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Swatch x Audemars Piguet: This Collection Will Change How We Wear Watches
Swatch has officially unveiled its collaboration with luxury watch brand Audemars Piguet, a partnership that has been dominating Instagram for days with countless AI-generated fake images since the collaboration was confirmed on May 8th.
TL;DR
- Swatch and Audemars Piguet have released a collection of pocket watches named Royal Pop Collection.
- The collection merges the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak design with 1980s Swatch POP watches.
- These pocket watches are designed to be worn in unconventional and dynamic ways, detaching from the wrist.
- The watches are powered by a new, manually wound version of Swatch's Sistem51 movement with a 90-hour power reserve.
- Available in Lépine and Savonnette styles, the pocket watches will be sold in 200 selected Swatch stores worldwide starting May 16th.
- The collection includes eight pocket watches in eight different colors, named after variations of the word 'eight'.
- Design elements include the Royal Oak's octagonal bezel and the 'Petite Tapisserie' dial pattern.