One of the most technically flamboyant watches on display came from Swiss-based Audemars Piguet.
In
the making for over eight years, the company drafted in an expert on
stringed instruments and an academic from the Geneva conservatory who
specializes in the psychology of perceived sound to create the Royal Oak
Acoustic Research Concept . The achievement here is a timepiece that
squeezes the pleasing mechanical chimes reminiscent of a Grandfather
Clock into the miniature real-estate of a wristwatch.
"If they were alive and 25 years old today, they would be on the quest
for the next Holy Grail," says effusive CEO François-Henry Bennahmias of
the two men who founded the company 139 years ago. "No matter how great
their latest watch would be, the day after they would already be on the
next one. It has always been part of who we are.Only for the Big Boys.
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