ULTRA RARE Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 18k Yellow Gold Vintage 80's Ref. 6023BA
AP watch full service d 01.11.2018. YELLOW GOLD, ROYAL OAK, REF. Its Ultra Rare Vintage 80s (B-series)!! CASE MATERIAL: 18k Yellow Gold. BRACELET / STRAP MATERIAL: 18k Yellow Integrated Bracelet. BRACELET / STRAP SIZE: 7.2 inches / 182mm + 1 Link Extra. FUNCTIONS: Time and Quickset Date. What a gorgeous watch in top condition this crisp Royal Oak from the 80s. The case and bracelet are like new, the dial has the desirable long indexes and has a grey color. The movement is Quartz and keeping perfect time. Accompanied by its original box. All in all a fabulous Royal Oak for the 36mm size lover.
Audemars Piguet introduced the Royal Oak in 1972 and it was a game-changer for the luxury watch industry. Based upon a design by Gerald Genta, the Royal Oak was the first luxury steel watch with integrated bracelet.
Priced at a level above gold watches, it was a polarizing watch and it was highly uncertain if it would be a success. Since its inception Audemars Piguet would make many variations of the Royal Oak including this mid-size version.This watch features an 18k yellow gold case and bracelet, case back, and bezel also in yellow gold. This watch was intended for a mans wrist when it came out but today would be suitable for the wrist of a lady. By the 1970s, the Swiss watch industry was in a state of crisis. The introduction of the automatic chronograph movements--like the Zenith El Primero--proved no match against the innovation from Japan that shook the industry to the core. Faced with the influx of Quartz watches in the watch industry, consumers turned to the reliable Japanese products, and sales of Swiss mechanical watches plummeted.
But the Audemars Piguet, the venerable manufacture based in Le Brassus, had a secret weapon in their arsenal that would safeguard the future of the brand--and, they hoped, revitalize the faltering Swiss watch industry. Gerald Genta wasn't an unknown entity to the head honchos of the Swiss watch industry, having designed pieces for Omega and Universal Genève. The man on the other end of the line, AP managing director Georges Golay, told Genta that he needed a design for "an unprecedented steel watch" for the Italian market.That first Royal Oak, introduced in 1972, was something entirely new--so new, in fact, that it more or less created the genre of a "luxury sports watch, " a sports watch that would not look out of place on a yacht. However, sales of the Royal Oak were sluggish at first, with authorized dealers failing to sell out their allotment of 400 Royal Oaks a piece. But all that changed in 1974, when the head of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, greeted the public wearing a Royal Oak.
- Brand: Audemars Piguet
- Model: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak
- Strap Colour: Yellow Gold
- Case Size: 36mm
- Extra Links: Yes
- Type: Wristwatch
- Lug Width: 36mm
- Style: Sport
- Case Finish: Matte
- With Original Packaging: Yes
- Case Colour: Yellow Gold
- Number of Jewels: 10 Jewels
- Department: Adult
- Strap Material: Solid Gold
- Year Manufactured: 1980-1989
- Display: Analog
- Country/Region of Manufacture: Switzerland
- Metal Purity: 18k
- Case Material: 18k yellow gold
- Movement: Quartz (Battery)
- Water Resistance: Not Water Resistant
- Features: Date Indicator
- Gender: Unisex
- Dial Colour: Yellow Gold
- With Service Records: Yes
- MPN: Does Not Apply