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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Grande Complication Watch Hands-On
“Welcome back to an original best watches feature, My First Grail Watch.” Well, no, that’s not entirely right. This is not another chapter in our Grail Watch series of articles, but then again, it could be. Late last year, upon visiting the highly exclusive London?watch retailer Marcus in a quest to interview them for our Where To Buy Watches series, I had the extremely rare opportunity to encounter a highly elusive piece that has for long been reigning at the top of my “watch bucket list”: the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore?Grande Complication.Grand and Complicated it is, in every sense of these words. The massive movement (Caliber 2885) is 31.60 millimeter wide and 8.55 millimeter thick, and it needs all that space to?comprise?a total of 648?parts. As any grand complication,?beyond indications for the?hours, minutes, and seconds, it offers a chiming?mechanism (a minute repeater with two gongs, in this instance), an astronomical mechanism (here, a per
Watch Review: Baltic Aquascaphe Dual-Crown
It's hard to believe it’s been only four short years since Baltic, proudly headquartered in Paris, France, emerged resplendent onto the microbrand scene with its manually wound Bicompax and automatic, three-hand HMS 001. Both quickly left an impression on the enthusiast community thanks to their clean, vintage-inspired designs and approachable price points. In an equally impressive follow-up, Baltic then released the Aquascaphe diver's watch in 2018, cementing the brand as a major player in the busy and turbulent microbrand space.Since then, Baltic's collection has been updated several times with new versions of the aforementioned Bicompax and HMS, more Miyota-driven Aquascaphe models, as well as a Swiss Soprod C125 caliber-powered Aquascaphe GMT, a watch that left me thoroughly impressed when I reviewed it earlier this year. Still, the core of the brand's designs lived within those three formats: a simple three-hander, dual-register chronograph, and a skin-diver-esque diver - th