Audemars Piguet Ladies' Royal Oak Watch Review

Audemars Piguet Ladies' Royal Oak Watch Review

Audemars Piguet Ladies' Royal Oak Watch Review

In 1972, Audemars Piguet first introduced 

Audemars Piguet Ladies' Royal Oak Watch Review

The Gerald Genta-designed Royal Oak towards the market. It had been iconoclastic as you would expect. Since that time, the Royal Oak is becoming probably the most instantly-recognizable watches on the planet and early vintage examples are highly searched for after. But whatever you decide and not know, is the fact that in 1976 the initial ladies' Royal Oak, created by Jacqueline Dimier, was launched. Which makes this season the 40th anniversary from the ladies' Royal Oak and Audemars Piguet has partnered track of Florentine jewelry expert Carolina Bucci to celebrate, releasing four new women's watches with a brand new frosted gold finish.

The brand new frosted gold Royal Oaks are available 

In two metals, white-colored and rose gold, and 2 sizes, 33mm and 37mm. Timepieces keep up with the same general design because the classic Royal Oak and have an attractive silvered tapisserie dial with center seconds and date. The 33mm watches are operated by the caliber 2713, which, regrettably, is really a quarta movement movement - AP makes such great in-house movements which are frequently present in Royal Oaks and it is a letdown to determine something quarta movement used here. However, the manufacture redeems itself using the automatic (yay!) caliber 3120 within the 37mm versions. However the most impressive detail about these watches may be the hammered gold finish that covers the whole watch, from situation to bracelet.

So what is frosted gold? Well, it's the consequence of an old technique (also known as the Florentine technique) where gold is hammered frequently until it makes an evenly textured, shimmering appearance on the top of metal. Carolina Bucci, a Florentine jewellery designer, continues to be by using this way of decades in her own shop. Bucci utilizes a gemstone-tipped tool to produce a layer of small indentations, which makes the top of metal appear frosted (hence, frosted gold).

The form and finished from the situation 

And bracelet are what result in the Royal Oak the Royal Oak whatsoever, so messing by using it must be done carefully. Audemars Piguet and Bucci required the Florentine technique and labored together in putting it on to the top of gold cases and bracelets from the new ladies' Royal Oak watches without altering the fundamental geometry. The conclusion results in a shimmery effect without adding diamonds, which (despite my secret passion for jewelry) feels fresh these days, also it breathes new existence into something all of us assume we known very well.

However I think what Audemars has been doing well this is actually the usage of a powerful female designer for example Carolina Bucci, who's transporting around the legacy from the influential types of Jaqueline Dimier, probably the most important female watch designers ever.