Presenting the Audemars Piguet Millenary Quincy Jones – Now That’s a Watch!

Sometimes the expression of a particular watch design can often “make it or break it.” Here is an example of a watch design that definitely “makes it” – the just announced Audemars Piguet Millenary Quincy Jones Limited Edition.  Audemars Piguet has released several different variations of the Millenary, and I think this one is by far its best.  It is a watch unconditionally fitting of a Music Impresario such as Quincy Jones. The watch – limited to 500 pieces – has a blackened and polished steel case with the Millenary’s signature “off-center” positioning of the hours, minutes and seconds functions. The case back is engraved with Quincy Jones’ signature, and also reads “Millenary Quincy Jones – Limited Edition” as a reminder of its exclusivity. The piece is comes on a black leather strap with matching “AP” folding clasp. The watch contains Audemars Piguet’s in-house Caliber 3120.

Who is Quincy Jones, you ask? He is arguably the most successful and accomplished musician, composer, producer, arranger and conductor of all time!  Some of you may know him as the producer of Thriller, by late pop icon Michael Jackson.  Others, for his landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block–named “Album Of The Year” at the 1990 Grammy Awards– which brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to create the first fusion of the be bop and hip hop musical traditions.  You can click here to learn more about him on The Official Quincy Jones Website.

The Man With 27 Grammy Awards to his name

The Kind of Watch That is Made In Honor of A Man with 27 Grammys

Jumping back to my opening statement, take a minute to visually contrast the Millenary Quincy Jones to another recently released take on the Millenary – the Carbon One Tourbillon Chronograph. Although the Carbon One Tourbillon Chronograph is in some ways a “cool” looking watch, its expression just does not seem to fit the Millenary collection very well – particularly when compared to the refined elegance of the Quincy Jones version.

There is one other pretty spectacular Millenary, the Millenary Piano Forte (profiled by my fellow watch blogger Monochrome) – which not by coincidence was also created in honor of Quincy Jones - but even this fine watch does not surpass the refined and sophisticated look of the Millenary Quincy Jones, in my view

What do you think?

Oh – last thing – if you are wondering when and where might you see this watch first in person – look no further than Geneva…January 2010…at the SIHH.

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