Audemars Piguet and gem-setting companion Salanitro have revealed a staggering feat of gemmology, a set of 20 new Royal Oaks absolutely set utilizing 10 totally different gems.

The 18K white gold three-handers are supplied in ruby, emerald and blue sapphire in addition to tanzanites, yellow chrysoberyls, pink tourmalines, amethysts, blue topaz, orange spessartites and tsavorites, with every supplied in 37mm and 41mm sizes.

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Salanitro has paved every watch with a distinct invisibly set baguette-cut gemstone, with 861 stones in 179 sizes used on the 41mm items and 790 stones in 153 sizes set into the 37mm fashions. The uniform gem-set dials additionally recreate the Royal Oak’s famed Grande Tapisserie grid sample dials.

Past the intricate setting work, the problem is available in choosing and chopping so many stones for every watch in precisely the identical hue, a course of which took Salanitro one yr. The stones for every watch had been checked as units by Salanitro after which Audemars Piguet to “guarantee full homogeneity” earlier than “purity and pure origin” had been verified by an exterior laboratory.

“With these units we went off the crushed monitor to create an unprecedented rainbow with ten daring timepieces, every embellished with a distinct gemstone,” says Nathalie Barzilay, Audemars Piguet’s Head Gemmologist. “We chosen a number of the world’s purest and most vivid stones, together with emeralds, rubies, tourmalines, tanzanites, tsavorites, chrysoberyls and spessartites. A problem as we needed to discover some 800 gems per watch, all with the very same color and the best degree of high quality.”

The 41mm and 37mm fashions are fitted with 4Hz Calibre 4309 and Calibre 5909 self-winding actions, every fitted with the Royal Oak’s fiftieth Anniversary “50-years” winding rotor in rhodium-toned 22-carat pink gold.

Every of the 20 examples are listed as value on software and out there by way of Audemars Piguet.

Elsewhere in watches, Patek Philippe reveals the 5811, the a lot anticipated successor to the 5711.