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 capable of running perfectly at 43,200 vph
or 6 hertz-even with no lubrication on the pallet stones, which would
quickly dissipate at that speed anyway. The omission of lubricant solves
an issue that has plagued watchmakers provided that mechanical
timepieces have been around: gumming or hardening with the oil.
This fresh escapement is founded on an invention by Parisian royal
clockmaker Robert Robin (1742-1799). He produced new system in 1791 that
combined the virtues present in well-known escapements throughout,
so-called free-sprung escapement and one including energy transfer via
pallet fork and guard pin in the precursor for the modern Swiss lever
escapement as introduced by Thosmas Mudge in 1759.
Audemars Piguet has succeeded in securing the attributes of both
systems in its new high-frequency escapement, solving the oil problem
and introducing the latest and important ingredient of the experience:
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