details reveals a lot more. The blue lacquer dial on here, little bit interesting. Not something you'd see from Audemars Piguet, because normally they would have a geo shape pattern grande tapisserie, mega tapisserie, petite tapisserie, however you wanna call it. Just sort of the raised squares with the tiniest little carvings in them to make that nice sunray pattern. You're not gonna get that here. You're gonna get a very clean presentation overall, actually. Not to say that the tapisserie patterns are not elegant in their own right. This is just a clean presentation. It's different. And certainly that's not all that's different. You have these a gold counters as well, 18 carat rose gold as well on the hour markers and hands. Now taking a look at the chronograph hand center mounted, it's also sort of like this needle-looking with a around counterbalance at the very end, all baton style with the minute and hour hands. And taking a look at how how they're constructed, they're not entirely flat, so you can certainly see them in any angle of light, something that is sorely missing on even Rolex watches. So, plus for them on this one. Even though there's no luminescence, as long as you have some sort of light you can still see it. Now the only issues here is that the, well, if you look at the 12 and the name Audemars Piguet printed on, well, not literally printed, but what they call galvanized or galvanic growth in 24 carat pink gold all for the logo, and the 12 o'clock, well, I'm not a chemistry major. So if you happen to know what that means, that galvanic growth, leave it down in the comments below. I need to know. I wanna know. But anyway, those are completely flat on the face. So they're reflecting the complete darkness of my room here, not the brightness of the LightBox I have it sitting in. So keep that in mind. You're not gonna see that very easily, but you already know where the 12 o'clock position is. And if you look at it, what do you notice about this logo? Well, it's slightly different from their typical word mark logo, because, well, to start off looking at the E's in both Audemars and Piguet. The middle arm is actually short and stout. It's not pulled out and long. Let me show you an example here on the case back. The middle arm is actually a little bit thinner at the middle and extends out just a little bit more, right? But that's not all. Take a look at the I in Piguet. On the normal logo, it is separate and distinct from all the other letters. In fact, none of the letters run into each other. You have no ligatures here. Looking at on the watch face, though, a lot of the letters are actually connected, especially the D and the E and the Audemars, the A and the U as well. And the letter I in Piguet actually combines with both the P and the G to either side of it, creating this sort of like three-lettered, almost ligatured type of look. I don't know why they would do this, but maybe just to sort of push that boundary, maybe introduce it very subtly. Well, not as subtle as you can make it on the literal face of your new watch, but certainly something that maybe they're showing that they're willing to branch out just a little bit, and that's not all. Looking at this in its totality, what do you also notice? There're three different fonts on here. Well, first you have the Audemars Piguet logo a different font from what you would typically see. The number 12, well, this doesn't really fit in to any sort of font family that I can tell so far, but if anyone knows where this is from, let me know. But I do know that the tachymeter, as well as all the chronograph and the small seconds, as well as the date window at the 4:30 position, this font is actually... Quite funnily it's agency FB by Font Bureau made in the '90s actually. It has these sort of a very squared off edges. No serifs minus four, except for the nearly imperceptible top of the ones on these, you know, the number one for all of these, tachymeter values as well as the 10 second or, well, 10 minutes and the 10-hour, 12-hour marks. But it's just interesting being able to recognize fonts like this, that just comes stock with the Adobe Creative Suite. But anyway, why would they use fonts like this? Why not just use typical unrecognizable standard fonts, such as copperplate? Well, they're going with something modern and overall taking a look at this watch, this is all modernized, just some slight call-outs to their heritage, that Royal Oak design, obviously. And certainly that AP logo on the winding crown. Nothing different there, but taking a look at how all this works together on this watch face. If you look at all the details, this just screams modernity. They're changing things up for, I think, honestly, for the better. It makes it very easy to see with the way that they created these hour marks these index markers on this dial, because, again, if you can't see the 12, that means it's reflecting what is behind me essentially. But these hands sort of glow, and that's the way that they have made these so that they're not entirely flat, but actually a little bit angled on the edges so that they reflect light coming in from the side. So it's very easy to read still. Almost gives the index arrow markers as well as the minute and hour hands sort of like this glowing presence. Very good from Audemars Piguet there. They're thinking about how to make this usable and readable. Now, taking a look at the crown functions, rather simple. At the base position, you can just wind the watch. That's all you need to do. And thanks to the little space underneath the crown there, you can actually get your fingernail in there to lift it out and this takes you to the second position. This allows you to quick set the date, just rotate the crown clockwise, that advances the date aperture at the 4:30 position. And do remember it's about 1/3 of a turn actually to advance the date by one each time, right? And you won't be doing this very frequently, maybe just a few times a year on the months that only have 30 days. And certainly you can do so very easily. Once you reach the dawn of the 31st day, just switch it over to the first and there we go. First of the next month Nice and easy. Also note that tiny, tiny, thin, thin little surf at the top of the one. That's how I know that this is agency FB, FB, meaning Font Bureau. Anyway, I digress. Pull it out to the final position. Do note that the small seconds at the six o'clock position actually stops, something very nice and useful for the modern professional here from Audemars Piguet. You can certainly keep that seconds hand in its position so you can then place a minutes wherever it needs to go, press it all in, and there you go. You ensure the waterproofness as well as the starting up of that small seconds so you can then have the accuracy and even the precision of that minute hand, right? And the chronograph here is actually also a flyback chronograph. So you have this functionality of no sudden jumps, no stuttering stops of that chronograph hand sensor mounted. You can let this run as a large center seconds if you wanted to, thanks to the vertical clutch on the inside, but you also have the thing called a flyback. With the feature of a flyback is if you wanna time multiple events, multiple race cars, for example, you can do so just by pressing the bottom button as it's running to set the chronograph hand, as well as that 30-minute counter and the 12-hour counter back to zero immediately. All right, so if you wanna end the current time measurement of one thing, and then just immediately start the second one you can do so very easily. What makes all of this work is the in-house made caliber. Now, let me see here, I wrote it down somewhere, here we go. The 4401, as you can see through this case back, huge movement on the inside actually. Has 40 joules, 381 total parts. It has the full diameter, 32 millimeters, very much filling the entire case here. You're not gonna get a tiny exhibition case back that may be covering up a bunch of space. No, this takes up the entire body. Beats at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour or four Hertz. You also have the bi-directional winding rotor center mounted, so that you can simply wear this watch and you can wind it just by wearing it due to your natural wrist movements. So very good from Audemars Piguet there. You also have the functions, the flyback chronograph hours, minutes, both center mounted with the small seconds at the six o'clock, the chronograph measurements at the nine o'clock, 30 minutes, and 12 hours at the nine and three respectively, with the date setting at the 4:30 position. All of this allows you to have 70 hours of power reserve, Impressive. Something that doesn't really happen very often with Audemars Piguet, especially with all this functionality. 70 hours of power reserve is impressive, right? Now, taking a look at how this wears on the wrist. You do have this blue alligator leather strap. You can get other straps as specified on their website from their boutique. So you're not limited to this blue alligator leather strap with the large scales on top, small scales underneath for comfort and durability. So they're not skimping out here, because having the double-sided alligator leather strap means it's made for wear. It's not something that you wear once and put down, you wanna wear this pretty frequently, even though this is a rose gold, pink gold construction. It's quite, you know, not something that you should wear every day, but you have that ability to do so. If you have the money to do it, go ahead. Why not? Who's gonna stop you. Now taking a look at this buckle here, the pin buckle, a little bit different from what you would find from Audemars Piguet here. You do have the still sand brush finishing with the sandblasted AP logo right on there with the pin buckle. Nice and easy to set on the fly. But you also have the hexagonal screw on the inside, and indeed, you also have them on these lugs here. I didn't mention those earlier, but you do have the hexagonal screws as is very evident on the case front of the Royal Oak watches, you have them in the lugs here. So you do have those references of subtle call-outs to the Royal Oak line. Now, while we're here, I can try it on my wrist and give you my thoughts as to how it wears. Now, keep in mind that this is a 41 millimeter watch. So it's a bit big for me. And even though the strap, I have it set to the smallest setting, really big for me still, but the framing works quite well because those lugs do extend out quite a bit, not too far beyond my wrist, but they do provide an excellent framing, 12 and six o'clock sides of this dial to give that dial a good sense of continuity around the wrist. Looking at it down the wrist here, rests very nicely, even though there's a tiny bit of space underneath there. If you have a larger risk, this'll set very nicely as well. If you have a smaller wrist, you can still wear this even down to, I would wager 13, 14 centimeter wrist. So maybe like a 5 1/2 to 6 inch could still wear this watch. And certainly it doesn't look bad. It actually looks quite nice. And for a watch that almost looks like a Daytona, and I say, almost looks like a Daytona from Rolex, this Audemars Piguet actually does look quite elegant, actually. And certainly when you look at all the details, that's where it all comes out. You have, speaking of the details, look at that. The way that the crystal is set up, you do have the inner domed portion of that crystal creating sort of an echoing visual effect within that dial so that it looks like the crystal is sort of echoing with itself and fading literally into the dial, which sort of tilts away from you the viewer, depending on which angle you're viewing it at, but it's still tilting away. So that's quite an interesting little side effect of this crystal, which by the way, again, don't, only from the 12 to six. It is actually flat when you measure it from nine to three and here let me prove it to you using the warranty card. All right, so you can see that I can move the warranty card. It is certainly domed from 12 to six, but from the nine to three sits flat. It does not move. It is completely flat. It is not a saddle-shaped crystal. It is completely flat, as you can see. Also scratch resistant, so no need to recoil in your chairs at home. It's because this is a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal. It's a plastic warranty card, it's not gonna scratch it. And certainly no suit threads or banzel scratches either, all right? So that's about all I have for you guys. Let us know what you think about this watch. I'm more on the side of get this watch. It's good, it's progressive, it's modern. It's everything that Audemars Piguet need to sort of pull them out of they're sort of one trick pony look, what their Royal Oak and Royal Oak Offshore. both hexa, or the hexagonal screws on the front of a large octagonal, rounded octagonal case. This is completely round with sort of some slight call-outs to that. Skeletonized lugs, different. Agency font for their numbers. And a lacquered dial, lacquered inner bezel, lacquered rehaut with something that you would never see in any crystal, on any other watch ever really, because I've never seen this before on anything ever. It has that sort of visual acuity that just says elegance subtlety. And just like the sense of a sophistication with it, since the sense of modernity that is within this watch paralleled by none. And just something that I really just appreciate and I feel that this is a model that I believe should take off sometime soon. It needs to take off because it's so modern and something that you will never see in any other watch. Find another watch that does this better. Leave down in the comments below. Go ahead. I'll wait. Anyway, currently this model is retailing at the high 40K mark. So currently $47,600 in the US at least. This is actually selling for below that retail price on the market. So you can get it on our website, jaztime.com. Link's in the description below if you want to get it right now at less than that, because honestly, that's what the Royal Oak used to be about a year or two ago before the pandemic started in late 2019, early 2020, and all throughout 2020. It's still a pandemic, so do wash your hands, stay safe, keep your masks on and so forth because there is Delta variant going around. Don't wanna catch that. It's pretty nasty. So do keep that in mind. Get it now before the market price goes up beyond retail and it becomes harder and harder to get. We can get it for you quite easily here at jazztime.com. Link's in the description below again, where you can get it for the lowest price anywhere online, and certainly lower than market price. Get it now before it's too late. And if it is too late, you're watching this a few years in the future and it's gone up beyond 50K, well, I'm sorry you waited way too long, or you got into the game way too long. Anyway, that's it for us. Leave a like, be sure to comment, subscribe. Hit the bell notification so you can be notified when we go live with another video like this one. And as always again, if you wanna purchase this watch before it goes above retail, you can get it on our website at jaztime.com. Link's in the description below, where you can get it for the lowest price online anywhere. We'll see you in the next one. Take care.