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Model reference: 26393CR.OO.A002KB.01
The 41 mm Code 11.59 chronograph 26393CR.OO.A002KB.01, with a smoked lacquered grey dial that darkens to near-black at the rim, three counters and a black woven strap.
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About this watch
The 26393CR.OO.A002KB.01 is the 41 mm Code 11.59 chronograph with a smoked lacquered grey dial and a sunburst pattern, published by Audemars Piguet with an 18-carat pink gold case and a fabric strap. The dial takes applied markers and hands in the same warm metal with black accents, and the reference is documented with the in-house calibre 4401, an integrated flyback chronograph built around a column wheel and a vertical clutch. Water resistance is published at 30 m.
The four frames below are shown as they arrived, and they answer four different questions. The front frame settles how the dial's smoked finish and the two case tones sit together; the angled frame shows the case flank with the crown and both pushers; the close-up is where the print, the marker shapes and the three printed counter scales can actually be read; the last frame runs along the case side, where the eight-sided middle section steps in beneath the round bezel.
What the frames cannot settle belongs in the questions you put before agreeing anything: what each part of the watch being offered is made of, which strap comes with it, and whether the chronograph in front of you starts, resets and flies back as the design intends. The two things this reference does differently from a plain round chronograph — the smoked dial and the eight-sided body inside a round bezel — each have their own section below.
The 26393CR.OO.A002KB.01 is the chronograph version of the Code 11.59 in a 41 mm case, published with an 18-carat pink gold case, a smoked lacquered grey dial with a sunburst pattern, and a fabric strap. The dial carries applied hour markers and hands in a warm metal with black accents, and the reference is documented with the in-house calibre 4401, an integrated flyback chronograph with a column wheel and a vertical clutch.
What identifies this one at a glance is the configuration rather than the case: a dial that darkens toward its rim, three counters, and a strap rather than a bracelet. The frames on this page are the reference point for the rest of the text — every statement about colour, layout or finish below is tied to something visible in them, and everything the frames cannot show is listed in the inquiry list at the foot of the page.
The lacquer is not even across the dial: it darkens from the middle toward the outer edge, so the sunburst pattern reads most clearly as a lighter, warmer zone in the centre and fades into near-black at the rim. That is the point of the finish — it pulls the eye inward to the counters instead of outward to the edge.
In the close-up frame the effect is easy to follow. The three counters sit in the lighter middle zone, where the printed scales and the counter hands stay legible, while the applied markers and the numeral twelve sit further out and read against the darker band because they are raised and catch light on their facets. The minute track and the BASE 1000 scale near the rim are printed in a pale colour precisely because that is where the dial is at its darkest.
The eight sides are in the middle case, not in the bezel. On this watch the bezel is round, the mid case beneath it carries the octagonal geometry, and the case back is a third separate element, so what you have is a round dial in a round bezel sitting on an eight-sided body rather than a round watch with a screw-set octagonal frame.
The case-side frame is where that construction can be followed plainly: the flank runs straight along the eight sides of the middle section, which steps in under the round bezel and leaves a shallow ledge where the two meet. The crown sits at the centre of that flank between the two chronograph pushers, set into the eight-sided section rather than into the bezel, which is why the crown and pushers read as part of the body of the watch rather than attachments to its face.
Three counters sit at three, six and nine o'clock, and their printed scales are the quickest way to tell them apart. The counter at nine carries a ten, twenty, thirty scale, the counter at three is numbered two through twelve, and the counter at six runs twenty, forty, sixty.
The arrangement matters more than the count because it decides how the dial is read. The hour and minute hands share the centre with a thin chronograph seconds hand, the small dial at six is the only one that moves continuously, and the two elapsed-time counters stay where they are until the chronograph is started. Whether the watch being offered actually runs that way — start, stop, reset and flyback — is a question about the individual watch rather than about the reference, and it is one of the things a still frame cannot answer.
The case measures 41 mm across and is a round head on an eight-sided body, so it sits closer to a round watch than the construction might suggest, with the flanks of the mid case providing most of the visual width. Because the crown and pushers project from that flank, the watch reads a little wider at three o'clock than at nine.
Fit comes down to numbers the frames cannot supply. Ask for the case thickness and the lug-to-lug distance, measure your wrist where you would actually wear the watch, and compare both against a watch you already own in a similar diameter. A photograph of this watch on a wrist, taken from a step back rather than close in, will tell you more about the fit than any figure quoted from a table.
Four things cannot be settled from the frames: what each part of the watch being offered is made of, which strap is supplied with it, what state the chronograph and its pushers are in, and what it costs to get it to you. The reference is published with an 18-carat pink gold case and a fabric strap, but that describes the reference, not the individual watch.
The way to close those gaps is to ask for something specific rather than for reassurance: the metal of the case, the bezel, the crown and the pushers stated plainly; the strap supplied described and photographed; a photograph of the movement through the case back; and the cost of the watch together with shipping to your country. Put it all in writing before anything is agreed, and judge the finish of the case and dial from fresh photographs of the watch as it stands rather than from studio images of the model.
Specification
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Model reference | 26393CR.OO.A002KB.01 |
| Model size | 41 mm |
| Dial | Smoked lacquered grey with a sunburst pattern, darker toward the rim |
| Dial print | AUDEMARS PIGUET above the centre, SWISS MADE along the base, and a pale BASE 1000 scale on the outer track |
| Bezel design | Round and polished, sitting over an eight-sided middle case |
| Bezel graduations | None on the bezel itself; the scale marked BASE 1000 is printed on the outer edge of the dial |
| Hour-marker layout | Applied markers at every hour position, with an applied numeral twelve at the top |
| Hour markers | Applied baton markers in a warm tone with pale inserts, plus the applied numeral twelve |
| Hand arrangement | Baton hour and minute hands in the same warm tone with dark accents, a thin centre chronograph seconds hand, and short counter hands in the three subdials |
| Date display | Aperture in the lower right quadrant between the four and five o'clock markers, showing a single numeral |
| Subdial layout | Three counters at three, six and nine o'clock: a two-to-twelve scale at three, a ten-twenty-thirty scale at nine and a twenty-forty-sixty scale at six |
| Colour combination | As shown in the frames: a dial reading warm at the centre and near-black at the rim, a pale-toned bezel above a warmer-toned mid case, and a black woven strap |
| Strap shown | Black woven fabric with a fine ribbed texture, pale stitching along its edges and a dark lining |
| Colour (reference design) | 18-carat pink gold case with a smoked lacquered grey dial, as published for this reference |
| Movement (reference design) | In-house calibre 4401, an integrated flyback chronograph with a column wheel and a vertical clutch |
| Case and bezel (reference design) | 18-carat pink gold, 41 mm, with the eight-sided geometry carried by the mid case |
| Case construction | Bezel, mid case and case back as three separate elements, with the octagonal form in the mid case only, as seen in the case-side frame |
| Water resistance (reference design) | Published rating of 30 m |
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