Join HSNY in person on Monday, June 6, 2022 for a lecture on The Genesis of the Royal Oak: From Iconoclast to Icon, by Sébastian Vivas, Heritage & Museum Director at Audemars Piguet (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

HSNY’s June 2022 lecture will take place in person at the General Society Library. The lecture will also be livestreamed.

Doors open at 6PM ET, lecture and Zoom livestream to begin at 7PM ET.

In 2022, the Royal Oak watch is celebrating its 50th anniversary. In preparation for this event, the Audemars Piguet Heritage team spent a few years in the brand’s archives to better understand the history of this iconoclastic timepiece, which became a cultural icon within and beyond watchmaking.

This lecture will share the results of this ongoing research, while shedding light on the major actors involved in the watch’s creation, among whom are Italian agent Carlo de Marchi, designer Gérald Genta, and former CEO of Audemars Piguet Georges Golay. It will also pay tribute to the many people and companies that contributed to the timepiece’s challenging development: case-maker Favre-Perret, movement-maker LeCoultre & Cie, bracelet-maker Gay Frères and famous dial-maker Stern Frères.

At the June 6, 2022, lecture of the Horological Society of New York, Sébastian Vivas, Heritage & Museum Director at Audemars Piguet, will distinguish myth from reality in terms of the watch’s creation process as well as its reception, commercial success and extraordinary destiny.

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