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Pre-Owned Audemars Piguet Millenary Chronograph 18K Rose Gold — Silver Dial (Ref. 26145OR.OO.D093CR.01)
The Millenary was designed to look like nothing else in Audemars Piguet’s catalogue — an oval case, an off-centre dial, and the deliberate abandonment of the round-and-symmetrical instinct almost every dress watch obeys.
Available now at Black Tag Watches (Aventura, Florida), this pre-owned example — reference 26145OR.OO.D093CR.01 — is cased in 18K rose gold, powered by the manufacture calibre 2226/2840, and offered in mint condition with its original Audemars Piguet warranty certificate and AP travel pouch.
What Is the Audemars Piguet Millenary Chronograph?
A Collection Built Around Deliberate Asymmetry
Audemars Piguet launched the Millenary line in 1995 as the collection that would carry the maison across the turn of the millennium — the name itself is the citation. From the first reference forward, the Millenary was defined by a case shape almost no other haute horlogerie house had committed to at the same scale: an oval three-part construction, a dial offset to one side of the case rather than centred within it, and a design vocabulary that treated symmetry as a choice rather than a requirement. Two and a half decades later, the 26145OR remains one of the most architecturally confident expressions of that argument in the pre-owned Audemars Piguet market.
A Discontinued Reference in a Distinctive Configuration
The Millenary Chronograph in rose gold has been discontinued in this specific dial and case configuration — which is the collector’s relevant context. The 26145OR was produced in modest numbers relative to the Royal Oak family throughout its production life, and examples in mint condition with documented papers are becoming progressively harder to locate on the secondary market. For buyers evaluating pre-owned Audemars Piguet chronographs outside the Royal Oak family, the discontinued status of the rose gold Millenary Chronograph is a supply argument that operates independently of the watch’s horological credentials — which are, in their own right, substantial.
Dial & Case Design: Oval Three-Part Case, Off-Centre Architecture
The Oval Case Construction
The 41 by 37mm oval case is rendered in 18K rose gold across a three-part construction: a brushed and polished caseband screwed to a solid caseback and framed by a fixed bezel that follows the case’s oval geometry. The chronograph pushers flank a signed rose gold crown at 3 o’clock. The result is a case silhouette that no other manufacture in the current haute horlogerie landscape has committed to at the same production scale — the Millenary oval is an Audemars Piguet proprietary shape in a way that even the Royal Oak octagon is not, because the octagon was Genta’s idea and the oval was AP’s own sustained argument.
The Off-Centre Dial: Architecture Over Convention
The dial is the collection’s defining feature and the clearest statement of the Millenary’s design philosophy. The primary time display sits offset to the right of centre — a silver textured field bearing applied rose gold Roman numeral hour markers, swept by rose gold leaf hands. An anthracite outer ring carries a white tachymeter scale in Arabic numerals that increase in size around the periphery. The three chronograph counters occupy the left side of the dial in a triangular arrangement: small seconds at 12, 30-minute counter at 9, and 12-hour counter at 6. A framed date aperture sits at 3 o’clock. The composition is asymmetric by design. It reads as architecture rather than as dial layout — which is the Millenary brief, stated plainly.
Movement: Manufacture Audemars Piguet Calibre 2226/2840
The JLC 889/1 Base and Its Significance
Inside the Millenary Chronograph 26145OR is the manufacture Audemars Piguet calibre 2226/2840 — an automatic chronograph movement of 54 jewels beating at 28,800 vph with an approximate 42-hour power reserve. The 2226 base is Audemars Piguet’s variant of the Jaeger-LeCoultre calibre 889/1 — one of the most respected automatic ébauches of the modern era, used in varying forms by AP, JLC, and other Vallée de Joux makers as the foundation for high-quality automatic movements. The horological genealogy is unambiguous: this is a serious base calibre with a serious lineage.
The 2840 Chronograph Module and Its Royal Oak Offshore Connection
The 2840 chronograph module is supplied by Dubois-Dépraz — the Vallée de Joux specialist that has furnished chronograph modules to Blancpain, Vacheron Constantin, Breguet, and Chopard. Within the Audemars Piguet catalogue, the 2226/2840 carries a specific provenance: it was the movement inside every Royal Oak Offshore chronograph from the reference’s launch in 1993 through 2007, when it was replaced by the fully in-house calibre 3126/3840. In the Millenary, the same movement sits behind an oval case rather than an octagonal one — but the horological credentials are identical to the pre-2007 Royal Oak Offshore chronograph, at a fraction of the secondary-market price.
Movement Specifications
Specification
Detail
Calibre
AP 2226/2840, automatic chronograph
Base
JLC 889/1 variant
Chrono module
Dubois-Dépraz 2840
Jewels
54
Frequency
28,800 vph (4 Hz)
Power reserve
~42 hours
Layout
Small sec at 12, 30-min at 9, 12-hr at 6, date at 3
Condition, Provenance & Documentation
Warranty Certificate and Travel Pouch
This example is offered with its original Audemars Piguet warranty certificate and the AP travel pouch, but without the original presentation box. For a Millenary Chronograph in rose gold — a reference produced in modest numbers and now discontinued in this configuration — a complete provenance file with documented warranty papers is the meaningful long-term signal. The rose gold AP-signed tang buckle is present and original, which is the point of provenance that matters most at the strap level.
Condition and Accessories
Detail
Information
Condition
Mint
Box
No
Papers
AP warranty certificate
Accessories
AP travel pouch
Strap
Brown alligator leather
Buckle
Original AP 18K rose gold tang
Full Specifications — Audemars Piguet Millenary Chronograph 26145OR.OO.D093CR.01
Specification
Detail
Brand
Audemars Piguet
Collection
Millenary Chronograph
Reference
26145OR.OO.D093CR.01
Case
18K rose gold, 41 x 37mm oval
Construction
Three-part, solid screwed caseback
Dial
Off-centre silver + anthracite outer ring
Tachymeter
White Arabic scale on anthracite ring
Layout
Offset time right; sec 12, 30-min 9, 12-hr 6, date 3
Hands
Rose gold leaf
Movement
AP calibre 2226/2840, automatic
Base
JLC 889/1 + Dubois-Dépraz 2840
Jewels
54
Frequency
28,800 vph
Power reserve
~42 hours
Strap
Brown alligator
Buckle
Original AP 18K rose gold tang
Condition
Mint
Box & Papers
Papers only
Accessories
AP travel pouch
Why Buy a Pre-Owned Audemars Piguet Millenary Chronograph?
The Same Movement as the Pre-2007 Royal Oak Offshore — at a Different Price
The most direct case for the 26145OR is a single horological fact: it shares its base movement with every Royal Oak Offshore chronograph produced between 1993 and 2007 — the generation that established the Offshore as a genre-defining reference. The calibre 2226/2840 in the Millenary oval case is the same combination of JLC-derived base and Dubois-Dépraz chronograph module that powered the most collected Offshore references of that era. The case shape is different; the movement credentials are identical; the secondary-market price reflects the case shape rather than the movement.
A Discontinued Oval-Case Chronograph in a Waiting-List Market
Against the contemporary AP rose gold catalogue and against the current secondary market for any Royal Oak in gold, the Millenary Chronograph 26145OR offers direct entry into Audemars Piguet at a level that rewards horological literacy over badge recognition. Auction results at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Antiquorum place the 26145OR at a level that trades quietly and consistently — without the volatility that defines the octagonal side of the collection. For the collector who wants a manufacture AP chronograph in rose gold with documented provenance, the Millenary is the version of that proposition the market has not yet fully priced correctly.
Available at Black Tag Watches — Aventura, Florida
Black Tag Watches is a pre-owned luxury watch dealer based in Aventura, FL, specialising in rare, certified, and fully documented timepieces from Audemars Piguet and the world’s leading Swiss manufactures.
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A rose-gold oval-case Audemars Piguet chronograph — architecturally deliberate, mechanically serious, and quiet about the bezel it isn’t.
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