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Introducing the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Laptimer Michael Schumacher (Specs & Price) - Monochrome-Watches
The Royal Oak Concept is a playfield for Audemars Piguet. The brand from Le Brassus uses this watch for their most complicated and most innovative movements. They recently introduced their own interpretation of what could be the best minute repeater;?Royal Oak Concept RD1 Acoustic Research Minute Repeater. Now it’s time to move to another complication, the chronograph – and the watch they now introduce could possibly be the ultimate racing chronograph. Here is the?Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Laptimer Michael Schumacher.Before we start to explain this watch, and in order to prevent any bad comments, we want to make clear that, even considering the actual condition of Michael Schumacher,?this watch had been developed together with him before?his accident and is now launched?with the agreement of the family. We’re not going to discuss about this here but we’ll only focus on this impressive piece of horology.In?2010, Audemars Piguet teamed up with F1 legend?Mi
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon 26730 Hands On
Half a century of life deserves a big celebration, and Audemars Piguet will be pulling out all the stops to fete its Royal Oak. Not only has it hit the 50-year milestone, but its popularity has reached unprecedented heights; just try getting your hands on one. Today, Audemars Piguet releases three new variations of its 41mm Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon with the brand’s latest-generation automatic movement and the legendary Gerald Genta architecture that launched a thousand ships (of copycats). Available in stainless steel, titanium and 18k pink gold, the new Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon models?reflect the subtle design evolutions developed for this jubilee year.The RO gets a Flying TourbillonGerald Genta’s landmark 1972 design for the Royal Oak is considered the precursor of the luxury sports watch category. Although there are countless contenders lurking in the background, no watch design can match the sticking power and success of the Royal Oak. When
Breaking Audemars Piguet Wins the Aiguille dOr at GPHG 2019
This is it, the 2019 edition of the GPHG, known as the Oscars of the watchmaking industry, has come to a close and the prize for the best watch of the year, also known as the?Aiguille d'Or, has been awarded. This year again, the Grand Prix aims at rewarding creativity, innovation and haute horlogerie – in short, the best the watchmaking industry can produce. So here’s the best watch of 2019, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin (based on the RD#2 concept), reviewed here, also known as the thinnest perpetual calendar watch ever – as well as all the other prize winners of the GPHG 2019.Quick takeAs often, the Grand Prix tends, in the normal categories, to award some impressively complicated (and expensive) watches. The GPHG 2019 doesn’t make an exception, with most of the winning watches being a demonstration of the best skills of the industry. While last year independent watchmakers were at centre stage, this year it appears tha
The E.C. Andersson North Sea II (Specs & Price)
Today, we are going hands-on with an interesting new watch from a brand we first wrote about in 2016. Back then, Swedish brand E.C. Andersson was running a Kickstarter campaign to fund its first model, the military/marine inspired North Sea. As you may recall, the campaign was ultimately successful, and the first collection sold out. Now, the team are back with their second collection, the North Sea II, which looks very similar to the first version but features a number of subtle, yet important, updates. Given the popularity of the original model, keeping the same aesthetic is definitely not a bad thing. Read on for our detailed review of this comfortable yet robust timekeeper, that's happily, still also very affordable.Scandinavian design is renowned for its focus on functional simplicity, without compromising on the details and North Sea II certainly lives up this reputation. The overall design has a certain rawness to it, giving the watch something of an industrial look and feel. It
News: TAG Heuer is back as Official Timekeeper for Formula 1 in 2025
In an unexpected move and with great noise, LVMH officialised a partnership that was rumoured to be closed for several weeks in October last year. Indeed, LVMH, the world's largest luxury conglomerate, officially signed on as a Global Partner of Formula 1 in a groundbreaking 10-year deal, with what was certainly one of the most important sports sponsorship deals ever. This was the big picture, as we knew the deal included brands like Vuitton and Mo?t Hennessy. Looking more closely, we knew already that the role of official timekeeper of F1, which?had been in the hands of since 2013, was about to stop,?too. And what we expected is now certain, as TAG Heuer has just announced its return as the Official Timekeeper for Formula 1 in 2025.?In our previous article covering the overall deal closed by LVMH, and even if there was no mention of this specific involvement in the group’s press release, we were practically sure that TAG Heuer would become once more the Official Timekeeper for
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