SIHH 2013 Preview: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Grande Complication
This year, Audemars Piguet celebrated the 40th anniversary of the original Royal Oak. Next year marks two decades of the larger, sportier Royal Oak Offshore, and Audemars Piguet plans to commemorate the milestone with the release of the extremely limited Royal Oak Grande Complication. The watch makes its debut at the SIHH watch fair in January, but the company has offered a tantalizing glimpse of it now.Audemars Piguet launched the Royal Oak Offshore in 1993, but the family-owned watch company, based in Le Brassus, Switzerland, has a history of making grand complications that stretches back to 1882. That historic expertise is on prominent display in this timepiece, which includes three “classic complications:” a split-seconds chronograph, a minute repeater, and a perpetual calendar.The movement that unites all of these functions, along with the hours, minutes and small seconds, is Audemars Piguet’s self-winding Caliber 2885, which has an astonishing 648 parts, 52 jewe

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