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The Royal Oak Offshore may not be on everybody’s wishlist this Christmas, but quite a few gentlemen would be okay with getting a first edition of “The Beast” to crown their collections. The hype might revolve around the Royal Oak designed by Gerald Genta in 1972, but the Offshore series is no less critical to luxury Audemars Piguet replica watches and its current success. The Offshore has a history and meaning; it is legendary and turns 30 next year. As our guest, we had to have it here in the Collector’s Corner.

Background – From RO to ROO

This year Audemars Piguet celebrates 50 years of the Royal Oak, which in 1972 was nothing short of an impressive innovation in design, and more. Some say the AAA UK fake watches, designed by Gérald Genta (whose epic portfolio of iconic designs was recently sold at auction and reminded us once again of the true scope of Genta’s talent and influence on the industry), saved Audemars Piguet from the fate of losing ground to the quartz blitzkrieg. The legend says Georges Golay, managing director of AP at that time, called already famous Gérald Genta just before the 1971 Basel Fair and urgently commissioned him to develop a design for an unprecedented steel Swiss replica watches that Italian dealers had requested. And Genta provided one, which they say did not take too long to produce. A year later, the Royal Oak was there to receive shocked reactions and little applause, but we all know the status it enjoys today.

However, the road to stardom was not always paved with rose petals. The Royal Oak Offshore was conceived in 1989 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Royal Oak – and to boost sales. The first luxury steel sports copy watches online was not doing great, with sales in steady decline, and just like Golay in 1971, in 1989, Stephen Urquhart, then AP’s Chairman, turned to a creative person for help. Emmanuel Gueit, a young designer about a year into the company, was asked to “create something young men would want to wear“. Gueit delved into the task, feeling no constraints, typical of youth, and coming from a watch designer’s family, no fear.

Emmanuel Gueit recalled in many interviews that the project was frequently put on hold because the company’s management had doubts about how appropriate it would be to release a watch made to Gueit’s design. It was too large, too heavy, and thus impossible to sell. And Gérald Genta disapproved of the Offshore concept – he hated it and expressed it publicly. All these doubts delayed the launch of the new Offshore collection, planned for 1992, for a year. In 1993, the 1:1 top replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Ref. 25721ST.OO.1000ST.01 watches premiered. Stephen Urquhart suggested its name to connect with the world of powerboat racing and exclusive yachts. Urquhart also nicknamed the Offshore “The Beast” for its massive case, a perfect alias.

The ROO 25721ST – The Basics

The inaugural Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore of 1993, a blown-up version of an elegant Royal Oak destined for the adventurous crowd, had a steel 42mm diameter case with a 15mm thickness and blue Therban (rubber) chronograph pushers and crown. As an anniversary model for the RO, the cheap fake watches had an octagonal bezel lined with a rubber gasket, eight signature hexagonal screws, a blue petite tapisserie dial and an integrated bracelet. There was a tachymeter scale on the dial’s outer flange, and the chronograph counters were positioned in a 12-6-9 layout, with a date window at 3 o’clock.

The first trial series – China replica watches numbered D23744 to D23843 – had no mention of the new Offshore name on the screw-down caseback; only “Royal Oak” was engraved, so these first 100 “unmarked” pieces produced are a rarity. Other essential details help identify the Offshore as an original from 1993, but we will get to that later. The movement, 2126/2840, is based on a JLC calibre 888 equipped with a Dubois-Depraz module and protected from magnetic fields by an iron cage. To get to the calibre, you had to remove the caseback and then the cover for the protective casing, held in place by the four tiny screws. The Offshore was a well-conceived and well-developed watch, much more than the result of a superficial design.

Apart from the missing “Offshore” on the caseback, the first 100 “Beasts” had a bracelet with a special clasp with a double-folding blade-like construction. This also applied to the following 400 best quality super clone watches produced,  but if you want the coveted one from D23744 to D23843, this attribute is of paramount importance. The removable links on the early series of the 25721ST are secured by screws, two screws on each side of the links.

Suppose you are lucky enough to get your hands on an early original Royal Oak Offshore. In that case, you are bound to notice that the blue dial has lost its pretty colour and is beginning to show some brown from the brass plate where unstable paint, typical for the RO and ROO up to 1999, is losing its colour – bringing a tropical effect. There is no need to be disappointed; it is additional proof that you are dealing with the correct specimen.

Speaking of colour, the rubber-clad pushers and the crown are also supposed to be dark blue. We are told that the material Therban, an elastomer with extreme resistance to heat, was often replaced with lower-performing black rubber when AP didn’t service the perfect replica watches, so this is another detail to look out for. Another fundamental detail is the box in which the watches were sold – octagonal green with blue colour-matching accents and a round window on top to show “The Beast” inside.

The Offshore in 1993, just like the Royal Oak twenty years earlier, did not succeed immediately, initially proving sceptics right and Stephen Urquhart, a supporter of the project, wrong. The Italians immediately warmed to the best fake watches, and it became popular with the young and affluent crowd. Things really started to change when the legendary Italian alpine skier, Alberto Tomba, started wearing the Offshore as an ambassador. Sales picked up, and there was nothing to stop the Royal Oak Offshore from conquering the world now, and it did. Multiple versions of “The Beast” would be produced, including limited editions, and celebrities would help the Offshore reach its cult status.

What to expect from the market

It might be the result of investment-driven interest, or perhaps the collectors’ community grows exponentially, but in 2018, the top replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Ref. 25721ST.OO.1000ST.01 watches was vindicated. Described as “an early and extremely rare stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with date and tachymeter scale, belonging to Emmanuel Gueit and accompanied by original sketches,” the reference was sold at an auction for CHF 102,500. Prices for “The Beasts” out there, especially the D-series, began to climb a few years earlier, with only very few original pieces under Ref. 25721ST.OO.1000ST.01 currently on offer. Finding an original early model will be challenging and require a serious 5-digit budget.

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore challenged expectations and was an invitation to experiment with new materials and forms. Like the Royal Oak, the Offshore helped define Audemars Piguet as a brand. Not a mechanical wonder at all; the Offshore is another kind of animal. As such, it is classic luxury sports fake watches wholesale that was the first of its kind, with an enormous appeal and significance not only for the AP. The early reference 25721ST had a limited run, with less than 3,000 pieces released. To add one to your collection would be a quest and a reward, so keep looking.

Otherwise, there are two more modern options, the 2018 re-edition reference 26237ST for the 25th anniversary of the model, replica watches shop site almost identical visually yet powered by an in-house base movement (calibre 3120) with a Dubois-Depraz module, or the currently available reference 26238ST, again very close in terms of design and finishing, this time with an in-house integrated movement (calibre 4404). Still, none of them can compete with the youngtimer appeal of the original 1993 Beast…

UK High Quality Fake Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Extra-Thin RD#3 Watches In 37MM

What We Know

Recently announced as part of Audemars Piguet’s ongoing celebration of the Royal Oak’s 50th birthday, this is the new best UK replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Extra-Thin RD#3 watches and it has a very purple dial. While this is far from the brand’s first time fitting a Royal Oak with a purple dial, the dial isn’t the only change to the RD#3 platform.

Just as Mark teased in his introduction for the 39mm blue dial 26670 back in April, the new 26660ST wraps that metallic purple dial in a 37mm steel case. Maintaining the same 8.1mm thickness of the 39mm RD#3, the new 37mm AAA fake watches is also water resistant to 50 meters and has a steel bracelet with the usual AP folding clasp.

The movement, too, is the same found in this year’s earlier release, perfect Audemars Piguet replica watches‘ ridiculously-thin (just 3.4mm) automatic caliber 2968, which ticks at 3 Hz and offers a 50-hour power reserve with which you can watch the lovely titanium flying tourbillon, set flush at six on the dial.

Audemars Piguet calls the dial color “plum” and the 26660 uses a petite tapisserie pattern with white gold luminous markers and hands. The Swiss movements copy watches is finished with a display caseback that offers a view of the 50th Anniversary rotor design. Audemars Piguet has a retail price of $165,400 for the new RD#3 and though it is not a limited edition, production is most certainly limited and few will be made.

What We Think

To AP aficionados and speculators alike, the RD series (which stands for Research and Development) represent the cream of the crop when it comes to Audemars Piguet’s work with the Royal Oak. Offering an RD#3 in 37mm is a huge vote of confidence from AP in a sizing of the Royal Oak replica watches for sale that has come to be something of a sweet spot, alongside the proportions of the Jumbo.  

While I may forever be in love with the look and high-level execution of the RD#2 of 2018, a platinum 41mm Perpetual Calendar with a crisply modern dial design and a case that was just (checks notes … ) 6.3mm thick, the RD#3 does feel more like a core Royal Oak, no? Maybe it’s that it started with the Jumbo silhouette, or maybe it’s that both the 26670 and 26660 are made of steel, but both feel like 1:1 top super clone Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watches that have existed for some time, despite being special creations.

While I don’t think I’d go as far as to call a brightly purple-dialed and tourbillon-equipped Royal Oak subtle, within the world of the luxury Audemars Piguet Royal Oak replica watches, the RD#3s manage to blend in nicely with a bit of added “if you know, you know” appeal. For the few collectors who will actually be able to buy this very rare version of an already very hard-to-buy watch, the big stick of the RD#3 must offer some appeal. If you want a deeper look at what makes the RD#3 so special, don’t skip this story.

As an extension of the RD#3, this new variant is more than just a new dial color. With a smaller case – and the plum coloring – the RD#3 26660 has a distinct appeal that complements the previously-released 39mm model while continuing the run of extra-special models for the 2022 China fake Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watches’ 50th anniversary.

Police Appeal For Help To Find 1:1 UK Best Fake Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Watches Rippers

First it was Rolex Rippers — a gang of light fingered females robbing elderly golf club members of their watches — now it seems high quality replica Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak watches are being targeted.

Being conned out of a Rolex is bad enough, but two robberies of perfect UK fake Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watches in Epsom over the last weekend appear more menacing, according to police, who are appealing for help to find the perpetrators.

Surrey Police are appealing for witnesses following two similar robberies for Swiss made replica watches in Epsom over the weekend on Friday, August 5 and Saturday, August 6.

In the first robbery, which took place on Friday, the victim had been walking home near Ruxley Lane, Epsom, when a vehicle stopped in front of them. A male then exited the vehicle and demanded the victim’s AAA replica watches which was handed over.

The second robbery of the copy watches for sale took place on Saturday where the victim had parked on their driveway and a vehicle pulled up behind them.

Two male suspects then exited the vehicle, demanded the victim’s luxury super clone watches which was also handed over.