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Royal Oak Offshore

The Offshore takes the Royal Oak geometry and makes it heavier and wider, then fits it for diving. The bezel on the reference in this collection is steel and does not turn: the sixty-minute dive scale sits on a ring inside the crystal, and it is driven by a second crown on the left of the case while the usual crown on the right winds and sets the watch. The dial carries the same squared texture as the rest of the collection, printed over with the depth rating, and the watch is shown on a rubber strap with markers and hands that stand well clear of the dark surface.

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Squared-texture black dial straight on inside a steel octagonal bezel with exposed screws, a dive scale ring inside the crystal, a crown at three and a second crown at ten, on a black rubber strap
  • Dive scale An internal sixty-minute scale on a ring inside the crystal, driven from a second crown at ten o’clock; the bezel itself is fixed.
  • Case 42 mm steel case, roughly 14.1 mm thick, with a brushed octagonal bezel and exposed hexagonal screw heads.
  • Dial Black squared-texture dial with a date aperture at three o’clock, applied indices and the depth rating printed below the brand lettering.
  • Strap Black rubber strap in the photographs, with a steel pin buckle as catalogued for the reference.

In this collection

One Royal Oak Offshore configuration

The Audemars Piguet brand page

This collection lists a small number of configurations. Series not shown here can still be discussed — send the model and reference and availability is checked for you.

Design notes

What defines the Royal Oak Offshore

Why the timing scale is inside the glass

On a dive watch the rotating scale is there to be turned once at the start of a dive and read for the rest of it, and putting it under the crystal keeps it clear of knocks while leaving the outer bezel as a fixed steel frame. The trade is that the scale can only be moved with the second crown, so the watch is set before entering the water rather than while wearing it. That is worth knowing before comparing it with divers whose scale is on a turning rim.

Height is the number that decides how it wears

A 42 mm case is not unusual; the same case at roughly 14.1 mm thick is. Thickness changes where the watch sits on the wrist, how far it stands off under a cuff and how the strap leaves the lugs. It is also the figure least likely to be right in a listing, since it depends on which case is actually being measured. Ask for a measured height, a lug-to-lug length and a photograph of the watch on a wrist before deciding anything from the diameter alone.

These notes describe the design as it appears in the photographs on this site. Movement, water resistance, weight and material composition are not stated here, because those belong to the specific unit being offered and are confirmed in the conversation before anything is paid.

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Other series and guides

Other Audemars Piguet series here

  • Royal Oak — The octagonal bezel with its exposed screw heads, in a 41 mm case — offered here in steel and rose gold, and in full rose gold on a leather strap.
  • All Audemars Piguet series — the brand page lists every series in this collection.

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