Royal Oak: From Iconoclast to Icon coffee table book

This coffee table book edited by ASSOULINE retraces how the Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak created a stir upon its release in 1972, with its armour of hand-finished stainless-steel encasing the thinnest self-winding mechanical movement of its era and has shone around the world in the decades that have followed. For the first time, steel was ennobled to the same status as gold. Inspired by the profound cultural, artistic, and industrial changes of the 1960s and early 1970s, this forward-looking timepiece anticipated a more active yet casual lifestyle, while heralding the beginning of a new high-end watchmaking era combining sportiness and refinement.

Author: journalist Bill Prince.

292 pages.

400 illustrations.

In English language.

Dimensions: 32 x 38.3 x 4.7 cm.

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