Audemars Piguet’s newly crafted selfwinding chronograph brings the aesthetics of the past into the present. The Audemars Piguet [Re]master01 Self-Winding Chronograph is the first watch to launch the [Re]master line by reiterating the handsome design of a 1943 original in a slightly confused, albeit still very good-looking package.
In terms of design, it now has a two-tone aesthetic with a round case and teardrop-shaped lugs in stainless steel. On the 40mm case, you’ll find 18-carat pink gold finishing on the pencil-thin bezel, olive-shaped pushers, and a chamfered crown. But what it protects underneath unveils so much more than just a two-tone look. The dial itself offers plenty of detail, making it the ideal classic chronograph.
That’s an important distinction to make. It’s far from just semantics. The former would be about being faithful to an original in form, while the latter is more about being faithful to an original in concept. The [Re]master01 looks, on a black background, very similar to the original watch from 1943, but if you take a look at the spec sheet or see the watch in the metal, you quickly realize it’s more than that. The watch is 40mm across and neither particularly thick nor thin for a modern automatic chronograph.
It still retains that distinctive two-tone case though, with the caseband, lugs, and caseback made of stainless steel and the bezel, crown, and pushers made of pink gold. That’s then paired with a gold-toned dial that hovers somewhere between champagne and yellow, with vertical brushing and crisp printing. The chronograph hands and tachymeter scale are printed in blue, adding a punch of color, and the chronograph minutes totalizer also includes a red 45 (again preserved from the original) that’s meant for timing the halves of a soccer match. My favorite vintage touch though? The old-school “Audemars, Piguet & Co / Genève” logo. It’s just so cool looking.
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