Since the watch designer Gérald Genta designed the first Royal Oak watch for Audemars Piguet, the Royal Oak series has been around for 50 years. Since 1972 to date, the collection has launched more than 500 models, showing thousands of different personalities, while constantly incorporating new complications, materials and decorative elements. Best luxury Audemars Piguet Royal Oak clone watches online, buy replica watches at firstwatchclone.co.
Royal Oak series was born in the 1970s is a period of "innovation and individuality" intertwined. This decade has seen the emergence of new forms of expression in the fields of art, fashion and design, with opposition to established traditional fashions becoming the latest trend. Just like the official opening to the public of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, this daringly shaped building with giant transverse steel beams, called Le Ballet Metallique by designer Renzo Piano, challenged the traditional notion that "cultural architecture must be built of marble", which was at the time Society is widely debated.
This subversive example is only a glimpse in the torrent of the times. In 1972, when the first Royal Oak Royal Oak series watch, Ref. 5402, went against tradition and drew inspiration from the current industrial, architectural, and artistic design aesthetics, it used stainless steel to create a larger case and an integrated bracelet. The hexagonal screws are boldly assembled on the angular octagonal bezel, colliding and reshaping the existing cognition of the world at will. This new work, which recreates a luxury watch with stainless steel, caused a sensation without any surprise when it came out, and the traditional pattern of high-end watchmaking dominated by precious metals no longer exists. Elegance and sportiness seem to have found a reasonable and powerful best example, providing consumers at the time with a new wearing option that subverts stereotypes - a watch that can be worn on both formal occasions and leisure time. The Royal Oak also ushered in a new era of luxury sports watches.
The 1980s can be described as bizarre. This is an era of idols. With the widespread availability of CDs and VCRs, popular culture flourished. In 1982, singer Michael Jackson released the album "Thriller", which is still the best-selling album in the world; in 1984, singer Prince released the album "Purple Rain", which became one of the iconic albums of pop music in the 1980s... Countless Masterpieces and idols emerge in an endless stream, and they lead the trend of the times and set benchmarks with their unique charm and avant-garde works. As it should be, this is a decade of using the "idol" label.
The 1980s also belonged to the Royal Oak series, which was the decade when it established the status of a legendary "icon" in the field of fine watchmaking and established a pioneering attitude. In 1984, Audemars Piguet introduced the perpetual calendar function, one of the specialties of complex functions, into the Royal Oak series, and launched the first perpetual calendar function style (Ref. 5554ST), equipped with the Calibre 2120/2800 machine launched by Audemars Piguet in 1978 with a thickness of only 3.95 mm Movement – the world’s thinnest self-winding perpetual calendar movement with a central rotor at the time. The launch of the first Royal Oak series perpetual calendar watch has become Audemars Piguet's strongest response to the "quartz crisis" trend. Traditional complex watch functions still occupy a place in the impact of the new trend. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a revival. This is not only an important milestone in the history of the Royal Oak collection, but also a tribute to Audemars Piguet's unwavering ambitions for fine watchmaking.
Nearly 200 Royal Oak watches were born in this creative era. In 1993, the Royal Oak Offshore Royal Oak Offshore watch was officially launched. The eye-catching 42mm large case became the best interpretation of boldly challenging the limit, and quickly won the favor of the younger generation. In 1992, the first Royal Oak Skeleton Women's Watch came out, and the vigorous creativity of women's watches began. A total of 446 brilliant-cut diamonds are paved, and the hour markers are set with emeralds. The total weight of the stones is approximately 4.64 carats. In 1997, the tourbillon was used for the first time in the Royal Oak Royal Oak series (Ref. 25831OR); in the same year, the Royal Oak series ushered in the first chronograph (Ref. 25860) and the first time with a minute repeater, perpetual calendar and double Grand complication watch with split-seconds chronograph function (Ref. 25865BC)... A variety of new complications that showcase Audemars Piguet's watchmaking expertise continue to gain attention, spanning a variety of sizes, complications and materials, opening up new technologies for the brand with design milestones.
In the same way, the Royal Oak series revitalized the field of fine watchmaking with amazing technological innovations in the 2010s, creating a variety of possibilities. In 2015, the Royal Oak Concept series watch RD#1 was officially launched. This is a revolutionary minute repeater watch. It took eight years to develop and subvert the appearance, touch and even sound of mechanical timepieces. Supersonnerie. In 2018, the Royal Oak Royal Oak series watch RD#2 (Ref. 26585PT) was officially launched, equipped with an ultra-thin perpetual calendar automatic movement. In order to achieve such an amazing thin effect, Audemars Piguet engineers cleverly integrated the original three-layer perpetual calendar movement into a single-layer structure, setting an ultra-thin record for the current central oscillating weight self-winding perpetual calendar movement. The advent of this watch interprets the Royal Oak series' exploration of the delicate balance between refined aesthetics, ergonomic design, traditional watchmaking attainments and modern lifestyles, opening a new chapter for a new generation of complication watches.
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