The Silver Lining of Code 11:59

SIHH 2019. Code 11:59.Yawn. C’mon!
I can crap all over this new collection for Audemars Piquet, just like everyone else.  This post isn’t really about that.  I just want to make two points:

1 The Perpetual Calendar is A-OK.  

WATCH TECHNICAL DATA
Functions
Perpetual calendar with week indication
Day
Date
Astronomical moon
Month
Leap year
Hours
Minutes

Case
41 mm diameter
18-carat pink gold case
Glareproofed sapphire crystal and caseback
Water-resistant to 20 m

Dial
Blue aventurine dial and subdials
18-carat pink gold applied hour-markers and hands
Lacquered blue inner bezel

Strap
Hand-stitched “large square scale” blue alligator
strap with 18-carat pink gold folding clasp

MOVEMENT TECHNICAL DATA
Selfwinding Manufacture calibre 5134
Total diameter: 29 mm (123/4 lignes)
Total thickness: 4.31mm
Number of jewels: 38
Number of parts: 374
Minimal guaranteed power reserve: 40 h
Frequency of balance wheel:
2.75 Hz (= 19,800 vibrations/hour)

BLAH BLAH BLAH

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2- The Good with the Bad –

Guys and Gals- There a silver lining in this CODE 11:59 product offering.
How about when you’re walking down the street, at a party or dancing at the club and see someone wearing something that looks like a Code 11:59 reference. You can get all excited to see one, then supremely disappointed when it’s an Armani Exchange POS. Hopefully you will figure this out before asking the person wearing the watch about it. That way you won’t have to feign interest a non-AP watch. THE HORROR. (We’ve all done it.) And there’s the beauty of the Code 11:59 collection. At the end of this possibly bad interaction, you’ll be wishing you’d seen a 11:59 watch.