The Audemars Piguet x Swatch Collaboration Is Here for Real

Swatch has officially revealed its collaboration with luxury ticker marque Audemars Piguet, 1 that has been breaking Instagram with countless AI-generated fake images since the linkup was confirmed connected May 8. As suspected, it's not a wristwatch, but a bid of pouch watches based connected AP's classical Royal Oak design.

The quality is simply a astonishment arsenic it comes up of May 16, the day Swatch initially teased successful its societal media posts. The colorful pouch watches are called the Royal Pop Collection, and are billed by the marque arsenic “a groundbreaking national of Audemars Piguet's iconic Royal Oak and Swatch's POP watches from the 1980s.”

The Royal Pop watches wed plan hallmarks from Audemars Piguet’s iconic Royal Oak collection, launched successful 1972, arsenic good arsenic the Swatch POP watches of the 1980s. In a statement, Swatch said that “this postulation volition alteration the mode we deterioration watches. The watches successful the AP x Swatch collaboration interruption escaped from the wrist ... allowing you to deterioration the ticker successful unexpected, playful, and dynamic ways.”

It was wide guessed that the automatic question powering the Royal Pops would beryllium Swatch's ain Sistem51, which is wholly assembled connected an automated accumulation enactment and requires nary quality handling. However, Swatch says it made a brand-new mentation of the question for this collab that retools Sistem51 arsenic a hand-wound caliber with an awesome 90-hour powerfulness reserve.

The pouch watches volition beryllium disposable starting May 16 successful 1 of 2 styles, Lépine (with the crown astatine 12 o’clock) and Savonnette (the crown astatine 3 pm), astatine 200 prime Swatch stores worldwide, restricted to 1 portion per idiosyncratic per store per day. The Lépine-style retails for $400, and the Savonnette-style retails for $420.

The one-off postulation consists of 8 pouch watches successful 8 antithetic colors and are named aft variations of the connection “eight” successful French, English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, German, and Romansh (a connection successful Switzerland): white, Huit Blanc; pink, Otto Rosso; green, Green Eight; lime green/blue, Blaue Acht; navy/orange, Orenji Hachi; blue/light blue, Lan Ba; black/white, Ocho Negro; pink/yellow/teal, Otg Roz.