Audemars Piguet unveiled an impressive Royal Oak Offshore timepiece -Grande Complication. It’s limited to just three piece.
It is a perpetual calendar which features a split-seconds chronograph,a moon phase and a minute repeater. Indeed, not the kind of complications you need in a sports watch, especially when you consider this watch is water-resistant to 20 meters. This is caused by the slider that activates the minute repeater, positioned on the left side of the case. Nothing to worry about as I don’t think a complicated movement like the Grande Complication should be used as a sports watch anyway, as it’s just to vulnarable for shocks and bangs. Just look at the stunning beauty and complexity of the 648 parts of self-winding caliber 2885.
The sapphire dial reveals much of the intrinsic beauty of this über-complicated, über-luxurious sports watch. The dial features white counters for the day of the week, the month, date and even the week, white gold applied hour-markers and typical Royal Oak hands with luminescent coating. The chronograph registers are ‘inside’ these white counters and so is the leap year indication. The upper pusher activates split-second chronograph by means of a column wheel construction. This Audemars Piguet chronograph is a split-seconds chronograph because it has two seconds hands, so it can measure two time intervals.
The 44 mm large titanium case with ceramic bezel, crown and push pieces, and sapphire crystal on both sides, look sporty, at least from a distance. Due to the low weight-materials like titanium and ceramic and the rubber strap it wears comfortable as well. So yes it does have the looks and the comfortable wrist-pleasure of a sports watch, yet the inner works of a true complicated timepiece. 
