NOT FOR RELEASE BEFORE APRIL 18, 1991
European Watch Clock and Jewellery Fair 1991 BF 221
Technology occasionally has its poetic side at Audemars Piguet’s. Take
the new “Star Wheel” design, featuring a novel, unexpected way of reading
the time without watch hands. At the centre of the watch rotate a wheel and three stars. The hour figure (inscribed on a sapphire disc) moves onto a “sectorial” type dial, graduated from 1 to 60, to indicate the minutes. Never before found on a wristwatch, this system was used once, on a pocket watch, in the latter years of the 18th century. (AUDEMARS PIGUET “Star Wheel”)