Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph in stainless steel with a blue Grande Tapisserie pattern

Legendary former footballer Thierry Henry was during the Best Ligue 1 Player award in Paris (won by Kylian Mbappé) held a few weeks ago, wearing a 39mm, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph in stainless steel with a blue Grande Tapisserie pattern dial that features bicolored counters.

Can you spot the Hublot model Mbappé is wearing?

Watch Description

Whereas the Royal Oak’s initial intricacies came in the early 1980s, it took Audemars Piguet over 25 years to redesign the watch by adding two push buttons to the outside of the casing. Audemars Piguet managed to fit one of the flat self-winding Chrono calibers ever built in its time while staying true to the original “Jumbo” diameter of 39MM. The first Audemars Piguet Royal Oak self-winding chronograph frequently likened to the Rolex Daytona 116520 and offered for a similar 14-year period (1998-circa 2011) is now a collector’s timepiece in its own right.

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph stainless steel is generally an incredible timepiece of all time. It features a central stainless steel link bracelet, scratch-free sapphire crystals, and a folding deployment clasp. This watch also comes with a solid case back sealed with eight screws and inscribed with “ROYAL OAK” as well as a serial number. This is, in addition, to screw down signature hexagonal winding crown featuring crown protectors, rounded chronograph push buttons with hexagonal screw-down shanks.

On a stainless steel band with a folding buckle, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph has a 39mm stainless steel casing with a blue Grande Tapiserrie display. Hours, minutes, tiny seconds, dates, and chronographs are among the features of this AP Royal Oak. The thickness of this Audemars Piguet timepiece is 11.2mm, and the lug-to-lug distance is 49.4mm.

Furthermore, this watch features a dazzling triangular indicator at 12 o’clock, rounded steel baton hourly, and minute pointers with luminescent inserts. This includes a middle sweep orange Chrono seconds hand and a wedge-shaped counterbalance.

A 12-hour Chrono totalizer is positioned at 9 o’clock, a constantly moving tiny seconds recorder is at 6 o’clock, and a 30-minute Chrono timer is at 3 o’clock. They all feature black Arabic numerals, markings, railway-style scaling, and orange highlight marker hands. An orange Arabic numeral 60-second Chrono scale runs all around blue exterior rehaut, with a date hole display between 4 and 5 o’clock.

In addition, this Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph has a water resistance of up to 50 meters or 165 feet. It also features a 40-hour power reserve when fully wound and is engraved on the casing, movement, and dial.

A mechanical automated self-winding AP caliber 2385 column-wheel Chrono movement powers this Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph. It has 37 jewels, 304 parts, as well as a monometallic balancing adjustable to heat, cold, isochronism, and 5 locations. Its rhodium plated with cotes de Geneve and engine-turned decoration. It also has a 22K gold rotor, a self-compensating flat balancing spring, and a shock absorber mechanism. The system oscillates at a rate of 21,600 vph (3 Hz).

Price market: $65,000.00+ USD
Reference: 26300ST.OO.1110ST.07

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