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And the Offshore was designed such that it would basically make waves and just create this sort of shock in the luxury watch world. And it certainly did. And, you know, among watchmakers, it was known as The Beast because it was so large. So we'll be going over the case, the dial, the bezel, the crown functions, the kernel functions, as well as the bracelet and the wearing experience. And I'll be giving you my thoughts on all of those as we go through this video. So starting off with the case, this is a full stainless steel construction case bracelet. You name it, it's all stainless steel. This one has the glare proof sapphire crystal with the engraving on the case back with the Royal Oak Offshore logo made just like the one in 1993. Solid case back with that old logo as well. All right, it also has the rubber push pieces very much in line with the original Offshore. The newer ones have the ceramic push pieces, as well as the ceramic crown, but these are the sort of like silicone rubber, silicon rubber sort of push pieces. So it gives it that really sort of not really antiquated, but the classic sort of feel to them as you press down on them. More on that in a moment. But again, back to this case, we have a size of 42 millimeters from finger to thumb. That's the diameter of the case. It's 14.4 millimeters thick. So not something that'll slide under a suit cuff, but it will certainly fit under a jacket cuff, no problem. The water resistance, all of this with the sapphire crystal on the front and the case back on the back, all of this gives you a 100 meter water resistance, good enough for most people. And you and I especially. Now take a look at this bezel. We have the eight hexagonal screws all facing in such a way that they make this concentric circle, fulfilling that sort of gestalt visual perception principle of closure, making that circle, not explicitly, but implicitly. All right, all going around in a very nice circle around this, sort of a octagonal rounded bezel as is known for the Royal Oak and Royal Oak Offshore lines. There's a full brush finishing on all the main front surfaces, front-facing surfaces, as you can see on the front of this bezel, as well as on the front of the case, with the first bevel being a high polish. All right, as you can see on the bezel, as well as on the case itself, having this nice taper down as it meets the large rubber gasket, which was actually intentionally placed there, you know, as part of the design for this watch. And it flares out again to continue on into the bracelet. More on that in a moment. Nice satin brush finishing everywhere else, as you can see, and a very fine satin brush finishing going all the way around the bezel, sort of right in between that rubber gasket and the high polish. All right, it gives it a very nice, interesting, glowing look to it and gives it sort of that modular feel as you wear this on your wrist and look at it face on. Now taking a look at this dial here, we have this nice blued dial with what is known as the petite tapisserie, different from the Royal Oak in that it has the grand tapisserie, and then the mega tapisserie, the newer Royal Oak Offshore. This one mimics the 1993 version with the petite tapisserie patterning there, giving it, it also has that guilloche patterning, as you can see the result of that being the sunburst or sunray type finish in that backdrop of those raised squares, all right. And also these sub counters, these sub dials. Small seconds at the 12 o'clock with the 30 minutes and 12 hours for the chronograph hand, center mounted right in the very front there, all right. Along the outboard, we have the tachymeter or tachymeter depending on how you want to pronounce it, basically measuring your units per hour, units per minute. However you want to measure that using the chronograph hand. Speaking of the chronograph hand, it functions rather nicely, and the tactile feel, that feedback, feels very good, the actuation nice and solid, robust, and no weird, you know, stuttering with that movement. It's incredibly crisp and it moves like a dream, as it sweeps across the style. Also note that the 30 minute sub dial there on the nine o'clock side actually does move slowly. And in time with that large center mounted chronograph hand, lance style, of course, with the Royal Oak hands center mounted as well, just beneath that with the AP logo at the three o'clock side, we have a, can't see it with my lighting here, but there is a date aperture at the three o'clock. Very distinct on this one. It has a white background with a black typeface to it. All right, but otherwise, very easy to see in normal lighting situations, certainly not under a light box where, you know, the light is actually just purely directional and it is only so until you move it, all right. And now further onto the crown functions here, you can simply, let's. We can actually stop the chronograph here, reset it, using the bottom pusher, and it just snaps back. The 12 hour and the 30 minute dials resetting as well. The small seconds will just keep on going, all right. Now unwind the crown at the three o'clock position. This allows you to wind the watch. So if you're at a dead stop, about 20 to 30 full winds is all you need to get to the full power reserve. More on that in a moment. All right, so nice and easy there. Pull the crown out to the next position. You can actually advance the date using the quick set feature. It's about a quarter turn to advance the date by one, each time. Let me see if I can get the angle better on this. Okay, so you can actually see, all right, so it's about a quarter turn to advance the date by one each time. And if you find yourself on say the 30th of a month or near that, all right, you can then just do that quarter turn and there you go. Nice and easy to the 31st. And then once the first of the next month rolls around, once you pass midnight, it'd be nice and easy, no need to pay any further attention to it. Just flip and forget, literally, all right, pull the chrono to the final position. And you'll note that there is that hacking seconds function. That one, that function that I personally like, because I do like being able to control how I set the time and doing so allows you to set the minute hand precisely where you need it to go. Press the crown all the way back in and screw it tightly back against the case to ensure that superior water resistance. A hundred meters or 330 feet below sea level. Okay, there we go. And I must also add that this Silicon rubber pusher, as well as the crown, it feels very excellent in the fingers when you're, you know, pressing these down. There's no chance of accidentally slipping if it happens to get wet, because you know, this is a sports watch. It's made to, you know, be taken to the pool, for example, or out swimming in the ocean. Just be sure to rinse it with clear water afterwards. But these rubber sort of features on the watch do make it very easy and incredibly, incredibly good to just press and also rotate. It feels very good and it works like a dream. Now taking a look at, now what makes all of this possible is the caliber, the 3126 slash 3840. So basically it was the base movement on this watch is Audemars Piguet, but then they added on the chronograph feature from the Dubois Depraz movement, manufactured by Dubois Depraz. And so not entirely in-house made, but it's reliable to the point that it is up to AP standard. Otherwise they simply wouldn't outsource that little stacked piece of the movement, all right. All of that, it has 59 jewels. It gives you a total diameter inside of 29.92 millimeters. So rather small for this watch itself. Again, this one is 42 millimeters across, the diameter of the movement inside is just under 30 millimeters, all right. It beats at a frequency of three Hertz or 21,600 vibrations per hour, total parts of 365, as many days as you have in a year. And it has a total power reserve of 50 hours. So the 50 hours, that's nearly just a little over two whole days. So you can set this down on a Friday evening, pick it back up on a Monday morning, ready to conduct business. And you'll be just fine. No issue there. You may need to start winding the watch the night before on Sunday, but you know, that's actually not that big of a deal. It actually does give you more of that tactical and manual connection with your watch. All right now, taking a look at the framing here of this watch, we have this nice bracelet that's fully integrated, all right and again, this was, this integrated bracelet look began with Audemars Piguet, long, long ago actually, to sort of bring luxury watches back into the market during the court's crisis. And certainly this bracelet has seen much, well, actually very little change actually, because we have this nice, smooth taper down to the clasp. We have a satin brush finishing on all these links, they're rounded on the Offshore. So it gives it that real three-dimensional look, even though you're looking at this on a two-dimensional computer screen or your smartphone, whatever. The way that the light plays on these links and makes it just that much more beautiful and on the intermediary portions, really hard to see here, but there is a high polish just in between. Almost like that what you see on the bevel on the sides of these links, you have that between the links as well, but incredibly hard to see, but, you know, AP, they don't skip a beat there. And when it comes to this folding clasp, you have the double deployment button system. So you have that added security there. It's a little asymmetrical because the AP logo is mounted to one side, whereas there's nothing on the other, but the butterfly open style clasp there, you have the Audemars Piguet stamped logo there on both sides. Nice and beautiful. And that's very thick construction makes it much stronger than the original 1993 version. So you have the 1993 essence here, but the sensibilities of 2018 and certainly the 21st century overall. Now, while we're here, I can actually try it on, and give you my thoughts as to how it wears on the wrist. And certainly, you know, to no one's surprise, it's incredibly heavy because of that 14.4 millimeter thickness and the 42 millimeter dial size, all stainless steel construction, including this bracelet makes it well, makes itself known in not just size, but also the weight. So when you put this on, you will definitely feel it. My wrist measures seven inches in circumference or 18 centimeters. And so I do have plenty of space underneath these lows because honestly it's not really made for me specifically, if you have a larger wrist than I do, than certainly you can wear this. And you know, if you do have a smaller wrist, that's fine too, because that's just the Royal Oak Offshore brand. It's made to be big, large, and in charge and looking at it with that blue dial makes it extremely easy to read. And even if I turn out the lights here, I believe, yes, there is some really nice luminescence going on here with these hour marks as well as these water look hands makes it very nice and symmetrical actually with the way that they glow in the dark, all right. And it's got that nice green hue, that nice light tint to it, makes it very easy to read in any low light situation. And as I'm talking here, it just keeps glowing. It doesn't fade out and it, you know, it doesn't look like it's going to fade out any time soon. It hasn't really changed at all. So, you know, again, the 2018 engineering coming through and just really making this into a new re edition that just holds its own as sort of like the new beast in that sense. It feels very nice on the wrist. If you're into larger watches, the counterweight of this bracelet with full links feels very good. Although it's not tight on my wrist. If I wear it super high up on my arm, uncomfortably high, it does have more weight in the case, less so in the bracelet, but that's not really a huge issue because when you get this, you know what you're getting, you know what you're getting into. It is heavy, but that's all part of the Royal Oak Offshore branding, like I said earlier, all right. So enough of what I think, what do you guys think about this watch? Let us know down in the comments below, be sure to leave a like, as it helps us out, be sure to subscribe as well and hit that bell notification. So you'll be notified when we go live with another video like this one. And as always, if you'd like to purchase this watch, which we can still get, boutique only, but you can get it from us at Jaztime, no problem. We can get it for you as well. Just visit our link down in the description below, Jaztime.com and we'll see you in the next one. Take care.