New AP 26240 with 4401 Super Clone movement is coming

[daytonadude]

Finally got my QC for the green one!

 

[KGZ]

FedEX Shipping

I have been tempted to try out this mod for some time. Let me know if it's worth it!

 

[Rangerfan]

how much are you paying for these "mods"?

$1000 give or take.
including the FedEx “mod” @KGZ wants to try out.

 

[Rangerfan]

I have been tempted to try out this mod for some time. Let me know if it's worth it!

If I get my watch, it was worth it. If not, it wasn’t.

Everybody’s a comedian.

 

[Amaiel]

for the expert: the screws in the gen are white gold or steel?

 

[Db9s]

for the expert: the screws in the gen are white gold or steel?

It started out as white gold. Then AP got cheap and while they kept raising the prices, they switched to steel in the later versions. You get less for more.

 

[Rangerfan]

It started out as white gold. Then AP got cheap and while they kept raising the prices, they switched to steel in the later versions. You get less for more.

I feel like I have heard that before.

 

[Paul Newman]

It started out as white gold. Then AP got cheap and while they kept raising the prices, they switched to steel in the later versions. You get less for more.

Gold is soft, for screws on a bezel like the AP one that gets marked by just looking at it I think steel is a better material.

 

[derrickcrash]

It started out as white gold. Then AP got cheap and while they kept raising the prices, they switched to steel in the later versions. You get less for more.

Far from true, it wasn't about being 'cheap' it was about cost saving and not becoming bankrupt during the quartz crisis. It lasted a good 10 years or so when a lot of Swiss watchmakers were dropping like flies and only a third were left. Mind you, this was the 80s when the price of gold and other exotic materials were justifiably less expensive.

 

[ljewell646]

Can someone confirm there should be a gasket under the bezel? I compared to my ceramic and looks like there is so I’m fairly confident but want to be 100% before I say something to my modder

 

[Reaps]

Can someone confirm there should be a gasket under the bezel? I compared to my ceramic and looks like there is so I’m fairly confident but want to be 100% before I say something to my modder

Yes missing a gasket

 

[Endez]

Can someone confirm there should be a gasket under the bezel? I compared to my ceramic and looks like there is so I’m fairly confident but want to be 100% before I say something to my modder

Who modded it?

 

[SHB]

Just be patient.

When APSF releases the new batch with nicely aligned markers and better rotor, the M2M will be flooded with blues....

This.

Let's hope they don't ruin the dial color, fix one thing, ruin another thing.

I'll wait for v3 so I can grab a v2 from m2m

 

[Reaps]

Not rep but I saw some macros of the purple dial, I think it's quite gorgeous, might be my next pickup

 

[SHB]

Not rep but I saw some macros of the purple dial, I think it's quite gorgeous, might be my next pickup

I'm in love with this one but unwearable in real life lol
The only place i could wear that one would be in my house or into a secret hotel room like @Markaplan

 

[Db9s]

Far from true, it wasn't about being 'cheap' it was about cost saving and not becoming bankrupt during the quartz crisis. It lasted a good 10 years or so when a lot of Swiss watchmakers were dropping like flies and only a third were left. Mind you, this was the 80s when the price of gold and other exotic materials were justifiably less expensive.

I feel like AP bankrupted themselves by overpricing watches no one wanted. AP catalog was hot overpriced garbage until the Royal Oak. (The tradition is still kept alive by the Code)

Quartz takes the blame yes, but the Japanese were already making huge strides in cheap mechanical movements already by then. Switzerland never had the manpower to supply the world demand, they just like to make excuses. Still now we have a lot of gen stuff made in China but stamped “Swiss made”

 

[munichman]

AP catalog was hot overpriced garbage until the Royal Oak.

Was there life at all at AP before the RO?

...as it [the RO] was launched on April 15, 1972. At the end of the same year, it was already Audemars Piguet’s most successful single model since the company founding in 1875, with 490 timepieces sold in less than eight months. It is worth recalling that the company in Le Brassus employed less than 100 people at the time to produce a few thousand watches, most of which were issued in very small series averaging 25 units, or even as one-offs.

https://apchronicles.audemarspiguet...om-enfant-terrible-to-full-fledged-collection

The RO was the breakthrough for AP, as the Nautilus was for PPF.
Without either watches those companies would probably be dead by now, no matter their other models.

 

[Amaiel]

I believe it is true for AP, but not PP. Look at Vacheron, it is alive without having had an iconic model

 

[jm_brc_7057]

I believe it is true for AP, but not PP. Look at Vacheron, it is alive without having had an iconic model

Yes but what a miserable life

 

[samsoniteman]

I'm in love with this one but unwearable in real life lol
The only place i could wear that one would be in my house or into a secret hotel room like @Markaplan

Is it due to Gen being a 6 figure $$ watch? I’ve also thought about this as I didn’t realize until after I ordered it that the Gen version is WG and not SS.

I loved it when i saw pics of the purple dial and in person it’s every bit as amazing if not more so.

Now I can’t get it off my wrist and will continue to wear it regardless! I say get it if you love it. Will be worth it even if you’re just wearing at home or secretly meeting with @Markaplan in a hotel