Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore 'End of Days' Aviation And how could you miss

And how could you miss it

The lid is inlaid with leather pads to protect the watch crystals

and be able to wear and enjoy that design without the headache or fuss of a near-priceless original

Its luminous mother-of-pearl dial is anchored by a graceful subdial at 12 o'clock

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore 'End of Days' Aviation And how could you missAudemars Piguet, the vaunted manufacture from Les Brassus, wasn't doing so well at the end of the 1960s. Their horological prowess aside, times were changing, customer tastes were evolving, and AP was stuck firmly in a very traditional past. Fortunately for us, their executives recognized this, and bet it all on the launch of an avant garde timepiece the likes of which the world had never seen. Utilizing the talents of a designer named Gerald Genta,