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If you're looking for one of these legacy and classic looks with the Audemars Piguet Royal Oaks. All right. So, we'll be going over the dial, the case, the bezel, the crown, movement, and the strap here. And I'll be giving you my thoughts on these throughout the video. So the case, first of all, is 39 millimeters in diameter from finger to thumb. And is only, I believe, 9.4. Yeah, only 9.4 millimeters in thickness. So, this makes for an excellent, excellent dress watch. And with the overall presentation, with the pink gold surrounding a white dial. With a very tastefully, not too large, not too small, but very noticeable and very to the point and standard really, for Audemars Piguet Royal Oak's bezel. It gives an excellent presentation as a dress watch. There's not too much going on here. There are no chrono pushers or anything that will basically, clutter up the presentation here. It's all very easy to read. It's all right there on the dial. So once again, all 18 karat pink gold brushed on the top. Polished along the sides of this bezel here. Very, very high polish. With very high polish little vertices along here with the brush edges being larger of the flanks here. And with very, very light, smooth polish on these corners that really give these sections a very light, glowing look depending on the light. Depending on the angle at which you view them. So, this is a highly recognizable watch just from how the case is made alone. All of that brush finishing to give it that diffuse lighting. And then, those polished edges for really, really high shine. And of course, the hexagonal screws all arranged concentrically. If you notice the way that the little threads just sort of follow that circle all the way around the bezel. Very nice. Very tasteful presentation. And now, as we look in closer to the dial there. The inner bezel also is an extremely high polish. Reflecting essentially, what is inside the dial or outside of it, depending on the angle of view. And all right. So, all encircling this white Grande Tapisserie pattern. So, essentially very, very finely raised squares with, I don't even know if the camera can pick it up but they're very, very tiny concentric circles. And so, depending on the way that you view it within the light. You can actually see that there's like a very subtle, yet very, very interesting sunray patterning coming out from the center and going out. And that's all thanks to the tiny, tiny concentric circles that sort of echo out from the center. All right. Very, very tiny index marks for the seconds and minutes there. And with the larger index marks denoting the hours, all in 18 karat pink gold as well. There's also applied luminescence on all of them. With the elongated AP letter form logo at the very top for the 12 o'clock position. The newer updated version has just two index marks with a smaller, more compact Audemars Piguet logo in about the same part of the dial. Between the 10 and two o'clock positions. As again, this does say automatic. Meaning that it is an automatic functioning watch when it comes to the movement. But more on that later. How all of this works. Why it's automatic. You know you can effectively just wind it. Just unscrew the crown to the first position, and you can wind it and it's good to go. No batteries necessary. All right. And you can pull out to the second position to adjust the time. It's about a quarter turn to advance the day forward. So once you get to say, the 28th or 29th of February for example. And you need to advance it to March 1st. You can do so very quickly. Like so. And very easy. All right. And since that minute hand's kind of hiding that date aperture window at the three o'clock, we can pull out to the final position to hack the seconds hand there. And you can move the metal hand as needed. All right. Be sure to press the crown all the way in. Screw it tightly against the case. For just 50 meters of water resistance below sea level, so don't take this for deep dives because ultimately, this is dress watch. It's not really for sports. It's not. There's not a whole lot that you can really put this through. Definitely don't throw it into a geyser or anything. But for surface swimming, washing your hands, taking a shower, no issue there. All right. And while we're there, note that this is the older style model. The 15300. The 15400 actually has a tiny, tiny index marker for the three o'clock position. Which actually kind of goes, could go unnoticed. Because on this model, did not have it because the date aperture is actually deemed to be large enough to actually take the spot of that three o'clock index marker. Balanced against that nine o'clock index marker. And so, I think it's a very tasteful presentation. I don't see much wrong with it. And given the size, both in the height and the width, it fits in that spot very nicely. And you don't need to actually move it down anywhere else because most people will see the date at the three o'clock position. On say, like the offshore models where you have multiple dials, they had to move it down to the 4:30 position. But you know that's, you don't have extra dials on here. That's all you really need to put. And so, I believe, in this model, the 15300, it's a very good spot. All right. And so, what makes all of this work? The center seconds, the minute hand, the hour hand. Oh and by the way, it is all illuminated in the dark. So I can turn out the lights here, and you can see that you can tell the time even in low light situations. Again, the AP logo is only in a yellow or 18 karat pink gold. So, it doesn't light up at night, but you can tell very easily that the only spot that's not illuminated is the 12 o'clock. Well, and maybe the three o'clock as well because there's just the date aperture there. All right. And then, turning the lights back on. Making all of this work. How does it all work? Well, it's all in the movement. It's the caliber 3120. And even in the newer model I believe, has the same exact model caliber, the 3120. It's the diameter of 26.6 millimeters or 11 3/4 lines. A mono block in eight and 22 karat gold. Beating on a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour or three hertz. A screwed mobile stud for the balance spring that also has a variable inertia blocks with 40 joules. Totaling to 280 parts. Allowing up to 60 hours of power reserve. And as you can see, that golden plate there moving back and forth. That's the bidirectional winding oscillator. And so, that allows you to effectively wind the watch with your natural wrist movements. Allowing the watch to basically wind with the forward and backward, or backward and forward movements. Depending on which way you're looking at it to keep the watch wound. So again, the automatic movement means that you don't really need to wind it all that much. It just automatically keeps working. All right. So, that brings us down to the framing of this watch case here. And that is a strap held together by two intermediate links on each side. So, four total. With a brown alligator leather strap. Now, very tasteful in presentation. These scales are rather large, so you don't have like noticeable separations there breaking it up. It's a very good texture with that nice tapering. As you would come to expect from Audemars Piguet or any luxury watch. Down to the Audemars Piguet 18 karat gold buckle as well. Now, the way that this one works is that it's actually kind of a buckle and a folding clasp. So, if you open it up, you have the AP logo within the clasp. Let's zoom out a bit here. All right. So, you have the AP logo within the clasp. With the Audemars Piguet word form logo right there. Written out in full serif font. Excellent presentation. A bit dated but you know that is how their logo is. All right. And while we're here, let's see, I can also demonstrate how this actually gets size. Now, the great thing about straps is that you can size them based on your wrist changes throughout the day. So, generally you'll probably move between your one or, between two specific little notches there. But it's not really as easy as you'd think. Because once you separate it from the buckle there, there's a little headpiece in there that sort of keeps it locked in. So, there's really no danger of having this effectively fall off of your wrist from here. So, I'm going to size this. I'm gonna take a stab at it literally. To what I believe my wrist size is. Will say the third notch. Okay and I will try it on. Now, I had some issues with this earlier thinking that I can probably just, well, let me zoom out here. I can probably just close it and well, wait a second. That is not how you put on this clasp. Because remember, this clasp went over like that. So, to put on this sort of clasp, you have to put the bottom side first. The side that is curved in conjunction with the curvature of your wrist. You place that first. And then you just fold it over and close it. Nice and easy. All right. So once you know how to do it, it's super simple. All right. So, and looking at it on the wrist now. There is a lot of case here. A lot of case to bracelet, or a lot of case to strap ratio. But maybe some people actually like that. It's only 39 millimeters, but it wears like a 41, 42 even. You know it kind of feels like a 44 to me. And a lot of that is due to how these straps flare out at these intermediate links right here. Because it gives the wrist room to breathe. So, you can actually wear this for quite a long time and probably not even notice, or even remember that you're wearing it because it has such a small form factor. Very thin. 9.4 millimeters in thickness that will fit literally, under any sort of long sleeve suit cuff. I have a jacket on. But if it didn't fit under my jacket, well, you know there's something wrong. And looking at it overall, with that high contrast white dial with the yellow or the 18 karat pink gold markers, hands. What's not to love about this? All right. So, enough of what I think. What do you think about this watch? All right. I'd love to know what you think down in the comments below. Be sure to leave a like as it really helps our channel out. Be sure to subscribe, if you haven't already. Hit that bell notification, so you can be notified when we go live with another video. And as always, if you want to buy this or any other watch. Even the discontinued ones. 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