The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

Watchmakers regularly introduce existing watches 

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

In new colors and new metals. Sometimes this seems like incremental news, and often it seems like you are getting another watch. Both of these releases certainly fall under the second camp. Each day before SIHH 2017 formally starts, Audemars Piguet has unveiled both Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin and also the Royal Oak Chronograph together titanium and platinum iterations. Yeah, we are excited too.

Once the Royal Oak was initially travelling to 1972, it had been its steel construction and also the high amount of finishing around the steel situation and bracelet that actually distinguish it from exactly what had come before. Now, we have seen Royal Oaks in essentially every mixture of metals imaginable, however this here's something totally new and special. 

The primary cases and bracelet links of 

These two watches are titanium, using the bezels and also the smaller sized middle links from the bracelets made in highly polished platinum. Titanium makes lots of sense for that Royal Oak, whenever you consider it - in keeping with the non-rare metal origins from the watch, lightweight, and both fun and simple to put on.

This is actually the big boy. This is actually the 41mm Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin you know and love, however in brushed titanium using the polished platinum accents. Additionally, the primary gear train from the caliber 2924 movement continues to be colored gray, though we are yet to obtain an actual consider the movement itself.

This past year we've got this same reference in solid platinum

But there isn't any doubt that the full platinum Royal Oak is really a serious wrist-weight. It's difficult to something having a tourbillon visible around the dial a "sleeper watch," but this can be exactly that. From the distance, it might be challenging for anybody to understand precisely how awesome this factor is really.

Plus there is this exclusive edition. This watch is like the new Royal Oak Chronographs we said about earlier - using the bigger sub-registers, adjusted date window, and wider markers - however with this special titanium/platinum situation construction. The dial is really a wealthy gray with fast sub-registers, a well known color in conjunction with platinum watches. Getting the top bezel polished here really helps make the dial pop in comparison to the brushed finish usually put on the steel bezels.