This is the superb Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar 26574ST.OO.1220ST.03 and available now to own….
The 26574ST represents the Royal Oak perpetual calendar’s most democratically accessible expression — and in the context of a complication this historically significant, democratically accessible remains a relative term that the secondary market has been rapidly reappraising. Steel perpetual calendar Royal Oaks have always occupied a position of quiet authority among collectors who understand that precious metal is optional where mechanical conviction is absolute.
The calibre 5134 is AP’s ultra-thin perpetual calendar movement, delivering date, day, month, leap year, and moonphase with self-correcting logic requiring intervention only in 2100 achieves its full complication within a profile of remarkable elegance. That this mechanical complexity exists within the Royal Oak’s established 41mm steel case, without visual compromise, remains a genuine achievement of movement architecture.
The blue dial that characteristic AP blue shifting between navy and sapphire depending on light against the steel integrated bracelet completes a configuration of total coherence. The perpetual calendar Royal Oak, in its most enduringly correct form.
This watch is in impeccable condition and offered as a complete set.
Part exchange welcome
