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Alexandra Zagalsky

Wandering star: Audemars Piguet’s new Code 11.59 Starwheel watch

Engmatic and alluring, this timepiece has a suitably spiritual backstory

Audemars Piguet’s new code 11.59 Starwheel watch has papal provenance. The movement is a modern interpretation of a wandering hours complication first devised for Pope Alexander VII in the 17th century by Giuseppe, Pietro Tomasso and Matteo Campani – otherwise known as the Campani Brothers – who were the clockmaking maestros of the Renaissance. 

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