Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph

One name: Gerald Genta. 

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak is perhaps Genta’s most memorable work, and in many ways changed the shape of the watch industry.

The Royal Oak essentially created an entirely new category of 'luxury sport' timepieces, and with it came a new design language that inspired countless other manufactures. What's particularly delightful about the design of the Royal Oak is that it works brilliantly in a number of sizes and casing materials, from stainless steel to carbon fiber to solid gold.

This particular Royal Oak is a chronograph model, Reference 26022OR.OO.D088CR.01 from the early 2000s. Housed in a substantial 39mm rose gold case with a sapphire crystal, a signed crown, a vertically satin brushed bezel, and screw-down chronograph pushers, it features a luminous white grande tapisserie dial with applied rectangular indices, a matching 'bathtub' handset, a date wheel at 4:30, and a triple-register chronograph with silver chronograph totalizers. Powered by the Audemars Piguet Calibre 2385 automatic movement, it comes paired to an integrated, signed brown leather strap with an AP-signed folding clasp.

For the larger-wristed guy — or someone who simply prefers a more formidable timepiece — this Royal Oak Chronograph is the ideal modern watch. Once you've tried it on, we're sure you'll agree! 

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 Genta, who would make his name for designing this very watch, AP planned from the beginning to make this new watch - dubbed the Royal Oak - a contradiction to tradition, and it became the world's first luxury sports watch. Made in steel. The gamble paid off, and the watch world clamored to get their hands on the cutting edge design, which featured a sharply angled watch with integrated bracelet, micro tapisserie dial, and ultra thin movement.

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