Audio frequencies as the main decoration.
For last year's Montreux Jazz Festival in June, the walls and columns of Audemars Piguet's Parallel experience space at Lake House were decorated with colored stripes to reflect sound waves on a graphic music visualizer. A similar pattern appeared on the dial of the Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Music Edition in the same year of 2022.
The pattern consisting of vertical pillars with ten colors used for constituent Tapisserie squares epitomizes the watchmaker's special interest in musical projects. Not only does AP support musicians, the company also brings modern technology to the world of music.
Suffice to say that the partnership with the festival in Montreux began with the digitization of jazz archives, and a collaboration with the producer Mark Ronson as brand ambassador and the singer-songwriter Lucky Daye who Robson works with not only led to a joint track, they also made a video documenting the creative process.
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Music Edition
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Music Edition
This year, the connection between music and technology is highlighted in a 37 mm Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Music Edition in a black ceramic case. Last year's Music Editions featured versions in titanium and white gold measuring 43 mm and 37 mm, but the black ceramic edition was launched in a single case measuring 43 mm in diameter.
This arguably deprived those with skinny wrists of the collection's most eye-catching model. That gap has been filled this year. Size isn't the only thing that makes the 37 mm version stand out from its colleagues.
They came with straps decorated with a "Mosaic" pattern. This year's watch is no exception., where each watch comes with no less than four interchangeable rubber straps with the Mosaic pattern: black, turquoise, yellow and green.
The watch is powered by the same Caliber 5909 engine used in 2022: a member of the latest generation of movements by Audemars Piguet. It was created based on Caliber 5900, but the date window has been removed to create a more solid visualizer dial. The self-winding movement ensures a power reserve of 60 hours.