AUDEMARS PIGUET Audemars Piguet recently launched a 41mm Royal Oak Selfwinding Chronograph (26240BC) on the official website. The watch is made of platinum and has a large purple “Grande Tapisserie” plaid dial, which is quite eye-catching. This watch is limited to 100 pieces. , the official website of the brand did not disclose the price but wrote: Price on Request, if you compare it with the rose gold model of the same series and the same movement, it means that this watch is at least NT$2 million, but it is definitely more difficult to get started.
Looking back on the past history of AP, they introduced the purple tone into the Royal Oak series for the first time in about 2018. At that time, it was the first to be applied to the Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin equipped with a 2924 hand-wound movement. Later, this color gradually spread to more Royal Oak series. The Oak series works include chronographs and automatic tourbillons, etc. In fact, the brand also launched the Royal Oak automatic chronograph with a purple dial in 2019. The watch is equipped with a 2385 automatic movement and a platinum case with frosted Gold process, while the small dial is silver-toned, forming a two-color effect with the purple Grande Tapisserie dial. That watch is limited to 200 pieces and has been discontinued. It just so happened that Audemars Piguet added 26240BC in 2023 to directly fill its vacancy.
AP Royal Oak Selfwinding Chronograph (26240BC) at a glance (click to enlarge) ▼▼▼
The movement of 26240BC has been replaced by the chronograph movement 4401, which is the main force of the current series. Therefore, the small dial pattern is also different from that of the old model equipped with the 2385 movement. It is a chronograph dial, a small second dial and a scoring dial. After four years of watch evolution, the design of the current dial has also been slightly adjusted. The checkered dial has the same purple color, and the scale of the small seconds dial adds 20, 40, 60 and other numbers to enhance the effect of reading time. As for the appearance of the watch, the biggest difference from the previous one is that the case and chain strap have abandoned the frost gold process. , Change back to the brushed treatment used in general RO watches.
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If you don’t follow brand trends often, you may miss this new purple-faced Royal Oak automatic chronograph, but celebrities abroad have already worn this watch first. It is none other than the superstar Lionel Messi who went to the mainland for a friendly match with the Argentine football national team earlier. When he arrived in the mainland a few days ago, he was directly hit by the media and was wearing this suspected 26240BC. Works, and Metz also specially changed the strap from the platinum chain strap to the rubber chain strap of the same color as the dial. The low-key but very powerful first exposure of this watch is unexpected.
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Metz is a well-known collector of high-end watches in football, but most of the watches he wore in the past were popular watches that we are familiar with. Good rival C Lang loves to collect rare, limited edition and even dreamy gems studded with diamonds. However, the purple-faced Royal Oak automatic chronograph worn by Max when he entered China this time is a bit of a win for him. In addition to being one of the first collectors to get the watch, he also changed the strap for the watch. And you can get the rare models limited to 100 pieces first, which can also highlight the deep relationship between Metz and the brand (after all, AP has helped Metz to produce joint watches in the past). The two parties are not just pure watch manufacturers and customers. It will not be surprising that Si can get the special model of AP first this time.
[Thisarticlewasawarded”world luxury“Authorized to reprint, original text: AP released the new Royal Oak watch in a low-key manner and Messi took the lead to show the king’s momentum]
2023-07-11 09:34:10
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