Audemars PiguetRoyal Oak Offshore

The Royal Oak Offshore is the 1993 enlargement of the Royal Oak, 42 mm where the original was 39 mm. It added rubber-clad crown and pushers and a visible gasket between bezel and case. This library holds 370 references.

About the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore

Emmanuel Gueit designed it as a watch for a younger buyer, and the first reference, the 25721ST nicknamed "The Beast", was considered too big by almost everyone at Audemars Piguet at the time. It became the collection that carried the company through the 2000s. Chronographs built with Schumacher, Barrichello and the Terminator 3 film, the 48 mm Survivor and the 44 mm cases of 2010 all belong to it, along with the Diver introduced the same year and rated to 300 m.

The movements are chronograph modules for most of its history. The caliber 3126/3840 is the 3120 base with a Dubois Dépraz chronograph on top, and it sits in 123 of the 370 references here, the most of any. The earlier 2326/2840 and 2226/2840 modular chronographs account for 56 more, the 2385 for 41, and the time-only Diver runs the 3120 alone. From 2021 the integrated flyback 4401 replaced the modular movements in the 43 mm and 42 mm chronographs.

The 42 mm case is the most common at 184 references, then 44 mm at 74 and the 37 mm ladies' Offshore at 54. Materials are more varied than the Royal Oak's: steel leads at 90, but titanium with ceramic, white gold, ceramic with steel, pink gold and forged carbon each account for double figures. Water resistance is 100 m on 182 references, 300 m on the Divers. 174 of the 370 are limited editions, the highest count in this library.

The Royal Oak is the original it was scaled up from, and the Royal Oak Concept is the line that took the Offshore's experiments further.

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