And 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. And if you'd like to know the price, simply click on the links in the description below. We greatly appreciate it if you purchase your next watch from us at Jaztime.com. Today we'll be talking about an old discontinued, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph. This one has the model number 26400AU.00.A002CA.01. What all that means, it's basically a black ceramic bezel, as you would typically find on, you know, a typical Royal Oak Offshore these days, but the case is actually made of carbon fiber. or what they call forged carbon, but we all know it's carbon fiber, just look at the patterning on it. And it also has titanium, intermediate links connecting to a black rubber strap with a titanium buckle. I'll be going over the case, dial, the bezel, crown functions, the pusher functions, as well as the movement, and the strap. And I'll be giving you my thoughts as to why I think this is probably the best Royal Oak Offshore I've seen to date, and I'm disappointed to see that they don't have these anymore. All right so anyway, starting off with the case. We have a full 44 millimeter size case from two to eight or 10 to four, same distance. All right, 44 millimeters, it's 14.11 millimeters thick. So it's not going to slide under a suit cuff very easily, but it'll fit under your jacket sleeve no problem. It has water resistance of 100 meters or 330 feet below sea level. So no problem there. I wouldn't take it further than, you know, say your backyard swimming pool, but that's up to you. Just don't go deep diving with it. All right, so taking a look at the overall construction of this case here. We have what they call a forged carbon, but what is essentially carbon fiber. Now, why is carbon fiber is such a good thing? Well, for one it's light. Two, it's actually difficult to see any sort of scratches or marring on a case like this, because as you can see, there's a very specific pattern that is only really, you know, seen on carbon fiber moulding. And honestly, it's a very unique pattern and every pattern is actually specific to each specific model of this watch. So whatever pattern you get, that's what you get. But you know, it has a very distinct overall look and depending on how you look at it in the light, if you have, if you're using this, if you're looking at it with both eyes and not so much through your computer screen, you can see that there is actually some sort of dimensionality as some of these different flakes actually reflect light at different angles. So there's sorta like a three-dimensional almost look to it, but foremost it's actually incredibly light. And that is what makes this, to me, what I think is the ultimate sports watch right now. All right, now take a look at this bezel here, we have a nice brush finishing, as you would expect on the front, nice high Polish along the first bevel. Second, a nice satin brush finishing going all the way around those hexagonal screws, a telltale sign that this is an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. The Offshore making it such that you have a very thick rubber gasket, sealing that water resistance, all right. The hexagonal screws, their slots facing in such a circular pattern that it fulfills that gestalt visual perception, principle of closure, giving you that sense that it is a full circle because of the way that the slots path around. Alright now, taking a look at the style. We have the inner bezel being the tachymeter, or Tack-ee-meter, depending on your region, how you pronounce it, right? That's for use with the chronograph hand. As you can see, it starts up and it moves very nicely, sweeps all the way across, and ends right at that inner bezel showing you units per hour. For example, if you're measuring say production lines and stuff like that. We have a Mega Tapisserie pattern, a black Mega Tapisserie pattern. No Guilloshe patterning here. So you're not going to get any sort of sunburst finishing on that main dial, but you do have that chaptering and the hour hands or the hour, the index hour marks, 18 carat white gold, with the sub counters also in black. Now those have very, very fine finishing giving those individual sunray patterning. As you can see, I'm moving it throughout this light box, and you can see the sort of sunburst effect on those many dials. Data aperture at the three o'clock, Audemars Piguet logo closer to the center there with the small seconds at the 12 o'clock, 30 minute chronograph dial at the nine o'clock, 12 hours at the six. We also have luminescence on this dial here. As you can see what those Royal Oak hands, just a telltale Royal Oak overall look with those index hour marks. Nicely symmetrical, also. Double house mark for the 12 o'clock, shorter ones for the three, six, and nine, all the rest just fitting in very nicely. So this is actually a very good layout for this dial as well. Makes it very comfortable, very nice to look at in any lighting situation. All right, now let's focus here. Okay now taking a look at the functions of this watch. Well, it is, as you would expect, simply unwind the crown at the three o'clock position. This allows you to wind the watch, right. About 20 to 30 full winds is all you need to get to the full power reserve once, if you are at a dead stop. So nice and easy there. If you pull the crown out to the next position, you'll note that you can actually rotate the crown about halfway counter, or clockwise rather, to advance the date forward by one. Nice and easy. If you find yourself on say the 30th of a month, you can just push it over once to get to the 31st. And then once the hour hand rolls around past midnight, it will easily just go onto the first of the next month nice and easy there. Pull the crown out to the final position. It does have that hacking seconds function. Thank god, I love that. All right so that allows you to then place the hand precisely wherever you want to put it in relation to where the second hand is, wait for the atomic clock to come around, you can set it, and then just press the crown back in nice and easy. It starts at that seconds hand once more. You can wind it tightly against the case to ensure that superior water resistance, all right. Now, also for the off shores, we have this chronograph pusher layout, ceramic buttons with a titanium sort of crown guard system here, nice and robust. And it just feels really good for that actuation. Nice and clicky with that vertical clutch with the column wheel, allowing for perfect start and perfect stop mechanics for that chronograph hand center mounted. You can keep it running as a large center seconds hand, if you want. You don't want to use that small seconds. You got a large center seconds and you can use this to time things for up to 12 hours at a time. So very handy if you're going for a very long meeting, maybe you're just timing the longest filibuster in US history. Well, there you go. You have that ready at the forefront right here on your wrist, alright? And you press that again to stop it, press the bottom pusher to reset the center chronograph hand, as well as the two chronograph dials with the red hands as well for those. You can tell a small seconds is the small seconds because it has the white hand to match the index hour marks very nice and easy. Okay, so what makes all of this work? It is the, I believe partially in house made, 3126 and the 3840 caliber manufacturer. You can see it through case back. It has an exhibition case back, right? So it has the chronograph hours, minutes, and seconds with the date with the rapid setting functions there. Very, very small movement actually. That's because this is, well, partially what they've, they sort of stacked their own chronograph movement onto a Dubois Depraz movement, all right. A company that they trust to make their movements to, you know, make sure that it ensures that it keeps time properly. You have a self winding mechanism, that winding rotor, right, makes it very easy to wind the launch without even having to use the crown. Simply wearing it on your wrist will keep it wound up. Has 59 jewels, 365 parts total, a diameter of only 29.92 millimeters. So it's about three quarters of the size of the case here. So basically whatever you can see in here, that's all there is. But you know, that's not to say that it's all doom and gloom because it's an incredible piece of machine work, incredible engineering here. All very nicely finished, hand finished by Audemars Piguet. Altogether this has a 50 hour power reserve. So you can set it down on a Friday evening, pick it back up on a Monday morning, ready to conduct business. No problem, no need to wind. Well, you may need to wind the watch depending on how early you sat it down on Friday, but no issue there, all right. So taking a look at the framing here, we have these intermediate straps to integrate this, intermediate links rather to integrate this rubber strap and very nice stippled texture, almost sandblasted in appearance with a buckle loop here. Nice and easy with that AP letterform logo, nicely sandblasted onto this buckle with the satin brush finishing, right. And with that loop system, makes it very easy to size on the fly. And speaking of which, we can actually try it on here. And I can give you my thoughts as to how it wears on the wrist. Now, given that just about anyone can wear these well, I probably wouldn't go more than someone who has maybe say a six and a half inch wrist, anything smaller, well this will look like a behemoth and you probably won't be able to fit this on your wrist. Now I'm wearing this comfortably seven inches again, or 18 centimeters circumference on my wrist, and I'm at the second notch. Or could be the first one, don't remember. But on my wrist, this thing is a chunker, again, 44 millimeters. This thing is huge on my wrist. So would I wear it? Well, maybe not every day, but when I'm doing a sporting activity, this would be a very good go-to watch for me. Plenty of space under these lugs, at least on my wrist. If you have a larger wrist, you're going to run out of space underneath these lugs. So you're got to run out of that breathability of that rubber strap, but taking a look at it, let me actually make a little bit looser to simulate a smaller wrist fitting, all right. So yeah, you'll generally get more breathability the smaller your wrist, but the larger wrist, it will be more form-fitting because, well, you're kind of stuck with the way that these lugs point outward with these straps also going outward. You have an effective lug to lug distance of over 50 millimeters. So it's going to stretch well past the wrist, if you have a wrist smaller than mine, but you know, that's not really an issue because the rubber strap keeps it on your wrist. It's not going to go anywhere. All right, so taking a look at how it, how it reads and just actually, I didn't even notice while I had this on my wrist, how incredibly light it was now that I think about it. And I think that really attests to the construction, the carbon fiber construction, also the titanium pin buckle, makes it incredibly light on the wrist. I don't even, I can't even tell that I'm wearing anything on my wrist. The ceramic, carbon fiber, titanium, rubber, it's so incredibly light. This is the lightest watch I've ever had on my wrist with all of the functionality, the look of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore. It just feels very good. And you know certainly if you want to style while you're out hiking or out swimming, this is very good to keep your weight limits down. So it just makes it so much easier to stay active. And that's something that I believe Audemars Piguet should get back into because well, they have these in steel cases, they have them in titanium cases, ceramic cases, but they don't make these in a carbon fiber cases anymore. And I'm actually kind of disappointed because I do love this carbon fiber layout. I even have a carbon fiber tripod when I do photography. And so, you know, that weight savings is a big deal. Even on the wrist, such a tiny thing like this. Well, it's a 14 millimeter thick watch. Not really all that tiny in comparison, but the weight savings is amazing and something that I wish that they had still. But this one goes for about 25, the mid $25,000 range. Again, discontinued, but we can still get these for you at Jaztime.com. Let us know what you think about this watch. Do you think the weight savings is worth it? Because I certainly think so. I would certainly pick up one of these if I made enough money to do so to just throw it down on a watch like this, but anyway, leave us a like. Be sure to comment, let us know what you think about this watch and if you'd like to purchase this watch or any other watch, visit our website at Jaztime.com. Links in the description below, and we'll see you in the next one. Take care.