Audemars Piguet Royal Oak vs Rolex Oysterquartz | SwissWatchExpo [Watch Review]

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and Rolex Oysterquartz look extraordinarily similar. Learn about the shared history of these watches, why they look so much alike, and what makes them different. Stay tuned and learn from our watch experts Creed and Michael!

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Fresh from the Showcase here with SwissWatchExpo.com. We are featuring today's crazy different models, although they look extraordinarily similar. We've got the Rolex Oysterquartz and we've also got the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak series. And the reason we're focusing on this is because the design is very similar. And when we should also point out is that the bracelets are curiously alike. Interesting. Yeah. And you can watch this cause there's a lot.

What is that? Why do they look so much alike? So in 1971 the Royal Oak was introduced into the world as the savior of Audemars Piguet. Now one of the things that people ask about a lot is what does the Royal Oak mean? Why do they call it the Royal Oak? It was named after the British Royal Navy fleet of ships, which were also, there were 12 shifts apparently in the fleet. If I haven't got my numbers wrong, there is a name of that fleet, the Royal Oak, because apparently King Charles and a hollowed out Royal Oak and a whole history of things. And I'm a terrible history buff. So we're going to skip.

Yeah. Sounds like something that you can look at in the comments section on the video. Absolutely. I'm not interested in going into that history nonetheless.

That's where the idea of Royal Oak. Okay. But more importantly, because of the octagonal shape, it was a porthole sort of Naval influence design. And some people have some strong curious opinions about their Gerald Genta design.

Like this is I guess one of those examples of why they make 31 flavors of ice cream. You don't have to all like the same thing. Um, I love octagonal shapes in general. They make great sometimes, but for some reason, Gerald Genta's designs don't resonate with me and you know, it's okay to not like something even if the home watch world is crazy about it. I really appreciate the artistry that designed the patterns, the, technical excellence of the watches, right. I just don't like them. Well, a strong

opinion. I hear that all the time. And that's true of the Oysterquartz as well because the Oysterquartz was actually introduced to the world. And then in '79 -- we've talked about this before -- it was not a watch that sold a lot. In fact, there's a rumor and again this goes back to those Rolex rumors, that 25,000 to 35,000 watches were produced over the years, most of which sold in Europe. The United States did not see a lot of these being sold and it just wasn't that popular of a watch. To your point, the Gerald Genta design is very controversial. It appeared in the IWC Ingenieur and so on. So when Gerald Genta designed these watches, it had to have some sort of a flavor of difference throughout the years. So what changed across all the different versions of watches from the Ingenieur to the Royal Oak to the, Oysterquartz was the bracelet in 1971.

This design, and I'm picking up one here that's made out of Tantalum, which is a mineral that is actually on the periodic table. It looks like a combination of things. It looks like titanium, but it has the weight of gold. It's extraordinarily heavy. And this is a mid size watch. We also, we just sold and I was getting it prepared for the video. We had a ladies version that was the smaller, I believe it was a 28 millimeter. It was here so short, such a short time. I didn't get a chance to learn a lot about it, I think we had it for less than a week. Right. And so that one's gone unfortunately. But the Tantalum comes in two different designs. They're very, very hard to find cause they do have the 18 karat gold center links. As you can see here. This has kind of got a bluish gray look to it.
The octagonal design. This is the stainless steel version of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. This comes in multiple different sizes, multiple different calibers, argue, argue, argue about all the different things that, that Royal Oaks bring to the table. The most important thing is how this bracelet's designed. This was the very first iteration and what people ask. And the question that was brought up to us is why did the bracelet, because it looks so similar. They just, they're similarly shaped. They're similarly tapered. There's so much that's alike almost seems like the same person designed them. Kind of! And also seems like there might be a bit of patent infringement on from one of the other two but there's not.

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