Way back in 2006 the manufacture introduced a new escapement that
functioned at a less frenetic 21,600 vph, but even at that time tests
had shown that the AP escapement was efficient at running perfectly at
43,200 vph or 6 hertz-even without having lubrication from the pallet
stones, which would quickly dissipate at that speed anyway. The
omission of lubricant solves an issue which includes plagued watchmakers
for as long as mechanical timepieces have been with us: gumming or
hardening with the oil audemars piguet offshore.
This fresh escapement is founded on an invention by Parisian royal
clockmaker Robert Robin (1742-1799). He developed a new system in 1791
that combined the virtues of these two well-known escapements of the
day, so-called free-sprung escapement and one including energy transfer
via pallet fork and guard pin contained in the precursor towards modern
Swiss lever escapement as invented by Thosmas Mudge in 1759.
Audemars Piguet has succeeded in securing the benefits of both
systems in its new high-frequency escapement, solving the oil problem
and introducing a whole new and important ingredient of the sport: rate
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