This is not a watch with hands.
This is time told the right way.
Audemars Piguet didn't make another Royal Oak. They built an entirely new axis for how you wear a watch. A case. A movement. A display that rewires expectations the second you see it.
This is how it should be done.
Why It Made The Cut
The Neo Frame Jumping Hour is the first self-winding jumping hour movement Audemars Piguet has ever produced.
Not decorative nostalgia. Real watchmaking muscle.
Hours jump instantly at the top of the hour. Minutes glide below in a clean aperture. No dial clutter. No traditional hands. Just precision delivered through two windows cut into black PVD-treated sapphire.
It's architectural.
The case is 18-carat pink gold. Rectangular. Vertical gadroons running down the flanks like a tailored pinstripe in metal. It feels like a modern object that remembers the 1920s and refuses to live there.
Inside is Calibre 7122. 4 Hz. 52-hour power reserve. Patented shock protection engineered specifically to keep that instantaneous jump crisp and uncompromised. The hour disc is titanium. The minute disc aluminium. Every material decision made in service of one thing: perfect execution.
Others try. This delivers.
Lifestyle Integration
This is what you wear when wrists need context.
Not hype. Not volume. Authority.
It slides under a cuff and quietly destabilises every round case in the room. It sits on a black calfskin strap that tapers into long sculpted lugs like it was carved from a single idea.
You don't check this watch obsessively. You wait for the hour to flip.
Your future self already owns this. Catch up.
Yes. It's Expensive. Obviously.
$71,200.
That's the entry fee for mechanical theatre executed properly.
This isn't about affordability. It's about permanence. You don't buy this twice. You buy it once and the conversation ends.
The people who don't own this are fine. They're just wrong.
