Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Leo Messi Chronograph Stainless Steel Tantalum Bezel 41mm Grey Index Dial Alligator Leather Strap 26325TS.OO.D005CR.01

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Leo Messi Chronograph Stainless Steel Tantalum Bezel 41mm Grey Index Dial Alligator Leather Strap 26325TS.OO.D005CR.01

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INFORMATION

Condition
Used
Box/Papers
No Box or Papers
Brand
Audemars Piguet
Serial Number
X of 500 pieces
Model Number
26325TS.OO.D005CR.01
Series
Royal Oak Chronograph

CASE

Crown
Screw Down
Case Detail
Tantalum Bezel
Movement
Automatic
Case Back
Solid
Material
Stainless Steel
Case Size
41 mm
Case Shape
Octagonal

DIAL

Dial Type
Analog
Dial Color
Grey
Dial Markers
Index

BRACELET

Band Material
Leather
Clasp
AP Folding Clasp
Bracelet
Alligator Leather Strap

ADDITIONAL INFO

Watch Style
Sports Watch
Gender
Men's
Country of Manufacture
Switzerland
Complication
Chronograph
Water Resistance
50 Meters (165 Feet)
 

Description

Hey, welcome back to Jaztime. Jaztime.com is an online store that buys, sells, and trades authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so you can easily choose the best watch for yourself in the comfort of your own home. We offer the lowest prices anywhere online. If you like to know the price, simply click on the links in a description below. We greatly appreciate if you'd purchase your next watch from us at jaztime.com. So we'll be taking a look at a rare time piece from Audemars Piguet. This is the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph, but this one nicknamed, the Leo Messi. Basically, named after, who is essentially the prime, the best, or the most well known at the very least soccer player, or in other words, football player. Not American football, but you know, South American and Spanish football player. One of the best athletes, probably in the world, still living at the moment, at least as of the making of this video. The reference number for this one, 26325TS.OO.D005CR.01. Quite a mouthful for that name, but we'll be going over all the details here. The case, the dial, the crown, functions as well as the chronograph pushers the bezel, the movement, and the strap here. And I'll be giving you my thoughts on these throughout this video. So, as is pretty standard among Royal Oaks. It's 41 millimeters in case size from finger to thumb that's the two to eight o'clock position. Same as what you get from the 10 to four o'clock position. Minus the pushers, of course. You have a full, or you have a 10.95 millimeter thickness, so it will slide quite nicely under a suit cuff. Water resistant to only 50 meters, but that's all you really need. It's not really made for deep diving. The composition here for the casing is steel, but the bezel itself, let me see. I have it written down in my notes here. The bezel is tantalum, whatever that happens to be, with a brushed brushed anthracite dial. So if you take a look here at the casing, the case itself, solid, stainless steel, satin-brushed finish with the high polish, of course along the, sort of beveled flanks there. Sort of denoting the obvious Royal Oak look there, but sitting on the very front, you have a slightly darker bezel and that is the tantalum there, basically. Sort of becoming that gradient, sort of between the casing and the dial, sort of slightly darker than the case. Diffusing the light very nicely. Satin-brushed finishing on the front, of course, with a very nice, almost a high polish finish. But still, nonetheless, absolutely beautiful finish on that bezel. Three or two bevels to it. Obviously, the hexagonal screws on there all concentric placed as you would typically find on a Royal Oak. But the dial itself, quite special because it doesn't have the ground or mega, or even mini tap dial. This is just an anthracite dial, just a flat dial. Something that you don't see on Audemars Piguet watches and with the 18 karat white gold index markers apply there with luminescence, by the way. Let me turn the lights out so you can see them. Basically, makes it very, very incredibly rare watch. Just even by itself, you don't even need to say that it's limited to 500 to know. This is incredibly rare from AP themselves. All right, so you have that luminescence, basically illuminating the Royal Oak hands as well as the index hour marks. You have the sub dials in their own little placements there, small seconds at the six o'clock, 30 minute chronograph dial for the three o'clock, and 12 hours at the nine o'clock. You'll also have a date aperture at the 4:30 position. All part of that nice movement. That's been basically in Royal chronograph for who knows how long, a very long time. If you take a look at the texture here for the dial it is a statin-brush finished dial with white gold applied hour markers as I mentioned earlier. And basically, that's pretty much all you get, but that's all you really need for quite a limited edition model. This one, one of 500, obviously numbered on the back at the top with the serial number at the bottom. And the case back here, quite special in its own. It does have the limited edition print on there with the Royal Oak full sandblasted finish with the high polish there, and the name, Leo Messi for whom this watch has been attributed. All right, so taking a look here at the functionality for this watch, we have the winding crown at three o'clock position. Base position after unwinding it, allows you to wind the launch. So at a dead stop takes about 20 or 30 full winds to get to the full power reserve. Rather simple there. Pull the crown out to the next position. This allows you to advance the date forward. It's about a half turn. Somewhere between a quarter and a half turn, maybe like a a third of return to advance the date by one. So you can see it moving forward you still have that sort of anthracite coloration and the back of that date disc with its own white font there for the numerics. And if you need to advance it by one, you can do so, rather simply. Pull the crown out to the final position. Note that that small seconds does continue to move, but it is a small seconds dial. It's there if you absolutely need it, but not the most important part of the Royal Oak Chronograph. So you can basically set the minute hand to wherever you want. If you want to do it more precisely you can and press the crown back in. Now, this is an older movement, so the minute hand will tend to jump. So, just if you have this in your possession you will get used to exactly where you need to place it. Be sure to screw the crown back in tightly to it. Maintain that water resistance. Now, the chronograph functions here require a unscrewing of both the chronograph hands if you want to use it entirely. It's currently stopped, so let's start it up right now. You have that center mount of chronograph hand. So you can basically use this as your large center seconds hand if you so desire. It won't wear down the movement at all. It looks absolutely beautiful as it sweeps across and watching it move past 12, you can see that it ticks up that 30 minute timer. You press that again to stop it and press the bottom pusher to reset it as well as the sub dials there. And be sure to also screw in the pushers if you're not going to use them, so it basically maintains the water resistance. It's good added security, actually. So, a very good detail from Audemars Piguet. I wish they sort of, they had this on all of their watches, even the offshores because you don't want to accidentally press it, actuate it, and potentially let water in if you're under water. But anyway, this is not really a water wash. So what makes all of this work on the inside? Let me check my notes here. Yes, it is the 2385. Again, you can't see through the case back, but you do have that special solid steel case back with the Leo Messi name there. The 2385 on the inside features a chronograph hours, minutes and small seconds with the date, with the quick setting. The number of parts, 304, 37 of them being jewels. It beats that frequency of three Hertz or 21,600 vibrations per hour, 26.2 millimeters, so it does not fill in the entire space here. And that's why the date is brought in just a tiny bit. The date wheel is literally at the very edge of the movement there. Not that that's a huge issue. It's a very signature placement and I believe a very good placement when it comes to the overall, you know, the clear space around the date aperture there. Very comfortable and quite pleasing to look at. The power reserve for this watch, about 40 hours, so you can basically wear this all day, no need to wind it. You can set it down for one day, maybe a day and a half no need to wind it. But after about two days you will need to pick it up, give it a good wind, but you're good to go there. All right, and oh, I'm zoomed out here. You can also see that this does have a specific strap here. What they call a hand stitched large square scale anthracite alligator strap. Also, with the stainless steel AP folding clasps. So basically, a sign of the times, sort of a not really the newest clasp here, but this is a all high polished with the AP letter mark with the word mark... Letter form logo with the word mark on the clasp itself. All high polished there with a nice sandblast to finish on the inside. Very, very tiny, very minute. And here, the large scale anthracite, actually does fit in very beautifully with the overall color composition here for this watch sizing holes for preference, obviously. You can just punch it through whichever hole works for you. And once again, I'll try it on my wrist to show you how it looks on a seven inch wrist. Again, this watch is 41 millimeters in case size, so it is kind of big. It is big for me. So, I'm even wearing this a little bit higher up on my wrist than I typically would. Let me move it down a little bit. There we go, so if I were to wear this, it's really big. You'll barely see any strap on there when you're looking straight on, but you know, the straps do flare out a little bit. They do add a little bit of breathability under the lugs here, so it feels very good when you wear it all day. Very good and dressy look. That's sort of the style that they're going for here with a tiny little splash of the sporty goodness from the chronograph there. Let's people know that you're there for business and for fun all at the same time. Nicely dressed up sports watch from Audemars Piguet. Again, this one limited to only 500 pieces, so it's a very nice appearance for an AP watch, especially Royal Oak offshore chronograph, or Royal Oak Chronograph. Very distinct looking dial and something that you will probably never see. You know, just out in the wild somewhere. You're gonna have to know someone who gets, who has one of these. But we can certainly get one for you here at Jaztime. This one is currently for sale by the way. And absolutely beautiful, feels very good on the wrist, and even though this is kind of like an older model, if you refer to the photos on our website, it is an older style box, but you can get it from us with basically a brand new stitching here on the strap. This is, yeah... It looks like it has never been worn. So, quite a rarity for a pre-owned watch, but that's just how things go sometimes. Anyway, enough of what I think. What do you guys think about this watch? Let us know down in the comments below what you think about this Royal Oak Chronograph from Audemars Piguet. Again, the reference number for this one, 26325TS.OO.D005CR.01 Let us know what you think about it. Do you think this one is worthy of the name, the nickname for Leo Messi. Probably the best football player in existence. Let us know what you think down in the comments below. Be sure to subscribe, hit the bell notifications, so you can be notified when we go live with another video like this one. And as always, if you like to purchase this watch, or any other watch, new, used, discontinued, we can get it for you here at Jaztime. Thanks for watching, take care. We'll see you in the next one.