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Royal Oak
Compare this collectionRoyal Oak
1972
The original luxury steel sports watch with an octagonal bezel and eight visible screws, designed overnight by Gérald Genta.
- Category
- Luxury sports watch
- Designers
- Gérald Genta
- Case materials
- Stainless steel, 18k rose gold, titanium, two-tone
- Sizes
- 33mm – 41mm
- Dial
- Tapisserie guilloché dial in blue, black, silver, smoked green
- Crystal
- Sapphire
- Strap / bracelet
- Integrated steel bracelet, leather strap
- Movements
- Calibre 4302, 7121, 5134
- Movement type
- Automatic and manual
- Power reserve
- 40 – 70 hours
- Water resistance
- 50m
- Complications
- Date · Chronograph · Perpetual calendar
- Key references
- 15500ST, 15202ST, 26331ST
- Price band
- USD 25,000 – 150,000
The house
Audemars Piguet
One of the 'Holy Trinity' of Swiss haute horlogerie, celebrated for pioneering the luxury steel sports watch with the Royal Oak in 1972.
- Founded
- 1875
- Founder
- Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet
- Headquarters
- Le Brassus
- Signature materials
- Forged carbon, ceramic, titanium, tapisserie-guilloché dials
- Signature movements
- In-house Calibre 4302, 3120, 2385 (perpetual calendar), 2954 (tourbillon)
- Notable designers
- Gérald Genta (Royal Oak)
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