if there’s one watch that still haunts the collective dreams of the watch lover community, it must be the replica audemars piguet royal oak perpetual calendar. cases made of steel, gold, platinum, and forged carbon, married to nearly every type of complication under the sun in haute horology. but the case and bracelet are never in full ceramic.
this fake audemars piguet has championed the use of exotic case materials for the better part of the last decade from titanium and forged carbon to ceramic itself. however, it makes people feel surprised that the brand’s expertise launched o a matching ceramic bracelet for the cheap audemars piguet royal oak in the end. but the bracelet didn’t come easily – some 600 hours of research and development were invested into its production, mainly because the true signature of an audemars piguet isn’t just the employment of exotic materials, but a mastery of finishing them with typical top-end techniques usually reserved for metals like steel or gold.
the result is obvious which are both seamless and sinister – delivering the same singular, unbroken aesthetic between case and bracelet we are always seeing on other audemars piguet royal oak perpetual calendar offerings in steel and gold. however, the way the replica watch has always been meant to be worn. however, the watch is still lightweight in ceramic, yet just assertive enough to lend the feeling of an ultralight titanium sport watch, but one whose finishing goes to eleven.
it just wouldn’t be a royal oak without the textured “grande tapisserie” guilloche dial, nor would it be one without the applied white gold hour indices, or octagonal bezel – all of which are mandatory signatures that have collectively made this watch a joy to behold through the ages. the audemars piguet royal oak perpetual calendar edition gets one other neat flourish – a photorealistic rendering of the moon, as sharply contrasted against the inky black case as the real thing beaming down from a dark winter sky.