AUDEMARS PIGUET

ROYAL OAK

If you’ve been in a cave for the past seven months you might not yet have heard that Gérald Genta’s transformative Royal Oak turned 50 this year. We’re assuming, though, that you weren’t and you have, in which case you’re probably well aware that Audemars Piguet has decided to celebrate the occasion by releasing a host of new versions of one of the world’s most famous and uniquely designed sports watches. Among them is a new Selfwinding 50th Anniversary collection in a male/female-friendly 37 mm case, in steel and/or precious metals, with or without gem-setting and with three models featuring openworked dials. Anchoring them all are the time-and-date versions in steel with Petite Tapissérie dials, such as this one in light blue. Beating within is the new 5900 automatic movement, whose rhodium-toned pink-gold oscillating weight, which is visible through the caseback, carries the motif “50 Years”.