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 competent at running perfectly at 43,200 vph
or 6 hertz-even without any lubrication in the pallet stones, which
would quickly dissipate at that speed anyway. The omission of lubricant
solves problems which includes plagued watchmakers as long as mechanical
timepieces have endured: gumming or hardening in the oil.
This fresh escapement is based on an invention by Parisian royal
clockmaker Robert Robin (1742-1799). He created a new system in 1791
that combined the virtues of these two well-known escapements through
the day, so-called free-sprung escapement and one including energy
transfer via pallet fork and guard pin included in the precursor towards
modern Swiss lever escapement as introduced by Thosmas Mudge in 1759.
Audemars Piguet has succeeded in securing the important things about
both systems in its new high-frequency escapement, solving the oil
problem and introducing a new and important ingredient of the game: rate
precision.”see more rolex svizzera and Breitling Skyland Avenger
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