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 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 white gold example that features a white dial with svelte applied stick indices and simple baton hands that feed into its design language all the more. Featuring a svelte 33.5mm case, this example is an extra-thin watch at 7mm tall, as AP was known for at the time thanks to its manual-wind movement and flat bezel. Thanks to being powered by the manual-wind cal. K2001/1A, this dress watch gets to sit flat on the wrist. A historically rich movement from a historically rich brand, the cal. K2001/1A fits perfectly inside of this timepiece and allows it to wear incredibly densely on the wrist as so many vintage watch collectors adore.

Watch is in very good overall condition. Case sides exhibit some wear, but no major dings or scratches. There is visible oxidation on the surface indexes and around them, as well as some black spotting and wear around the dial edge. Watch comes on a generic strap and buckle.

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