This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Royal Oak Offshore. A watch that was groundbreaking when first shown during the Basel watch fair in 1993, but it too... Read More...
I am a huge fan of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Extra-Thin, or as it was called before 2012, the 'Jumbo'. It was actually one of the watches that sparked my in... Read More...
One of my personal favorite wrist watches, ever, is the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. I have owned a couple of them and ended up with the reference 15202 'Jumbo'. ... Read More...
Gérald Genta Designs
You either like them or you don’t, Gérald Genta’s master pieces from the 1970s. Genta designed Omega watches for years (i.e. Constellation... Read More...
One of my all-time favorite watches is the Royal Oak. It is actually one of the models that got me into mechanical watches in the mid-1990s. Love at first sight... Read More...
In 2002, Audemars Piguet introduced their first Royal Oak Concept watch to celebrate the 30th birthday of the famous Royal Oak. Made out of Alacrite 602, which ... Read More...
Golfer Rory McIlroy (we featured him here in the past) just signed up with OMEGA and left Audemars Piguet. OMEGA immediately captured him in an advertisement fo... Read More...
French blogger Jean-Sébastien Volpé of un JOUR une MONTRE (which means something like "a watch per day") features a different watch every single day. His reader... Read More...
Royal Oak Offshore
Audemars Piguet's most popular collection is without a doubt the Royal Oak. Even more precise, the Royal Oak Offshore collection. This more s... Read More...
It is almost impossible that you didn't hear about the 40th anniversary of Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak this year. Designed by the legendary Gerald Genta in 1972... Read More...
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 'Jumbo', or ref.15202ST has always been one of our favorite - perhaps even the favorite - stainless steel luxury sports watches. D... Read More...
Another rare bird passed by my studio the other day: the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph City of Sails (ref.25860'IS.0.1110IS.01).I must admit that AP... Read More...
Exactly one year ago, I bought an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph (also nick named 'ROC') ref.26300 to accompany my precious Royal Oak 'Jumbo' ref.15202. ... Read More...
When the recently passed away watch designing legend Gerald Génta (more on his work here) was working on the octagonal shaped Royal Oak, he designed a sports wa... Read More...
Dr Franco Gussalli Beretta, one of the Managing Directors of the famous Italian firearms manufacturer Beretta and descendant of the founder, explains in a short... Read More...
If it weren't for the guys over at Hodinkee to notify me, I probably wouldn't even have noticed that Audemars Piguet's golf ambassador Rory McIlroy is wearing t... Read More...
Someone over at TimeZone's AP forum asked the following simple question: Which AP started it for you? My answer needed some extra work, as Audemars Piguet's 199... Read More...
Earlier this year, during a visit to Munich, I walked into this little watch shop near the city center and I was amazed by the collection they had. Tried on an ... Read More...
The original Royal Oak 'Jumbo' ref.5402 is being offered for sale by a member of the TimeZone community by the name of Tangaroa. He is the second owner of this ... Read More...
About a week ago, I had the opportunity to give the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver (ref.15703ST.OO.A002CA.01) a try. This Offshore Diver was introduce... Read More...
Watch designer Genta designed a number of watches that turned into icons. Best example is the first stainless steel luxury watch he designed in 1972, the Royal ... Read More...
Gérald Genta, designer of numerous icons in horological history, presented a design to Swedish watch brand Arlanch. We all know Genta best for his outspoken R... Read More...
On the 30th of October 1972, Gerald Genta (then having an important assignment for Audemars Piguet) filed a patent in the United States for his master piece, th... Read More...
Although Audemars Piguet thinks that all their watches are limited editions, the Royal Oak Off-Shore Monte Napoleone really seems to be restricted to 100 pieces... Read More...
I just ran across this advertisement over at Chrono24, when I did a query on Jumbo models. First of all, this isn't a 'Jumbo' of course, easily to recognize sin... Read More...
To quote Don (Michael) Corleone in Godfather Part III, "Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in!". Just when I thought that this Audemars Piguet R... Read More...
About a year ago, I wrote that the Royal Oak Date ref.15300 could be more interesting than the famous Royal Oak 'Jumbo' Ref.15202 (click here for the article). ... Read More...
The Watch Lounge asked for a short story about my favorite watch and for what reason it is my favorite watch. Although this watch has been covered here numerous... Read More...
People who love (luxury) watches will also be able to appreciate the other finer things of life. One of these finer things is - of course -?Ǭ fashion and in t... Read More...
When the first Royal Oak was introduced in 1972, nobody could have guessed how popular the design would be in the 21st century. Based on that original design, A... Read More...
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