Overall Condition: Excellent overall condition with only minor wear showing on the bezels. The crystal, dial, and hands are all in excellent condition. Audemars Piguet, the vaunted manufacture from Les Brassus, wasn't doing so well at the end of the 1960s. Their horological prowess aside, times were changing, customer tastes were evolving, and AP was stuck firmly in a very traditional past. Fortunately for us, their executives recognized this, and bet it all on the launch of an avant-garde timepiece the likes of which the world had never seen. Utilizing the talents of a designer named Gerald G