Assouline Royal Oak: From Iconoclast to Icon Book

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Royal Oak
From Iconlast to Icon

English edition

Written by Bill Prince, a cultural journalist and former deputy editor-in-chief of the UK's gq magazine, the book offers a journey through six decades of innovation in art, architecture, fashion, music and cultural history that parallels the evolution of the watch in ways you can't imagine.

He goes into detail about the history of the watch, reveals new archives, and provides exclusive testimony from friends of the house.

With its handmade stainless steel case that housed the smallest mechanical automatic movement of the time, it elegantly twisted the codes of a sports watch.

The book describes the rise of this iconoclastic watch to an icon among the most sought-after models of haute horlogerie.