Representing AP’s very roots as a traditional watchmaker, the Jules Audemars collection has often been AP’s vehicle to demonstrate their innovative talents as one of horology’s best watchmakers. Launched in 1991, the Jules Audemars Tourbillon, for example, was the world’s first automatic tourbillon wristwatch. While that was certainly an impressive feat, it wasn’t enough for AP and so they even fitted the ref. 26084OR with a luxurious construction that sets it apart from the crowd in more ways than one. Featuring a stunning mother of pearl dial, the ref. 26084OR’s display features a large tourbillon aperture with well-executed guilloche patterns throughout, applied Roman numerals and diamond-set markers along the outermost chapter ring. Housed within a perfectly symmetrical 39mm 18kt rose gold case with a diamond-set bezel and a diamond-set winding crown, the ref. 26084OR is luxury and high-end watchmaking combined into one seriously extravagant timepiece.

A technically impressive timepiece when it was first launched, and still to this day, the Jules Audemars Tourbillon reinforced AP's high-watchmaking prowess with its incredible complications and well-executed construction.