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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore still matters

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore still matters

Published by Sam Flores

While the colourways lend the watches a more playful edge, all three are serious diving instruments. Rated to 300m of water resistance, they are built for real underwater use as much as resort wear. Build quality is robust, thanks to the stainless-steel cases and black ceramic crowns, while luminescent hands and markers ensure legibility. The watches are powered by the automatic Calibre 4308, another workhorse movement that combines reliability with everyday practicality. CORNERSTONES OF CONTINUITY Taken as a whole, the 2026 lineup of Royal Oak Offshore watches offers a clear indication of why the line remains such a key pillar of Audemars Piguet. They may play with colours, textures and materials, but they do so without straying from the core identity and recognisable design framework that define the collection – and that collectors immediately recognise. In that sense, they continue to evolve while staying true to the spirit of the Offshore from the start. While prototype models and high-complication watches tend to hog the headlines – much as runway fashion pieces attract attention from the …

Here’s All 21 of Audemars Piguet’s Wild New Watches

Here’s All 21 of Audemars Piguet’s Wild New Watches

Published by Jenni Sidey

For those who eagerly await each year’s fresh crop of goodies from Audemars Piguet, last year’s news was particularly exciting: Just in time for the brand’s 150th anniversary, it released a new perpetual calendar movement adjustable completely via the crown. (This is a big deal because—as anyone who owns a perpetual calendar will surely tell you—the complexity of these watches makes them difficult to set.) Powering fresh references in both the iconic Royal Oak as well as the newer Code 11.59 collections, it set the tone for an ambitious release calendar that also saw the brand drop its high-tech RD#5—a watch whose pusher action was more akin to that of a cell phone than a traditional chronograph. Still, it would seem that the La Brassus-based maison is ever ready to push the horological envelope. This week, AP is debuting no fewer than 21 distinct references—and we’re only a month into 2026. Most exciting is the new Neo Frame Jumping Hour, a modern reimagining of 1920s jump hour designs that are in the midst of a …

Audemars Piguet Just Unveiled a Daring New Watch

Audemars Piguet Just Unveiled a Daring New Watch

Published by Jenni Sidey

Can a watch be too iconic? Believe it or not, it’s a question more than one Swiss luxury house has had to ask itself over the past decade. Patek Philippe discontinued a version of its sporty Nautilus, a steel blue-dial watch with a legendarily long wait list, out of fear the watch was becoming bigger than the brand. Audemars Piguet has long sought out a worthy successor to its A-plus-list watch, the Royal Oak, through the introduction of the classic round-shaped Code 11:59 or its [Re]Master program that revives old designs from the 151-year-old brand’s archives. Audemars Piguet was “not born in 1972,” says Sebastian Vivas, the venerable watchmaker’s heritage and museum director, referencing the year the Royal Oak debuted. “The Royal Oak is an absolute icon that we love and will continue to enrich and nurture, but AP is not only the Royal Oak—it’s much more than that.” Launching watches like the new Neo Frame Jumping Hour is meant to “develop the identity and enlarge the perception” of the brand as a whole. The …