For this video, we're gonna discuss three reasons why AP is a better watch than Rolex.
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My name's Eric Rivera and everybody knows how much I love and celebrate the brand Audemars
Piguet, but for this specific video, I even wore one of my personal Rolex Daytonas, because
I wanted to make sure that my opinions weren't that biased or you know, that obvious.
Don't get me wrong guys, I love Rolex.
You cannot go wrong with it, but I wanna go over the reasons why AP is the next level
beyond Rolex.
Number 1, AP is part of the big three in the watchmaking world, which consists of Audemars
Piguet, Vacheron and Patek.
So clearly it's the next level, but it's not just the obvious statement that makes the
next level.
They just have a whole another take on watchmaking than Rolex.
Rolex is more of an industrial, every-day, forward-thinking type of timepiece.
There's no doubt that a Rolex would outlast an AP as far as durability, but in timeless
design it could kind of be a little bit more of a toss up.
AP just has its own different look and more things that Rolex doesn't offer.
Starting with something perhaps like complications.
You can't just get complications or even really anything that complicated at all from Rolex.
Rolex boasts their most complicated watch right now is the Sky-Dweller.
I mean, guys it's not really that complicated, you know?
It just kind of has a date wheel, second time zone and a month calendar.
Big deal.
AP just has so much of another level when it comes to haute horology or grand complications
to really show off what they're doing.
It's just another in the brand.
It kind of goes from regular luxury, which we'd say would be a Rolex.
It goes to the next level of ultra luxury.
Guys, you know I love AP, one of my favorite models is the 41 millimeter rose gold with
the black dial.
Can't go wrong with that.
I'm more of a chrono fan over the self winding, both of them are great.
But I tend to always swing the bat more towards AP within that battle.
Number 2, the brand AP just resembles more artistic expression.
For me it's just a whole another level in design and quality.
Again, not saying that they're in any way that Rolex is more inferior, in no way, shape
or form like I mentioned earlier.
But it's just a little bit more avant garde.
Just a whole another level in fashion and the way that it looks.
There's no denying that AP designs are simply just a lot cooler looking in my opinion, you
know?
They're just way more, way more forward thinking.
I've always felt it's more like an exotic sports car on your wrist, the way it looks
with all the sharp lines and the combinations of high polished and satins and stuff like
that, that really just are a bit more expressive than a Rolex.
You hear it all the time, people say, “Well, you know it's a Rolex.
Everybody has it.
Who doesn't have one?”
You see them all the time or people express things about Rolex, like saying, “You know,
they're just too plain and simple for me!”
That's where AP in my opinion just goes to another level.
Yes, they got a lot of other models that are not so popular and we're pretty much gonna
go ahead and say that the Royal Oak ones are more of the models that we're talking about,
but for me it's just so much more futuristic, better looking, funner, and more of an artistic
expression in watchmaking, which is just something different, something more to talk about and
more of a conversation piece.
Number 3 is when you own an Audemars Piguet, you're just part of a more exclusive clientele.
Not just anybody buys an AP, very few buy an AP as their first watch and for whoever
has, I salute you cuz you definitely went straight to the AP gang.
When you have an AP, it's something that more of the regular people out there are not even
gonna notice what you're wearing and that to me is an advantage.
You see, this yellow gold Daytona, anybody would know what it is from a mile away.
I mean, anybody that doesn't know anything about watches will know, but you see when
you have an AP, you kind of will appeal more to the watch nerds, you know?
You kind of are a bit more into the crowd of people that know a lot more about watches
and are in the next level.
So as I also stated earlier, there's definitely more to talk about.
There's only so much you could talk about when you have a Batman Jubilee, get what I
mean?
So AP is the next level in my opinion and it will always be.
I mean, it doesn't mean that I don't like other brands like RM and Vacheron itself,
I love, and many other brands, but when it comes to that, I always say that the race
is closest between AP and Rolex.
So in conclusion, AP is the next level after Rolex and all those several people or they'll
say, “You know, I just don't like the way they look,” or they'll say, “I can't seem
to wrap my head around it,” or they'll also say, “I can't justify the prices.”
Those are key indications that it's the next level and that you almost have to be into
watches long enough to start really truly understanding and accepting all the beauty
that they have and offer.
This is Eric Rivera and thank you for watching.
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