Since Carl F. Bucherer made his aluminum movement of the A1000 caliber in 2010 with an automatic peripheral rotor, I felt that more clocks were needed to integrate the peripheral rotors in their mechanical movements. For 2014, Audemars Piguet releases a new ultra-high-end version of replica watches the Royal Oak Offshore with a new automatic peripheral rotor with visible dial that exists in addition to a tourbillon and chronograph complication.
What is an "automatic peripheral rotor mounted on a knob?" Many of you know, but I have just realized that non-watch lovers may have difficulty understanding the concept. The automatic rotors are part of the "self-winding" system of a mechanical watch and tend to be formed as semicircles positioned at the rear of the movement. These half circle weights move with the movement of the wrist and wrap around the main barrel that feeds the movement of the watch. A problem that some enthusiasts have with automatic movements is that the rotors block much of the movement (even if they can be moved) and cause larger movements.
Automatic peripheral rotors do not sit above a movement, but rather around it. There is usually a crescent-shaped weight that moves along a track that acts as a rotor. Here are the movements like Carl F. Bucherer A1000 (and others with peripheral rotors mounted on the back). In a watch like the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph, the automatic peripheral rotor is actually mounted around the top of the movement, and in this case, visible through the watch dial. In this watch, the rotor must be heavy enough to properly wrap the movement so that the Audemars Piguet and Renaud & Papi (where the movement is produced) make the peripheral rotor from platinum.
The automatic peripheral rotor mounted on the dial is a feature of the movement of the existing 2897 Audemars Piguet caliber that debuted a few years ago. Operating at 3Hz with 65 replica watches uk hours of power reserve, the movement is extremely finely decorated and visible through the back of the watch. Of course, there is no rotor to lock the wide level of manual finishing on the movement, which is exactly why the peripheral rotors are evaluated. This new 2014 version of the watch is essentially a new version of the Ariemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Automatic Tourbillon Chronograph ref. 26550AU.OO.A002CA.01 originally debuted in 2011, but never actually put up for sale. So in a sense this new model is the sum of the project started by the brand years ago.