Royal Oak: From Iconoclast to Icon retraces how the Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak created a stir upon its release in 1972, with its armor of hand-finished stainless-steel encasing the thinnest self-winding mechanical movement of its era and has shone around the world in the decades that have followed. For the first time, steel was ennobled to the same status as gold. Inspired by the profound cultural, artistic, and industrial changes of the 1960s and early 1970s, this forward-looking timepiece anticipated a more active yet casual lifestyle, while heralding the beginning of a new high-end watchmaking era combining sportiness and refinement.

PAGE COUNT
292 pages
NUMBER OF ILLUSTRATIONS
400
LANGUAGE
English
RELEASED ON
September 2022
DIMENSIONS
W 31 x L 38 x D 5 cm
COVER MATERIALS
Hardcover in luxury slipcase
ISBN
882664002305
WEIGHT
4.7 kg
AUTHOR
Text By Bill Prince