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

wearing four decades with complete authenticity

with a rotating bezel

It is a dial that has no equivalent in the catalogue

The matte dial and the sapphire crystal sit together in that brief window of Rolex production that collectors increasingly seek out

expressed through traditional case forms and the kind of dial craft that requires no explanation

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