Audemars Piguet's New Royal Oak Frosted Gold Carolina Bucci Limited Edition: Made in the ...

Audemars Piguet's iconic Royal Oak Frosted Gold is now available in yellow gold with a mirrored dial just in time for the holiday season The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Frosted Gold was a big hit when it was launched in 2016 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Royal Oak for women Carolina Bucci, fourth-generation fine jeweller, designed the first Royal Oak Frosted Gold in response to a challenge from Audemars Piguet, using her signature Florentine finish on the watch's case and bracelet.

The Royal Oak Frosted Gold comes back, this time in yellow gold - Carolina Bucci's favourite version of this precious metal - in a limited edition of 300 pieces worldwide Carolina Bucci replaced the trademark "Tapisserie" Royal Oak dial with an attention-grabbing, shiny, silver-toned mirror - a real technical challenge As Carolina Bucci explains, "With the first Frosted Gold design, I took the perfection of the Royal Oak case and bracelet and 'roughed them up' a little, juxtaposing the perfectly imperfect Florentine finish with Swiss watchmaking precision.

Now I'm doing the opposite, taking the textured surface of the 'Tapisserie' dial and flattening it out into a perfectly smooth mirror The motive for both is to create something interesting and unpredictable It's a fresh take on an icon made in the image of a contemporary woman" Matching the mirrored dial is a mirrored box bearing a Frosted Gold AP insignia equally designed by Carolina Bucci, who believes in displaying luxury watch packaging, rather than hiding them in the back of the closet. Source