Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore 26400RO on sales

APROOS REF26400RO
2013 HK official Watch.

This is the original 6 gram heavier version, Discontinued
It was carrying a price tag of HKD$368,000.

It is in Excellent Plus condition, Full Set asking ONLY HKD$275,000

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HK Watch Fever

Audemars Piguet Pink gold 38mm Automatic watch on sale

AP 38mm Pink Gold Automatic watch , bought a few months ago in Sincere Watch, Malaysia.

Full Set asking HKD$128,000


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One moment of creation, forever it lasts, Audemars Piguet ref 5402 Fantasy

AP RO Ref 5402 1972 Jumbo, AP Warranty Booklet, Leather Wallet and a 1976 Tiffany 14KT gold "Bamboo"

I don't like know how much I love this watch.

Jumbo 39 mm, merely 7 mm total thickness, nothing more, nothing less.

All time favourite watch of HK Snob.

The Iconic watch that saved me Audemars Piguet from Bankruptcy in 1972.

Super accurate that makes most of the current watches lose face.

Super comfortable to wear.

I take it out tonight put it near my pillow that I can listen to the light yet taut crystal clear "Tick" and perhaps I could feel the heart beat of Gerald Genta.

Thank You for your Great creation, the First Royal Oak!

HK Snob

Audemars Piguet is the Star Today

This is the newspaper I got from the Hotel, it says,

"The Audemars Piguet, STAR"

"Value Shall Prevail", I say.

Manila Snob

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 42 mm Chrono 26067OR.Z.Z.D002CR.02 on sale

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore

Ref  26067OR.Z.Z.D002CR.02

42mm Pink Gold Chronograph.

Automatic in house movement.

Diamond, dial, bezel and body.

Sapphire crystal Crocodile strap.

Brand new in box parallel import

MSRP RMB$1,286,000 (HKD$1,607,500 estimated)

Now less 19% off.

HK Snob

AP Royal Oak Jumbo Auto steel watch with Blue dial

There is one Audemars Piguet Ref 15202ST00 1240ST.01 Stainless steel watch available
at one dealer for you.

The watch is BNIB full Set, with RP HKD$178,000
now we offer less 20% in cash.

HK snob

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, Offshore Reference26401RO.OO.A002CA.01

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, Offshore

Reference26401RO.OO.A002CA.01

If you are asked what are the most sought after brand of watch nowadays in HK and China: the Answer would likely be Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, Piaget, Rolex, Roger Dubuis and Patek Philippe.

Amongts Those, this APRO Ooffshore Chronograph is somewhat like DeepSea D- blue or Submariner Hulk of Rolex, very hot, very hard to find, and really NOT-Cheap!

These are the basic Element for Today’s Chinese looking at Watches to buy:

Got to be Iconic Design,

Brand Value,

hard to find and most of all

has to be Expensive!

Ref 26401OR is having a price tag of HKD$360,000, a Price for an Entry Level BMW or Lexus.

Why?

As it is black watch on Black Silicon Strap, added a Pink gold touch up changes the whole watch into  new look of CLASS.  It could not be mistaken not an AP!

It is Large of 44mm, and it takes 365 parts to construct this Watch.

18-carat pink gold case,

glareproofed sapphire crystal and caseback, black ceramic bezel,

screw-locked crown and pushpieces, pink gold pushpiece guards

DialBlack dial with “Méga Tapisserie” pattern,

silver-toned counters, gold applied hour-markers and gold Royal Oak hands with luminescent coating, black inner bezel ring

Bracelet Black rubber strap with 18-carat pink gold pin buckle

What if you are offered a price of a Toyota Camry for this Watch!? Will you be drooling?

HK Snob

Watch Fever

Makati Gathering with Philippine Watch and wine Connoisseur!

Makati gathering

I had a time to gather with this gentleman who has been knowing good watch could be one of the investment items like what he has for other investment:  Restaurant, Trading company, other

He loves good watches and exotic wines...In fact he buys wine in cases direct from Chateau.

He doesn't  drink alone and I was invited to go to meet him at this Shopping mall at his restaurant.

He like AP as much as Patek, well, this gentleman bought his AP in Taiwan with less 20% discount, he said he should know me earlier knowing that I get less 28% which could be more cheaper in HK, but I said that 8 % really matters much for a man like him.

We had a bottle of Angelus 1989 then a Bottle of Latour 1988

The Angelus 1989 is known for his strong and powerful tenin and yet giving you a secent of flowers that was the same bottle it showed up on the train appeared in the James Bond movie Royale Casino with by Daniel Craig as James Bond.

More interesting is he likes the AP because of his dual time, but I doubt as the second time zone dial is so small how could he sees the time correctly, he is older than I at least 5 years I believe.

He loves my Diver watch and ask why I like it, I said as I used to go gold watch, it may be fun to try out some expensive watch with cheap low tech material with hi tech to make : Carbon composite.

After I using a few days, I feel I like it as it is big in size, clear to read, and light to wear, and most of the cases I will not be recognized as an Expensive watch, you can travel to Malate to those night club, KTV, local restaurants and bars and no one seems to care what is on your hand.

Note that this man used to put 5 minutes fatser on his watch, he told me this 5 minutes makes him always ahead in schedule!

Makati Snob

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Carbon Diver Ref 15706AU



AP Royal Oak Offshore Carbon Diver Ref. 15706AU

This is more than sporty watch that it consists of all the latest technology you want on a watch:

1000 feet diving range

Carbon composite watch base

Ceramic Bezel

Audemars Piguet Renowned Calibre 3120 Movement

An eye catching accents of yellow 15 minutes arc , yellow hour, minutes and a yellow dot on the second hand.

Glareproof sapphire crystal,

Black dial with the AP exclusive “Mega Taposserie” pattern.

I appreciate the design of the dial as there is no too many sub dials like Chronometers that makes the dial so packed and appeared to be “ SMALL”!

This watch looks bigger as it is on my wrist.

The knob for setting the time recorder is on the 10 O’clock position that makes this watch a bit more unique.

This is a watch you can wear everyday, similar to the Rolex Submariner… but the band is silicon rubber.

So a Cabon+ Ceramic+silicone+ Calibre 3120 would be so easy to take you US$27,000 away!

HK SNOB

HK Watch Fever

Que Galazo, What A Goal!

Que Galazo, “ What a goal!”

Galazo is a term used by Spanish saying : Soccer Expression referring to Awesome Amazing goal. This term is used by all Spanish speakers all over the World,

The First AP Royal Oak in Leather strap, the piece was designed in Collaboration with Jorg Hysek.

With an Unqiue Colour, design and Uniqueness to be a Real Audemars Piguet Royal Oak.

Ref 14800

Gender Male

Size 36mm

Case Metal Steel

Surface Finish Standard Classic

Caliber 2225

Movement Automatic

Year Introduced 1993

Year End 1998

If you have a passion on Soccer, this will be an un-resistible watch for you to go to wear and witness the next Soccer match in Madrid. Or this is a watch that you tell the world you are not just a Fan of AP Royal Oak, but also a supporter of the Royal Madrid team.

And Likely you are some of the few collectors of this pure Royal Oak blood In the entire history of AP Watch Manufacturing.

Owner is eager to let pass this to you at cost HKD$42,000.

HK Watch Fever

As Chinese Says, "Gold is always Gold, it has to be “Gold” to be Gold!", A recent AP RO court case!

 Swiss Legend Trimix Diver Chrono Black watch

Audemars Piguet Awarded $9.8 Million in Damages by New York Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Audemars Piguet has valid trademark rights in its Royal Oak watch design, that such rights were infringed by the sale of Swiss Watch International’s Swiss Legend Trimix Diver watches. The Court also determined that Swiss Watch International engaged in an act of unfair competition.

The Court awarded the full amount of Swiss Watch International’s profits and trebled them for bad-faith conduct, meaning Audemars Piguet will receive $9.8 million in damages. Audemars Piguet will also be allowed to apply for an award of its attorney’s fees and costs of the suit. Finally, the Court entered an injunction forbidding Swiss Watch International from further sale of the infringing watch products.

François-Henry Bennahmias, CEO of Audemars Piguet, commented, “The Royal Oak was the first of its kind. 42 years later, it remains unmatched amongst prestige sport watches. This is only the beginning of an authentic icon that is making an indelible imprint on the history of modern watchmaking. Thus, we are fully committed to enforcing our rights in the Royal Oak design and insist our trademarks be fully respected. We owe it to Audemars Piguet, and the founders’ families.”

Original article was written on JANUARY 13, 2014  |  BY VALERIE JACK.

The moral of this article is:-

Don’t ignore the Big Four: PP AP VC and Rolex, they could sue you to hell if you copy their design and make a sale.

This is a case of Trade mark right infringement, not copying the watch at all, so there have been a long way in court.

I believe the Swiss Watch International’s Swiss Legend Trimix Diver watches was not in purpose to copy the design, may be just borrowing some of the idea only.

As I see there is a lot of un-similarity in the design. But the richer always have a better position in Court to win!

AP senior official should make a visit to ShenZehn Lo Wo Commercial centre, they will be surprise how exactly their replica was being made by COPYING.

We should not encourage to buy, wear the copy watches, as US and Swiss may not allow you to enter their country if they find you carry fake watch.

Another big reason for me to go for Gold Watch is it is having much higher cost to make Copies…. You can see 99% of copy-watch are stainless steel one… as Chinese Says, "Gold is always Gold, it has to be “Gold” to be Gold!"

HK Watch Fever

HK Snob

Start to Search for the first 100 Pieces of Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 39mm Jumbo.

An interesting article about more first AP RO Jumbo

http://revo-online.com/in-pursuit-of-the-holy-grail-watch-audemars-piguets-royal-oak-5402-a-series-yellow-gold/

Love to see this DAP 1977 AP RO

A 1970s Royal Oak Owned By Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez AND Signed By Bulgari: This Is A Special One

This is No. 68, a WF Friend sent his watch picture to me

No. 64

This is No. 64, I picked up at Ebay , watch sold but no price was mentioned

Can We find out the location of all the first 100 Pieces of Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 18KT solid Gold 39mm Jumbo!?

This is an AP RO 1972 with S/N. 68, Mine is S/N. 7X.

Well they can be said built under the same batch of ten!

Amazingly this watch owner is also a AP RO Fan like I, when he comes HK, we shall meet and take pictures with two watches placed together side by side and show you.

This watch has been cleaned believed as the 8 screws on bezel has been randomly positioned. But this is just very small issues to the Audemars Piguet Watchsmith!

This watch owner bought it with USD$20,000!

I am waiting the chance to meet this watch Owner!! 

Could I start a facebook to search the rest 98 pieces?

Good idea? If you have this watch please try to send me picture and make a collection of this!

Or to establish a First 100 Pices APRO FAN CLUB.

I speculate that by time 2022, this watch will have its 50th anniversay, where we could get a high auction price of USD$80,000 for a excellent condition APRO 39mm Jumbo.

it is time to buy when you have spotted a good one in the market, help to send me pictures of yours if you have One...

Another lousy part of it, my "wife" had hijacked mine and keep it in her safe deposit box!  As sooner she read my blog, sooner she know the price...!  : (

please see that the Serial number is 151 with 1977, this watch was opened to market in 1972, I believe that they are really made in very smaller number, Might be just 30 Pieces a year, so these are the asisgned Serial Number, well, may be when the popularity was becoming higher, the number of unit will be more...

So I think that the number of Stainless steel is more than the number of Gold as the intention of creating this watch is to going into an image of SPORT. And I have seen three stainless steel verison in the pre-owned market for the past 6 years in HK but just one in 18KT gold.


1972 S/N 000-030
1973 S/N 031-060
1974 S/N 061-090
1975 S/N 091-120
1976 S/N 121-150
1977 S/N 151-180
1978 S/N ??

This is purely my guess and if you have a better information, pls share with me


Hk Watch fever
HK Snob

The Most Iconic Watch in The Watch Making Industry

Released in 2012, Retro APRO 39mm Jumbo in Pink Gold using 2121 Mocement HKD$471,000

Released in 2012 APRO Jumbo Stainless Steel HKD$132,000

AP Movement CaL. 2121 NEW 2012 version

  1972 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 39 mm Jumbo yellow gold with 2121 Movement with serial No.  2x.

The Most iconic Watch in the History

Audemars Piguet has maintained its standing at the forefront of the Watch World in 1980 was simply because of the launch of the Royal Oak in 1972.

Audemars Piguet was nominated as the Top 1 of the Big Four Watches in 1980, followed by Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and Jaeger LeCoulte. Actually Royal Oak Saved the company going bankruptcy if not for the beautiful and Timeless Design of Royal Oak created by Gerald Genta.

The brand has created the “Concept” watches, with the Royal Oak Concept leading the way from 2002 to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the Royal Oak, and the Royal Oak Carbon Concept unveiled in 2011.

These massive Complicated masterpieces will be forever remembered in watchmarkng industry, but definitely not the common item that common person like I can even think of owning For the rest of us, a SIMPLE Royal Oak will do, and if you ask me, even a Chronograph is not necessary – whereas a Simple movement of 2121 (1972) or 3120 (current) Automatic watch is more than enough to generate a hefty dose of Watch Envy from your friends or the one next to you!!!

Movement Ca. 2121 was actually developed by JLC’s  Cal.920 in 167, Same movement was being used on Patek Philippe Nautilus Cal. 28-255C and Vacheron Constantin Overseas Cal. 1120.

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo 39mm

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex…

It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

                                                                                              - Albert Einstein

Want a watch that's not chunky and trendy—but not so precious that you can't wear it to the bar? Wrap your wrist with the kind of simple elegance you can sport every day, everywhere, and most of the time!

Audemars Piguet Extra-Thin Royal Oak 39 mm

The new version of the Royal Oak ref. 15202 with the petite tapisserie dial that makes me crave for it very much. It is one of my favourite Watch Design.

AP also released a larger version of the Royal Oak, measuring 41 mm in diameter, however the new version of the so-called Jumbo is by far my favorite and also the new version of what Gerald Genta designed in 1972.  The ultimate luxury SIMPLE sports watch in stainless steel. A good choice for any occasion, dress or casual, work and a pleasure to wear because of its sleek design and perfectly dependable!

This Jumbo 39mm AP Royal Oak was nominated one of the top-ten best Watch of the year 2012!

Ref 150202ST.00.1240ST.01 Stainless steel 39mm HKD$138,000.  estimated subjected to discount

Ref 15202OR.00.1240OR.01 Pink Gold 39mm HKD$475,000 list price, subject to discount.

HK Snob

To break the rules, you must first master them

These are some of the most beautiful Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watches, the simplier the design with two hands would be the one most expensive because that is the legendary Gerald Genta design 1972.  
Picture taken by Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE Handphone in HKIA in 1 March 2013.
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AP Royal Oak 18K Solid Gold Jumbo1972 on Sale

This is an AP Royal Oak, one of my AP Royal Oak, This Yellow Gold watch is rare and not so many people got a chance to see it unless in AP Exhibition and or some other Auctions. It was the creation of gerald Genta who designed watch to change the fate of the whole AP company for profit.
This watch has never veen polished at AP, it has been worn for a while. It is very accuracte which is important to tell the movement is Good, I have been trying to wear it for two weeks, I could see that it gained half a minute or less, so everyday it gains about 2-3 seconds. That is the accuracy of a Chronometer.

Attached the Waranty booklet of the watch. This watch was engraved with Serial number of two digits! I believe the first launch of this 1972 Gold verison is less than 200 pcs.

Beginning of the year, an Auction of the same 1972 watch in Stainless less had a hammer price of HKD$311,250.

The new 2012 release AP Royal Oak Retro Rose Gold 39 mm is selling at HKD$471,000.00

HK Snob

The Super Early Royal Oak

The Very First Royal Oak now assigned as Reference 15400 41mm, Ever.
That is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Royal Oak firstly introduced in 1972.
They have a ton of interesting RO's to choose from, including several LE's.  But, the two Royal Oak's from the collection that we're most excited about are relatively simple watches.  The first, as seen above, is actually the very first 41mm Royal Oak. The reference 15400 that was introduced in SIHH this year. is now ready for you to order Price HKD$132,000.
There are only limited shipment to HK, Dial colour Grey, white and Blue. Remember earlier the Auction for the original 1972 39MM Junbo watch was HKD$225,000.00!
Now you can get a new one at a fraction of the aution price!
HK Snob

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo 1972

The Pictures are taken today by HTC One

I still recall that PP AP, VC and Piaget had been named as The Big Four from Switzerland in all ads and watch magazine in the newspaper Ad of 80's in Hong Kong… and they ranked AP the top of the Four. (Correct me if I am wrong.)

In the 70’s Some of the best movement that collection won't miss: IWC 85 series, Vacheron Constantin 920 (Audemars Piguet 2120, Vacheron Constantin 1120, Patek Philippe PP28-255*) Patek Philippe 460, Omega series 5, and the most adorable Rolex 1570.

Especially Rolex is the most cost effect amongst al these top brands.

This is the first Jumbo AP Royal Oak equipment with this 2120 Movement with 39mm in size

The Total Thickness of the whole watch is merely 7mm. It is very thin, and the watch is extremely accurate, meaning that you can not notice any minor change at all on the minute hand after I have timed it for one month.
This is one of my favourite items from Audemars Piguet, big, thin, Simple, stylist, solid Gold, Vintage, memorabilia, beautiul, rare and not too expensive!

Once, some people asked me if this is quartz movement!

HK Snob