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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT Watch Hands-On
Even among all the Royal Oaks and haute horology presented by Audemars Piguet for SIHH 2018, one could hardly overlook something as strange, bold, and exotic as the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT. This is not one that grabs headlines for groundbreaking technology or radically new design for the brand in 2018, but it does introduce Audemars Piguet’s first flying tourbillon as well as some design updates, and it is the latest in a collection that is inherently polarizing and interesting.All hands-on images by David BredanThe Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept has been around since 2002 and has been the canvas for some of the brand’s most avant-garde, futuristic-looking haute horology creations. It seemed to take the idea of the Royal Oak Offshore to an even more “xtreme” and “xperimental” place. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon GMT came out in 2011 and introduced the basic form that we see continued here. More ba
What's Next For The Watch Industry? Look To Oil & Gas
Written by guest contributor David Vaucher who is a watch enthusiast and Director in the Energy Practice at Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) in Houston, Texas.The Swiss watch industry just recently entered its deepest slump in years. This is certainly preoccupying the minds of executives of companies both large and small, and with equal certainty I can say that change – for both the industry and you the consumer-is coming. Though it’s?difficult to say is exactly what that change will be, I'm going to attempt exactly that by looking at another business that has been struggling with its own bust for several years now: the oil and gas industry.?My working hours are occupied as a management consultant to energy companies, and?though it may not immediately seem so,?the two industries do share some history.