Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Watch Review

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Watch Review

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Watch Review

While Royal Oaks have existed 

Inside a bewildering number of forms given that they first made an appearance at Baselworld in 1972, they're also, because of their collectibility and recognition, very extensively recorded. Obviously, the vast a few different references also afford them the ability that unicorns can from time to time be spotted however this appears to become a rather rare event. Lately at Material Good, in Manhattan, we discovered a Royal Oak which, while not strictly a unicorn, is nevertheless very unusual at the minimum.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Watch Review

Based on AP, this is actually the reference 14884BA. It is a gold Royal Oak, having a quite spectacular dial, cut away and engraved by having an anchor-and-rope motif. The anchor is definitely an apparent nod towards the maritime inspiration behind the name, and style, from the Royal Oak, and also the watch seems never to happen to be polished (among the first things Royal Oak enthusiasts learn is it is trivially simple to ruin the geometry of the Royal Oak situation through inexpert polishing and regrettably, it's became of a number of Royal Oaks through the years).

The dial engraving includes a wonderful feeling 

Of depth and texture and you may see something don't frequently see with Royal Oaks, the dial side of caliber 2120. The AP emblem is printed on the azure very.

AP states this watch was initially offered in Hong Kong, in 1993, which may place it within the best time period for this to possess occurred to celebrate the twentieth anniversary from the Royal Oak. This could also seem sensible when it comes to reference figures - the Royal Oak Jubilee Special Edition is ref. 14802 and it was also produced in 1993 (one of these simple, that have been produced in an edition of 1000 that first launched in 1992, offered for CHF 15,000 at Christie's Geneva in 2011). I have attempted to locate any reference to this unique reference online, and I have attracted an empty - including searching with the archived Royal Oak database that was once at royaloakclub.com, utilized while using Wayback Machine.

AP states that although this is not really a unique piece, it had been produced in really small figures ("quite rare" within their archivist's words) and that i are only able to think that the dog owner(s) were not inclined to publish images additionally, however a number of these references were created, there have been apparently couple of enough they have never show up for auction either (or maybe they did, the auction pre-dated online auction marketplace archives in the major players). Material Good's Take advantage of Ronen states, "Getting offered Audemars Piguet's timepieces since opening our doorways in 2015, once the chance to source this type of rare Royal Oak came about, we understood we'd to complete all things in our capacity to secure it." "Quite rare," appears to become putting it mildly if AP states you will find others available, I am sure they are right but they are certainly very elusive.

Although I have never witnessed 

This reference before (in certain twenty five years of quarrelling about watches on the web) I actually do remember seeing some similar references, also with cut-out dials, however with different motifs, a long time ago within my days like a moderator on ThePuristS.com - I recall particularly one by having an open-wheel Grand Prix vehicle motif, however it would be a lengthy time ago and regrettably any memory I've of particulars is lengthy gone, presuming individuals pictures were of 20th anniversary models to begin with. The only real other cut-out anchor dial AP I have seen is an extremely different animal - there is one apparently designed for Marcus Margulies at Marcus based in london in 2000, but that's whether white-colored gold or platinum model, also it was apparently a custom piece, not really a (very) small series, because this the first is.