AUDEMARS PIGUET Royal Oak
How It Started
ntroduced in 1972, Audemars Piguet’s Royal blazed the trail as the world’s first bona fide luxury sports watch. The original model came in stainless steel and retailed at CHF3,600 – an astronomical amount for a steel watch then. Though the watch’s design, distinguished by its octagonal bezel and exposed screws, was roundly derided by critics at the time of
