May or may not lead to an interesting debate - Is the AP Royal Oak a sports watch? Why or why not?

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Yes. I’m a chief, you can trust me 🧐

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I agree with the chief

It’s a sports watch in the same way a polo shirt is athletic wear

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What is a sports watch? Does anyone actually wear sports watches to seriously do sports?

No one wears a Reverso to play polo anymore. No one depends on a dive watch as their primary timekeeping tool during a dive anymore. No one uses chronographs to time air races or thruster burns or racing laps anymore. We have better tools now. So today’s diver’s watches and pilot’s watches are really just watches styled to make us feel a connection to those professions. They’re no longer intended to be serious tools for those professionals to use.

By that logic, anything that feels sporty is a sports watch. The Royal Oak created and defined the luxury sports watch segment. Of course it’s a sports watch.

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Speak for yourself on the Reverso. I only wear mine while poloing...

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Realistically is any watch really a sports watch these days?

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I would call it more of a sporty casual watch than a Sport watch. Simplest reason for that is that if you go on AP’s website, there’s no mention of anything “sports” at all. Look at Rolex or Tudor or Omega and their sport watch pages are littered with divers, sailors, race car drivers, etc.

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Are we talking the RO only or adding the ROO?

RO only - offshore excluded

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It’s a sports watch in the sense that a modern jeep is an off road vehicle. You can take it off-road, but it’s really meant to stay on the road these days. From what I’ve read they tend to be fragile, and do not have great water resistance I think it’s ~50m?

Yeah, it’s 50M for the regular one. The chronographs might be less (too lazy to check)

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