Audemars Piguet x Tamara Ralph Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon
What links the rapper Travis Scott with the jeweller Carolina Bucci, the Givenchy Creative Director Matthew Williams and Marvel Entertainment? All (and many, many more) have collaborated with Audemars Piguet on additions to the Royal Oak canon over the years.
While there have been some markedly outlandish (in a good way) interpretations of the Royal Oak since its unveiling just over half a century ago — the limited-edition PVD-coated Offshore T3 worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1999’s End of Days springs to mind — the pieces co-created with Tamara Ralph, the Australian designer and former creative director and co-founder of Ralph & Russo, are, for our money, the boldest interpretations of Gérald Genta’s magnum opus to date.
While the boundary between what would traditionally be deemed men’s and women’s watches might be fading (Chopard are no longer formerly assigning genders to many of their novelties), the first collaboration between
