When Audemars Piguet continues to be producing leading-tier wrist watches given that 1875, it was really a model produced by Gerald Genta and released in 1972 that took over as the company’s leading watch. That watch was the Royal Oak. The model also established a whole new genre-the luxury sports watch, though not only did the Royal Oak become AP’s bread and butter. Despite the fact that Audemars Piguet has created countless versions of your Royal Oak throughout the last five generations, the less complicated time/day automatic types are the most common. Today we take a look at two different many years in the Royal Oak Intelligent, the Royal Oak 15300 vs 15400, to see the direction they evaluate.
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15300
Audemars Piguet released the Royal Oak 15300 series in 2005. In order to renew, the characters that could come after AP guide amounts, like ref. 15300ST, indicate the type of metallic applied to the watch situation.
BA – Discolored Precious metal
BC – White-colored Rare metal
Saint – Metallic
OR – Rose Golden
PT – Platinum
TI – Titanium
The ref. 15300 sporting activities a 39mm case and is also, needless to say, topped with the Noble Oak’s trademark eight-sided bezel with all the subjected screws.
Be aware the big AP company logo at 12 o’clock around the RO 15300ST call
Inside the 9.4mm thick scenario is definitely the in-residence Audemars Piguet Grade 3120 intelligent movements, which in fact had made its debut in 2003 inside the Jules Audemars collection. Caliber 3120 is well known in AP’s historical past as it wasdeveloped and conceived, and built completely in-property rather than employing Jaeger-LeCoultre base moves as a starting place. Functioning at 26,000 beats an hour, Cal. 3120 powers theminute and hour, and mere seconds hands, a time window, and supplies the watch with 60 hours of power hold.
A pair of Royal Oak 15300OR watches on leather bracelets
The RO ref. 15300 watches are decorated using the well known hobnail-patterned AP “tapisserie” dials, available in white colored, black colored, or light blue. A specific characteristic from the 15300 may be the position of a big AP company logo that can serve as the 12 o’clock marker.
Audemars Piguet made the Royal Oak 15300 right up until 2012, obtainable in possibly stainless-steel or 18k rose precious metal and equipped with metallic incorporated charms or leather bands. There seemed to be additionally a limited edition bit by two-strengthen steel and increased rare metal.
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15400
Audemars Piguet introduced the Royal Oak 15400 sequence in 2012 to change the ref. 15300 generation. The 15400 incorporates a larger circumstance size at 41mm together with a a bit thicker account at 9.8mm. It’s well worth noting that AP also launched the 37mm ref. 15450 that identical season for anyone searching for a smaller model of your Royal Oak.
18k rose rare metal Royal Oak 15400OR
Besides the greater situation dimensions, Audemars Piguet also tweaked the tapisserie dial slightly. The Royal Oak 15400 contains a double hash symbol at 12 o’clock by using a smaller sized AP logo beneath it. Fans of antique AP watches will immediately recognize that those double indexes through the unique 1972 Royal Oak dial.
What’s a lot more, the time windows at 3 o’clock were required to transfer a little for the center (as a result of larger circumstance nevertheless the identical activity) which is now along with a modest list. Within the situation is the same trustworthy Caliber 3120, which may be seen via the sapphire crystal caseback.