Royal Oak OffShore Grande Complication Pink Gold - Black Sapphire / Skeleton

In Context

At 44 mm it is a large watch — well above this catalogue’s 40 mm median, and enough to dominate a narrow wrist. At 15.4 mm it is a tall case, and it will catch on a cuff. The case back is open, so the movement is visible without taking the watch apart, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. Rated to 22 m, it is protected against rain and splashes and nothing beyond that.

The movement winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 45 hours of reserve carries it overnight, but not through a weekend in a drawer.

26583OR.SS.A002CA.01 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a skeleton dial with a sapphire case. It was a limited edition.

The 2885 is Audemars Piguet's grande complication. It puts a split-seconds chronograph, a minute repeater and a perpetual calendar with moon phase in one automatic movement. It powers 42 watches in this library. It is 31.6 mm across and 8.55 mm high, with 52 jewels and a beat of 19,800 vph for a 45-hour reserve, and it was for decades the movement Audemars Piguet built its most complicated watches on, in the Jules Audemars Grande Complication and the Royal Oak and Offshore Grande Complications. The glossary's definition of a [grand complication](/glossary/grand-complication) is met three times over: the [rattrapante](/glossary/rattrapante) chronograph, the repeater striking the hours, quarters and minutes on demand, and a [perpetual calendar](/glossary/perpetual-calendar) that needs no correction until 2100. In the library it powers 17 [Jules Audemars](/brands/audemars-piguet/jules-audemars) references, 16 [Royal Oak Offshores](/brands/audemars-piguet/royal-oak-offshore) and 9 [Royal Oaks](/brands/audemars-piguet/royal-oak), in 44 mm and 42 mm cases, mostly openworked. 12 are limited editions. The [2936](/calibers/audemars-piguet-ap-2936) and [2889](/calibers/audemars-piguet-ap-2889) are the maison's tourbillon chronographs, and the [5134](/calibers/audemars-piguet-ap-5134) its ultra-thin perpetual calendar alone.

41 other watches in the library run the Audemars Piguet AP 2885.

Audemars Piguet

Royal Oak OffShore 26571 Grande Complication White Gold

26571.BC.OO.A002CA.01 · 44 mm

Audemars Piguet

Royal Oak OffShore 26571 Grande Complication Pink Gold / Black

26571OR.OO.A002CA.01 · 44 mm

Audemars Piguet

Royal Oak Grande Complication White Gold / Blue

25865BC.OO.1105BC.01 · 44 mm

Audemars Piguet

Royal Oak 26551 Grande Complication Skeleton 40th Anniversary

26551PT.OO.1238PT.02 · 44 mm