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Developing an Annual Calendar
Patek Philippe may have invented the annual calendar in 1996, but Audemars Piguet led the counter-charge for the partisans of Le Brassus. The 25920 Royal Oak Annual Calendar was under development within months of Patek’s launch of the groundbreaking reference 5035. But when arriving second to a gala, a grander entrance is required. And in the iconic Royal Oak’s profile, AP found its party-crasher.
The Royal Oak Annual Calendar was designed to sit within the dimensions of the 14790 mid-size. Implementation of the complication was designed to change as little of the now-sacrosanct core style as possible; only a radial date and an off-center month sub-dial betrayed the JLC-based modular complication sitting beneath the
tapisserie dial.
One For The Collectors
When the Royal Oak Annual Calendar reached the market in 1998, it represented a unique proposition to collectors. More compact than the 39mm 25686 Royal Oak Perpetual and more exotic than the 14802 Jumbo of that era, the stumpy Annual Calendar was AP’s quirkiest non-Offshore Royal Oak.
Production of the Royal Oak Annual Calendar bridged the two millennia before discontinuation in the early 2000s. At least two dial generations and two materials – steel and yellow gold – were offered on this rarely seen reference. While exact production numbers elude scholarship, the model is uncommon in the collector market and even unknown to many committed collectors of Audemars Piguet.
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