it's always hard to top Blake's videos especially when he's just shown us the Bruno Mars limited
edition AP Royal Oak I might have a better one stick around I'm going to show it to you.
hi it's Meg from SwissWatchExpo I've got an amazing watch to show you this morning Blake
just showed you the AP Royal Oak Bruno Mars Tour limited edition piece I've got one to top
that I think for all of you watch aficionados of course we know the importance of AP in the Royal
Oak collection in 2022 they actually celebrated their 50th anniversary I have one of their novelty
pieces from the 50th AnniversarycCollection it's extraordinary I want to show it to you let me
give you a little bit of history though we've been talking about anniversaries it seems like 2022 was
anniversary year for a lot of watches but there's probably no more important or iconic timepiece
in the watch world perhaps certainly in the sports watches than the Royal Oak Audemars
Piguet commissioned Gerald Genta in 1970 to create a design for them that would be their first steel
sports model back at that time they didn't dabble in steel it was pedestrian and they really decided
that they wanted to do something that was kind of very controversial and got a lot of attention
Gerald Genta was already well known for his iconic designs and he's actually one who created
the design that's so today still established and recognizable as the Royal Oak and so in 1972 the
first steel Royal Oak was introduced in 2022 they celebrated their 50th anniversary of this iconic
timepiece with a very special collection they actually introduced several new pieces and well
I have one of them of course they did have the original design it hasn't changed very much at all
it's really still very iconic and recognizable I keep leaning over peeking at the box because this
one is so special I'm excited to show it to you so let's just start with that this is the 16204 the
16202 was the 2022 50th Anniversary one in steel this is in rose gold this one is unworn there's
so many fascinating things about this the closer you look at it the more drawn in you're going to
become the first thing that's it is the jumbo size that's recognizable this is an ultra thin
which is always fascinating to see but what makes this is the openwork on this you can see all the
way through the watch on the front when you first look at it of course you'll see the mainspring and
the balance wheel it's just fascinating it really helps me appreciate the talent and expertise of
our master watchmakers they dabble in this all day long and it's just phenomenal their talents
and their skills but this watch is of course unworn extraordinary to see just want to show
it to you for a minute it is running it's just you get lost in all of the mechanism and all the
specifics and and the beautiful movement that's in there I'm going to show you the back as well.
so what you'll see about this is that skeleton
work the openwork you can see all the way through it
and what I love on this is the rotor on this actually has a 50 on it to really
commemorate their 50th Anniversary you don't see their rotor design change very often but
this one clearly has that 50 on there it's just again from the back you can see the back of the
mainspring the balance will again the additional wheels the just it's extra it's beautiful I mean
the more you look at it it's such a special timepiece again one of their novelty items
for their 50th Anniversary it's phenomenal it's just such a special timepiece I don't
know that we'll ever see another one this one is available currently it's extraordinary we'd love
to show it to you any of our watch aficionados out there who really appreciate the skill and
the precision and the beauty of the timepieces this is the one for you because of this openwork
it's extraordinary just want you to see it want to share it with you of course we still have this
one and the Bruno Mars one for now so give us a call either one of them will be able to show you
we're so privileged here to have such extraordinary timepieces we appreciate the
ability to share these with you so give us a call it's Meg from SwissWatchExpo SwissWatchExpo.com