Audemars Piguet has presented the Royal Oak Joaillerie collection, bringing the recognisable geometry of its watchmaking into a new group of high jewellery creations. The launch comprises the Dream of Joux and Risoud Eclipse lines, alongside cuffs and necklaces in Frosted Gold.
The collection draws on the Royal Oak’s sculpted links and the company’s longstanding work across watchmaking and jewellery. Its designs also reference the Vallée de Joux, where Audemars Piguet has been based since 1875.
The Royal Oak as a jewellery design
The Royal Oak was created by designer Gérald Genta and launched in 1972. Its steel case, integrated bracelet and sharply defined surfaces brought a distinctive form to the sports watch, while hand-finished edges and alternating satin-brushed and polished surfaces gave the metal a varied response to light.
The new collection takes those established features as a starting point rather than reproducing a watch bracelet as jewellery. Sculpted links are adjusted in scale and proportion, allowing the designs to move between cuffs, necklaces and earrings. Audemars Piguet describes the approach as a meeting of technical precision and artistic expression.
Geometry, finish and proportion
The original Royal Oak bracelet helped establish the design’s visual identity through tapering links, studs and carefully finished surfaces. The jewellery collection reworks that vocabulary with materials and settings suited to larger, more expressive pieces. The result connects the designs to the watch without requiring them to follow its dimensions or function.
The company’s statement describes the creations as intended for varied occasions and contemporary wear. Their scale and gemstone work place them within high jewellery, while the link pattern gives them a clear relationship to the Royal Oak’s established design.
Three directions inspired by the Vallée de Joux
Dream of Joux translates the valley’s lakes, night skies and floral forms through coloured stones and gold. Its one-of-a-kind cuffs are made in 18-carat white, yellow and pink gold, with gemstones in deep blue, green, pink and warm tones. The line also includes a tie necklace and matching drop earrings.
The earrings and necklace pair pear-shaped diamonds with anodised blue titanium links set with blue sapphires. This combination places traditional precious materials alongside a contemporary metal treatment, while the cascading arrangement lends the pieces a sense of movement.
Dream of Joux and Risoud Eclipse
Risoud Eclipse takes its name from the Risoud Forest and the valley’s history of observing the night sky. Its first necklace and matching cuff use black PVD titanium links and studs. Each centres on a sugarloaf emerald surrounded by brilliant-cut diamonds, setting a concentrated area of colour against a dark finish.
The Frosted Gold series offers a different interpretation of the Royal Oak’s surfaces. Cuffs and necklaces use 18-carat white, pink and yellow gold, finished with a texture based on an ancient Florentine technique. Audemars Piguet developed the decoration with jewellery designer Carolina Bucci in 2016 for the Royal Oak’s 40th anniversary; the finish has since become one of the manufacture’s signatures.
A longer relationship between jewellery and watchmaking
Audemars Piguet’s account of its history places jewellery techniques alongside watchmaking as a source of technical development. Metalworking and gem-setting have supported work in miniaturisation and decorative finishing, as craftspeople adapted methods across different types of creation.
The company established its own jewellery workshop in the 1980s, during a period of growing interest in watches with integrated or welded bracelets. In-house production enabled it to develop gem-set timepieces and, later, high jewellery watches. The manufacture launched its Haute Joaillerie watch collection in 2013.
Building on established expertise
Later projects included the Diamond Trilogy, produced between 2015 and 2017, and the Sapphire Orbe in 2019. These pieces explored the use of gemstones and design references associated with the Vallée de Joux. The Royal Oak Joaillerie collection now extends that history beyond gem-set watches into jewellery in its own right.
Chief executive Ilaria Resta said the collection reflects the company’s continuing interest in jewellery alongside its core watchmaking activity. That focus is evident in the balance between familiar bracelet geometry and techniques such as gem-setting, coloured titanium and Frosted Gold finishing.
With its first lines, Audemars Piguet has presented several ways to reinterpret the Royal Oak’s design codes, from coloured, landscape-led compositions to the contrast of the Risoud Eclipse pieces. The collection makes the manufacture’s watchmaking heritage a foundation for jewellery, while giving materials and forms room to develop independently.