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Model reference: 15400SR.OO.1220SR.01
A 41 mm Royal Oak Selfwinding in steel and 18-carat rose gold, shown with its silver Grande Tapisserie dial, a date at three o’clock and the two-tone bracelet.
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About this watch
This is the 15400SR, the 41 mm Royal Oak Selfwinding built with a stainless-steel case and a bezel and centre links in 18-carat rose gold. The front frame sets out both colours at once: the octagonal bezel across the top of the dial, and the bands of rose gold running down the middle of the bracelet with steel on either side of them.
The second and third frames move closer — the case at an angle with the crown on the right, then the dial itself — and the fourth turns the watch over to the sapphire case back, where the winding weight can be seen through the glass. What the photographs cannot settle is raised in the conversation: which movement is fitted in the offered watch, what the metal of that particular piece is, which bracelet and clasp it arrives with, and what its water resistance has actually been tested to.
The Royal Oak case is not a plain round barrel. Its sides taper towards a thin profile on this reference, and the bracelet leaves the case at a fixed angle, so the first links curve around the wrist almost immediately instead of standing out from the lugs.
That is why the size on the card only starts the conversation. What decides the fit is the lug-to-lug measurement, the curvature of the first links and how many links are fitted. Two people with the same wrist circumference can end up with different answers. Ask for the lug-to-lug figure and for the wrist size the bracelet is currently set for.
Grande Tapisserie is a raised squared pattern laid over the dial surface in a grid, so the dial is never flat: light catches the top of each square and the grooves between them read darker. Across a 41 mm dial there is room for the grid to stay clearly legible, and in the third frame the individual squares are easy to pick out.
The pattern is also what makes the date conspicuous. At three o’clock the grid stops and a window is cut through it, with a fine minute track printed around the outer rim and applied baton markers sitting above the squares. A textured dial shows dust, marks and any polishing far more readily than a plain one, so view the frames at full size before asking questions.
On a two-tone Royal Oak the gold is not spread evenly. On this reference the bezel is rose gold, the case and the outer links are steel, and the centre links of the bracelet are rose gold, which produces long bands of colour running lengthwise down the bracelet rather than a solid-metal watch.
That arrangement changes what you see from each side. Straight on, the bezel and the centre bands dominate and the watch reads warm overall. From the side, the steel flank of the case and the outer links are what the eye picks up first. Which tone wins depends on light and angle, so judge the balance from the angled frame as well as the straight-on one.
The photographs establish shapes: the octagonal bezel with its eight screw heads, the squared dial pattern, the aperture at three o’clock, the alternating link colours. They do not establish what runs inside the case, what the offered piece is made from, or how it has been treated since it was assembled.
So the movement fitted, the metal of the case and of its gold parts, the thickness of any plating or wrap if something is not solid, the bracelet and clasp that ship with the watch and its water-resistance state are all questions rather than findings. Ask them directly, with the reference number, before reading any photograph as a description of the piece you would receive.
The eight screw heads are the most exposed metal on the bezel, because they sit at the corners where a watch collects contact, and the bright edges of the bracelet links mark sooner than the brushed faces beside them.
Ask for close-ups of two or three bezel corners and of the bracelet lying flat, with the clasp both open and closed, and ask how many spare links come with the watch. The clasp itself is not visible in the frames supplied here, so its type and the adjustment it offers come from the seller rather than from the photographs.
The 15400 generation followed the 15300 and it has since been discontinued, which is why this reference turns up as a used watch rather than a current catalogue piece. Its date sits at three o’clock and its dial is the silver Grande Tapisserie.
If you are weighing it against other Royal Oak Selfwinding watches, compare the reference number and the case size rather than the photographs, because dial patterns and apertures can look similar across generations. Bring the reference 15400SR.OO.1220SR.01 and the size you want into the conversation, and ask which related variants are on offer at the same time.
Specification
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Model reference | 15400SR.OO.1220SR.01 |
| Model size | 41 mm |
| Dial | Silver-tone, Grande Tapisserie |
| Dial print | Brand name and Automatic above and below the centre; Swiss Made at the bottom |
| Hour-marker layout | Applied baton markers at every hour, over the squared pattern |
| Hand arrangement | Baton hour and minute hands, thin centre seconds |
| Date display | 3 o’clock, plain aperture cut through the pattern |
| Bezel design | Octagonal, brushed, with eight visible screw heads |
| Colour combination | Silver-tone dial with rose-gold bezel, hands and centre links, steel elsewhere |
| Bracelet shown | Integrated multi-link bracelet with rose-gold centre links and steel outer links |
| Clasp | Not shown in the frames supplied here |
| Case back | Sapphire back, winding weight visible through the glass |
| Movement (reference design) | Self-winding calibre 3120, 60 hours of power reserve, 21,600 vibrations per hour |
| Water resistance (reference design) | 50 m |
| Crystal | Sapphire, front and back |
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