The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked Fully Explained

Today, we travel to Le Brassus, in the heart of the Vallée de Joux, to discover an incredibly complex and visually impressive watch, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked 15407. We sit down with CEO François-Henry Bennahmias and Gilles Pellet, Head of Product Quality Department, to understand how this watch came to life and all the advantages of the Double Balance Wheel concept.
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Video filmed and edited by PMG Productions, for Monochrome-Watches. All rights reserved, 2017.

[@simonassouline1230]

Genius watch makers, creating the ultimate master piece haute horology watch! Without the CEO knowing, great fortunes come to those who innovate and prosper! AP, the Greatest!

[@AVANTAGEYT]

great video! The 15407ST is my holy grail.

[@simonassouline45]

Amazing and Beautiful Watch!

[@DonLee1980]

hopefully one day i would be able to buy this grail watch.

[@garrettkenny4339]

Outstanding video

[@djangopat]

Very interesting. Thanks

[@BobbyDazzler888]

The snobbery and lack of enthusiasm from boutiques to help you obtain certain models that they never have in the showroom is poor effort. Models like this get talked up but then you walk into a boutique and tell you theres a ‘long’ wait. (Deliberately to drive brand enthusiasm, hype or they sell to their grey market friends). Grey market dealers have them in supply continuously which is questionable. It seems to me that retailers and grey market dealers are working with each other rather than the watch enthusiast and buyer. Funny how grey market dealers have brand new watches selling way above retail and stores tell you they cant get them without a ‘long’ wait. This needs to be fixed in the industry.

[@Roy-vh9rp]

"Funny how grey market dealers have brand new watches selling way above retail and stores tell you they cant get them without a ‘long’ wait. This needs to be fixed in the industry."
Agree 100%. At the moment there are more than 60 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked on Chrono24 - mostly new, and (for steel versions) with asking prices about 20 000 USD over retail.
This is one of the reasons I probably never will buy Audemars Piguet.

[@fanfu524]

So true, I'm trying to buy one and the boutique manager told me straight the steel version is simply "no way". I got the hint that I either need to spend 100K+ to be even qualified to be on the "waitlist" or need go grey market. This goes same to blue dial RO 15400, or most Patek Nautiluses. It's rather absurd that one need buy number of gold watch(es!!) just to be able to "wait" for steel ones. In the mean time, snatched a Patek RG Annual Calender and Rolex Gold GMT (together with a steel Patek 24 and a Rolex Two tone Datejust), then patiently wait for the next 2008.

[@SpaghettiKillah]

Greg Mieg yep, you nailed it! It's like those clubs that keep the door shut with bouncers and they only let "selected" people in to create hype and and air of "exclusivity"...then you get inside and it's half empty and the whole atmosphere and vibe sucks because they've let in only hoes and drug dealers with oversized gold watches😂

[@GradoLabsFans]

perhaps i can answer you some questions.
first, lets say watches that do not require application, not limited, not extremely high difficult to make
- when the factory finish some watches they will sent them to boutique or retailers all around the world.
- those boutique or retailer may only receive one piece. sells man always contact their old customers, who interest or pre-order those model. If there is no preorder, they will sell it to whom pay first,
for those limit edition,
- let say if a model only make 300 pcs, once its official release. client need to pay deposit to secure the watch. once again first pay first serve.
watches that require application
- you must be their client first
- you may heard 1:1 -1:3. which mean if you want a watch which cost 50K then you have to buy 50K - 150K unpopular watch first, but no promise you will get the watch you want
there are lots of game rules....
for those "grey market dealers" what they selling is preowned watch (2nd hand) they may look like new.
most of the time those watch are unpopular watch (buy under 1:2 ratio) or watch hard to buy

[@Hitler99771]

Just get a replica lol

[@DaneIbsen]

wow

[@Mark-xw5yt]

“Can we make a lot of them” I doubt ap makes a lot of these lmao

[@alexanderswander8176]

It’s a very nice watch but it’s not worth the price point of $80000. Would be better if it were half the price!

[@Mark-xw5yt]

From the future, it only went up. Rip

[@shubhankarsse]

Not it's 130k. RIP

[@86gp]

You gotta understand the craftsmanship of the watch to understand the price

[@RoelfvanderMerwe]

First!

[@rishurishad1494]

Centuries model