{"id":48509,"date":"2025-10-01T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48509\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:41:08","slug":"audemars-piguets-biggest-watch-release-of-2025-is-inspired-by-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48509\/","title":{"rendered":"Audemars Piguet\u2019s Biggest Watch Release of 2025 Is Inspired by the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucas Raggi, Audemars Piguet<\/a>\u2019s director of research and development, helps to cultivate the esteemed watchmaker\u2019s many complex projects involving new complications, dial colors, and designs. There is a comforting and predictable flow, Raggi says, to making most watches: He and his team get a brief to develop a specific new watch or movement, they build prototypes, pick the ones they like, and then put them into production.<\/p>\n

But to create AP\u2019s latest release\u2014the Royal Oak<\/a> \u201cJumbo\u201d Extra-Thin Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph RD#5 (or simply \u201cRD#5\u201d for short), which was officially unveiled today\u2014Raggi\u2019s familiar procedure went out the window. It\u2019s a completely unexpected watch (with iPhone-style buttons on the side!) that required a totally new way of thinking to create.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything you need to know about this revolutionary timepiece.<\/p>\n

\"Audemars<\/p>\n

Diode SA – Denis Hayoun<\/p>\n

What is Audemars Piguet\u2019s RD series?<\/p>\n

Since 2015, Audemars Piguet has launched some of its most audacious projects through its RD\u2014research and development\u2014umbrella. With each release, the team has set out to establish a new industry standard or find a new solution to age-old watchmaking challenges. RD#1 was about jazzing up the sound of a minute-repeater<\/a>, the rare complication which uses a series of dings, chimes, and gongs to tell the time through sound. RD#2 managed to fit all the components of a perpetual calendar<\/a> on a single level to reduce the watch\u2019s thickness, while RD#3 similarly slimmed down a tourbillon. Finally, RD#4 was about pure showmanship\u2014with 23 complications and 17 \u201ctechnical devices\u201d packed inside, it was the most complicated watch AP had ever produced.<\/p>\n

What was the challenge of RD#5?<\/p>\n

Oh, nothing too crazy\u2026just completely overhauling the operation of the chronograph, the built-in stopwatch function that has worked roughly the same way for 200 years.<\/p>\n

Why, what\u2019s the problem with it?<\/p>\n

The buttons were too hard.<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

You typically operate the chronograph function on a watch through the use of buttons\u2014or \u201cpushers\u201d\u2014along the side of the case. The team at AP noticed that on vintage watches, the pushers were \u201csofter\u201d than the ones on modern iterations\u2014meaning you didn\u2019t have to press down very hard to start, stop, and reset the stopwatch function. \u201cThe challenge came out of our frustration of feeling the sensation you could get in the vintage pieces,\u201d Raggi said. They set out to recreate that feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucas Raggi, Audemars Piguet\u2019s director of research and development, helps to cultivate the esteemed watchmaker\u2019s many complex projects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37712,85,46,125,7945,14967,5101],"class_list":{"0":"post-48509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-audemars-piguet","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","13":"tag-watches","14":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}