Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15202BA.OO.1240BA.01 'Jumbo' Extra Thin Yellow Gold Blue Dial (2018)

Few watches are as historically significant as the Royal Oak "Jumbo," the direct descendant of the original 1972 model that Gérald Genta designed to save Audemars Piguet and, in doing so, invented the luxury steel sports watch. The 15202 preserves the founding blueprint untouched: the same slim proportions, the same integrated bracelet, the same defiant silhouette. Discontinued in 2022, it has become the most coveted reference in the modern collection, revered by purists as the truest Royal Oak of all.

Rendered entirely in 18-karat yellow gold, the slim 39mm case wears the octagonal bezel secured by eight hexagonal screws. The blue dial carries the signature Petite Tapisserie pattern, a waffled guilloché that shifts with the light beneath applied gold markers and hands. A date sits at three o'clock, and the ultra-thin automatic movement lets the watch slip beneath a cuff, uniting case and bracelet into one continuous flow of gold.