For a watch as memorable as the Royal Oak, fifty years are a solemn date, although for the icon designed in 1972 by Gérald Genta for Audemars Piguet, it comes naturally to think more about eternity.
Fifty years ago the Royal Oak took its first steps walking on eggs: at the time both its never-seen-before square lines and the fact that it was made of steel were a revolution in the luxury segment at the time led by the usual classic round-shaped watches. and gold. In a period also made difficult by the conscious crisis triggered by quartz, success seemed very uncertain at first.
Today it is the luxury sports watch par excellence that has created the most desired genre of all.
When an important anniversary such as fifty years arrives for a fake watches, you can’t hide behind a new dial but you have to bring something new and somehow fix that moment, but how? The risk that you run every time you touch an icon is enormous.
So how did it go? The new replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 2022 obviously have kept intact the lines drawn by Genta but bring a set of small changes and important mechanical updates which, ensuring the success of the 50-year operation, show a considerable intellectual effort by the Maison.
Let’s go now to discover together how the Royal Oak 2022 are made.
New Design
The Royal Oak collection receives new 37mm and 38mm references animated by automatic calibers such as new chronographs and highly complicated 41mm models.
While keeping unchanged all the codes that contributed to making him a star, the 2022 jubilee models show a more slender profile, with slight changes in the design of the case, bracelet and dials. At Le Brassus the watchword must have been to lighten (secretly) but at the same time to obtain greater wearability on a timepiece already known for its comfort.
New movements are planned, one of which, the automatic caliber 7121, which also equips the new Jumbo which I mentioned a few days ago in the article about new 2022 watches.
In addition to this, most of the new 2022 models are also equipped with the skeletonized oscillating weight dedicated to the 50-year-old Royal Oak. By the way, the case back has also been redesigned as well as the integrated bracelet which is now thinner and more ergonomic.