Close your eyes for a moment ask yourself: What’s a sports watch? Ok, hold on to that image. Now, ask yourself again: What is a luxury sports watch? Is the image that you have now different?
Taking a leaf from motorsports, the brutish Nissan Skyline R34 is a pants-wetting ‘sportscar’; while the Aston Martin DB5 of comparable power and cult appeal is a ’luxury sportscar’ that projects a wholly different personality, one characterised by refined elegance, to say the least.
FIRST, THE OG
A luxury sports watch then, is sleeker and hardier than a dress watch, yet prettier than a tool watch. Within these admittedly crude parameters, the definitive luxury sports watch that immediately comes to mind is the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. It is after all, the OG; the one that started it all from back in 1972.