Audemars Piguet Royal Oak ref. 56175ST in stainless steel wearing four decades with complete

wearing four decades with complete authenticity

creamy gold tone that sits somewhere between ivory and yellow

the cream dial showing beautifully and the gold retaining its warmth throughout

the kind that rewards those who look beyond the obvious references and appreciate what Patek was doing long before the Nautilus existed

Released in the early 1970s

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak ref. 56175ST in stainless steel wearing four decades with completeIn 1972, Gerald Genta sketched the Royal Oak in a single evening, under pressure to deliver something Audemars Piguet had never attempted: a luxury sports watch in steel, priced and finished as though it were gold. The idea seemed contradictory at the time. Five decades on, it is the reference against which every subsequent steel sports watch has been measured. Reference 56175ST belongs to the smaller Royal Oak family, with a more compact case size