Five new Royal Oak Offshore Music Editions are being released by Audemars Piguet to commemorate its musical collaborations.
The five watches — two with 37mm cases and three with 43mm cases — all have colorful VU Meter versions of the Tapisserie dials that are distinctive to the Royal Oak family and are either printed with luminous ink or set with colored gemstones. They also all have applied 18K white gold hour markers and the AP monogram.
The strap studs on the Royal Oak have a knurled texture that makes them “reminiscent of jack plugs,” and the crown guards were designed with mixing console faders in mind. Each watch comes with a set of four interchangeable rubber straps with a mosaic pattern in blue, black, turquoise, yellow, or green, all with titanium AP pin buckles.
Both the 37mm and 43mm versions of the titanium watch with the blue VU Meter dial are only 500 pieces each. Both have “Limited Edition of 500 Pieces” engraving on titanium and sapphire exhibition casebacks.
Two 18K white gold designs with blue aventurine dials and invisible-set Harmony-cut tsavorites, peridots, rubies, and sapphires in blue, green, orange, and yellow come in either 37mm or 43mm case sizes, but this time they are not limited editions. The 43mm model has 230 stones, compared to the 37mm model’s 166 stones (3.7CT) (6.15CT).
The final design is limited to 250 pieces and has a 43mm black ceramic case with titanium studs, crown guards, and pin buckle on the strap.
The two new in-house 4Hz time-only automatic movements, Calibre 5909 for the 37mm watches and Calibre 4309 for the 43mm options, with respective power reserves of 60 and 70 hours, power the watches. The 2022 movement upgrades, which were added to the Royal Oak collection to commemorate the model’s 50th birthday, come in both forms. The 37mm Royal Oak Offshore Music Edition Titanium is priced at £26,700 (roughly $32,100 USD).
