Beauty in The Beast

Audemars Piguet releases new men’s and women’s models to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Royal Oak Offshore

Thirty years on from the first ever Royal Oak Offshore timepiece, Audemars Piguet is celebrating its anniversary with the release of several new references, including a range of diamond- and gemstone-adorned women’s models, as well as four new black ceramic automatic chronographs. While the model is now generally recognised as a cult classic, it took the watchmaking fraternity a while to come to terms with the bold aesthetic of the Royal Oak Offshore. In fact, legendary watch designer and the father of the original Royal Oak Gérald Genta even famously dubbed it “a sea elephant” when the first model came out in 1993. Of course, after it became a hit with the younger generation of horologists, it was only a matter of time before the Offshore was given a more…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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