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Audemars Piguet - Royal Oak Chronograph

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph Rose Gold 39mm White Index/Black Subdial & Bracelet 25960OR.OO.1185OR.02

Audemars Piguet - Royal Oak Chronograph

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph Rose Gold 39mm White Index/Black Subdial & Bracelet 25960OR.OO.1185OR.02
Item No.
25960OR.OO.1185OR.02-1
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INFORMATION

Brand
Audemars Piguet
Series
Royal Oak Chronograph
Model Number
25960OR.OO.1185OR.02
Model Year
Current Model
Production Year
Current Production
Condition
Used
Box/Papers
Box & Papers

CASE

Material
Rose Gold
Case Size
39 mm
Case Shape
Octagonal
Case Back
Solid
Crown
Screw Down
Bezel
Octagonal Bezel
Movement
Automatic

DIAL

Hands
Luminous
Dial Color
White
Dial Type
Analog
Date at
3 o'clock
Dial Markers
Grande Tapisserie

BRACELET

Band Material
Rose Gold
Clasp
AP Folding Clasp

ADDITIONAL INFO

Gender
Men's
Watch Style
Sports Watch
More Information
Welcome to Jaz Time. JazTime.com is an online store that buys, sells, trades, authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so our customers can easily choose the best watch for themselves in the comfort of their own home. If you would like to know the price, simply click on the link in the description below. If you enjoy our videos, we'd greatly appreciate if you would buy a watch at JazTime.com. In fact, you could buy this watch, which is why we're doing this video. So, let's take a look. Today, I'm going to be reviewing the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak chronograph, rose gold, white dial, with black sub dials, reference 2-5-9-6-0-O-R.O-O.1-1-8-5-O-R.O-2. I'm gonna talk to you guys about the case, the bezel, the dial, the sub dial, the bracelet, the buckle, the movement, try it on, and give you my thoughts. So, let's dive right in. So, as I told you, at the very beginning of this video, this watch is rose gold. Audemars Piguet also calls it pink gold. Some people call it rose gold, red gold. Basically, it's all the same thing. It's gold mixed with bronze to give it this more pinkish or dark, darker color. Yellow gold is just yellow gold. That's the natural color of gold and it looks very yellow, as you might imagine. And pink gold adds a little bit of copper to make it have this darker tone. It makes it look less flashy because sometimes people don't want to wear a precious metal watch but they don't want it to have this super yellowish look to it. And sometimes, people don't like the yellowish look. They want this more bronze looking color to it. Hence, the popularity of pink gold, rose gold, whatever you want to call it. It's an 18 carat gold, as I said earlier. So, the size of this watch is, what I really like to tell you, is 39 millimeters. That's from my thumb to my index finger. Now me, personally, I love 39 millimeter. And I tell you why, right now, Audemars, at least as of 2020, Audemars Piguet is making chronographs in either 41 millimeter or 37 millimeter, or, sorry, sorry. 38 millimeter. So, either 41 or 38. Now, 41 is a little bit big. If you're a bigger guy and you like bigger watches, that's perfect for you. But 41, keep in mind, Audemars Piguet wears a little bit big. And the reason that it wears big is, you see how I'm holding it on it's side? These edges come sloped. Which actually makes, where on other watches, it's flat at a 90 degree. This is actually like a 45 degree angle. Which makes the watch look a little bit bigger. See, I can't fold it any smaller than it is. which makes the bracelet always look, so you can always see the bracelet. Whereas, on other watches, they're completely flat, at 90 degrees, which makes Audemars Piguet wear a little bit bigger. So, 41 is actually kind of like other watches like 43. And the 39 is actually like other watches 40 or 41. So, yeah, anyways, they make it right now in 41 or 38. This watch at 39. I'm not really sure why they discontinue the 39. I have a 7.5 inch wrist, which is an average man's wrist size. And I'll show you at the very end. It really fits very well. 39 is a very sweet spot. I don't know why they discontinued it. They made it above and below that, but not exactly this 39. It might be because 39 fits right in the middle. Whereas, 38 is small and 41 is large. I don't know why, but anyways, okay, this one's 39. So anytime, by the way, it's discontinued. Okay. Now let's talk about the thickness, since we're talking about the case. The thickness from my thumb to my index finger is 11 millimeters. Now, that might not mean much to you, but by comparison, a Datejust is approximately 12 millimeters and an offshore, Royal Oak offshore, is around 14.5 millimeters. So, it's a lot bigger. It's like 20% bigger. It's super thick. Okay, let's talk about the dial. Now, what I really like about this dial, it's very special. It's a silver tone with grand tapestry pattern and it has bi colors, counters, and pink gold applied outer markers and Royal Oak hands with luminescent coatings. Okay, what does that all mean? Basically, you can say it's a silver dial. Although, some people call it white. I can't really tell, you know, to be honest, looking at it myself without the video, it actually also looks white. So, white or silver, whatever. But what I like about this, is that it has these black sub dials. Now, they also make this watch in yellow gold, well, they used to at least. And it has a very similar reference number. It's the same. The first five digits are the same. 25960. But instead of O-R, which stands for a rose gold, it says B-A, which stands for yellow gold. Now, they make it in yellow, but they make the sub dials white. It looks really lame. I don't think it looks that good. And you know what? I think the market agrees, because the rose gold version of this, some people call it the Panda silver with black sub dials. Really makes a nice contrast. It makes it pop. Okay. Now, since we're talking about the dial here, as I said, it's a grand tapestry. Now, what does that mean? You see these little waffles, or whatever, these little squares? Well, those squares, you know, that's their grand tapestry pattern in the Royal Oaks. It's called a mega tapestry pattern. It has much bigger waffles. These are like small waffles. It kind of makes sense. Royal Oak is supposed to be a dress watch. You shouldn't be having gigantic waffles. Now I said, at the beginning of this, is that this has a luminescent coating. So, this is what it's going to look like at night. Now, I gotta be honest, it doesn't really read that well at night. But I'm pretty sure most of us aren't going to be wearing our gold watch, you know, to sleep. Although that is, you know, what it's going to look like at night. You can still read it, not the best, but you can still read it. Okay? So, and by the way, if you want to get the 38 millimeter I have that at JazTime.com. For whatever reason, they keep it in rose gold, but they changed the dial, which is also very beautiful and in its own regard, has its charm. But this one, this is the only one that is a 39 with this white and black sub dial to make it look like a Panda dial. It's the only one that liked this. The new 38 looks slightly different. It has like gold sub dials, I think. Okay, anyways, that's another watch we'll talk about it later. Okay. Let's talk about the bracelet. Now, the bracelet is an 18 carat, pink gold bracelet with a folding AP clasp. Now this part of the bracelet, the actual bracelet part, is the same as the in production version. And if you look at it, I'm trying to show you here. Their bracelet is really where they shine. They really smoke everybody, if you ask me. Everybody meaning Paddock, and Rolex, Vacheron. They smoke 'em, easily smoke 'em. Why? Okay. Well, firstly, you see the tapered the design on the bracelet here, right? You can see it kind of goes shorter to skinnier. Okay. Well, that's not so special. A lot of other people do that. Rolex does that. Although, not quite to this degree. But you know, they do a great job. Instead of putting pins or, sorry, spring bars, they do it how it should be done, which is, you know, old school, put a a screw in there, so that doesn't come undone. This ain't ever coming out, unless you unscrew it. Which is a really great idea, and, you know, on Rolexes and other watches, you can get some flex on the bracelet. On APS, nothing, not, nothing. And they don't even put any ceramic inserts in or anything into it. And if you look at the finish, okay. Now the top part of it is brushed gold. Now this part right here, if you notice the case, it kind of comes out of high polish and it extends down, all high polish. And then, in between, it's crazy. I don't know how you would polish this. In fact, I would not polish it myself. You see where my pinky's pointing? Those are all high polished. So, it makes this watch kind of glimmer in the light. It looks absolutely incredible. It's the best bracelet I've ever seen. You know, unfortunately you can't see the movement. So I'm just going to tell you about it. It's a self winding, 2385 caliber movement. It's a very common movement. They've been using for a very long time. It has a diameter of 26.2 millimeters, and the oscillator, or the rotor, is in made in 18 karat gold, and has 37 jewels. And has a power reserve of 40 hours. And it has 304 parts. It's massive. Now if I'm not mistaken, the newer version of this, actually still uses the same 2385 movement. I think that's because the 2385 movement is very skinny. And if you compare it to the chronograph, its older brother, which you use uses a caliber 3216, that move is really fat. Even though they both do the same thing. So, you know, probably the movement is the reason why they're, have different thicknesses. Now you can't really see it in the in the video, or at least not very clearly, on the edges here, where I'm pointing, those are all gold hallmarks. So, yeah, this watch is pretty badass. Okay. Where are we now? I think we've pretty much finished everything, right? I talked about the chrono too. You have to actually unscrew these chronos. Right here, I'm going to actually do that for you right now. So, you unscrew it for start stop and it makes sense, right? You unscrew it so you can, so that, and obviously don't do this in water. The second hand is the one who is moving. Oh, yeah. By the way, you know the AP does very well, is like, have you noticed on other chronos, such as the Daytona, they don't put the date. It's pretty annoying, actually. It's one of my qualms about, hey, if you got such an expensive watch, can't even tell the date, what's up with that? You know, how often do we use a chronograph? I, for one, don't. Okay, here we go. We're going to reset it. Nice click and it returns back to the center. And most people are just going to wear it at the center. And then you just simply close the chronograph. And of course it has a date here and it's a quick set. So, it's a much more functional watch. Most of us use the date. They don't, we don't really use the chronograph. Although, I like to look at it. I don't really use it. You know, it's kind of too much work to unscrew this, and tie it up, to like, F all that. Okay. Anyhow, here we go. Let's try this thing on. Now. Look, if you want to buy this watch, please don't buy it from someone else, and watch my review. If you want to buy this watch, please support Jaz Time. Which is why I'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon, making these YouTube videos. So people, like yourself, will actually go to our website, JazTime.com, and buy it. Okay. So, here are my thoughts. Now I, for on, am a huge fan of AP and I actually really liked the 39. My wrist is too small for wearing the 41. A lot of people do wear the 41 but it just looks too massive on my wrist. And I have videos of it, reviews of it on my wrist. The 41. It's also a great watch, you know, don't get me wrong but I can't wear it because it's too big for me. So if I'm going to wear a chronograph from AP, it's gotta be either this 39 or the 38. I can't really tell much difference between the two, 39, 38. Basically the same. One millimeter is not much. But I definitely can tell the difference when it goes to 41 and it looks too big. It looks like more of my dad's watch. I don't really like that. So, for me, I got to wear this size watch. I know, you know, I kind of like it, how it, when the dial is a little bit small here, and then there's bracelet. I don't like the watch to be all headed, no bracelet. It just looks lame. And you know, it just looks like you're wearing someone else's watch. So if, you know, it really depends on your wrist size. This is my thought. And you know, I've only sold 10,000 watches. So I guess my opinion might count for something. You know, the best looking watch is when you have dial a little bit of bracelet, and then, you know, and then, of course it needs to fit comfortable and look not too fat. I mean profile wise, not too thick this way. That makes sense? So for all those reasons, you know, that's why I'm a real fan of this watch. And I really liked the Panda. For me, I don't like the yellow gold that has a flat white. It just it looks like there's no life. This one, it breathes life to me. I love the contrast. I love the size. You know, I actually even love the old school AP folding clasp. I like that it says that. I just love this watch. I think it's badass. So if you want to buy this watch, please go to JazTime.com. J-A-Z-T-I-M-E.com.

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