Today famed for their octagonal design elements as best seen in the Royal Oak, Royal Oak Offshore, Royal Oak Concept, Code 11.59 and others, Audemars Piguet, like just about every other high-end watchmaker, was once best-known for their round dress watches. Designed with a minimalist aesthetic that epitomized the timepiece’s functional nature, these dress watches were round, thin and had elegantly legible dials – just as this vintage dress watch has. Hailing from the 1960s, this dress watch is an 18kt yellow gold example that features a black dial with applied faceted indices and simple sword hands that feed into its design language all the more. Echoing this design language is this example’s running seconds subdial at 6 o’clock that takes the appearance of a delicate crosshair that reaches all the way down to the edge of the dial. Featuring a svelte case that allows this watch to be extra-thin, as AP was known for at the time, it is powered by a manual-wind cal. 2001 movement like most of AP’s dress watches from the same era.

An elegant dress watch from AP that speaks to the watchmaker's vintage ideals, this timepiece showcases the refined side of AP's design language, a side to them that we don't get to see all that often in their modern releases.