Once Audemars Piguet obtained universal acclaim for its Royal Oak sports watch model it was the payoff of a daring bet - a luxury steel watch in the 1970s - that in fact took years to materialise. The company however did not sit on its laurels. Instead of passively (and safely) capitalising on the model they used it as the base of an even more experimental evolution in the 1990s: the Offshore. More modern larger and more aggressive than its progenitor the Offshore was also subject to extreme experimentation both in terms of design and in terms of watchmaking as well (with some extremely complex prototype and concept models known).

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