During a 2024 edition that will long be remembered for the launch of the CODE 11.59 collection and for the sometimes harsh comments of collectors, enthusiasts and sector journalists, Audemars Piguet Replica declared that in the near future the annual volumes produced by the brand will not increase, but rather the product mix will change. We will therefore not see the new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Flat White Gold with Rose Gold Dial that often.

The current collections will therefore be subject to a progressive decrease in volumes to favor the entry of the new CODE 11.59 collection and this means that the Royal Oak collection will also necessarily see a decrease in the number of references and the brand will probably reduce its dependence on this collection, encouraging the growth of others.

In the official SIHH 2024 press release there was no mention of a new Royal Oak Jumbo, yet Audemars Piguet presented a new version of its coveted reference 15202, the Royal Oak Jumbo Extra–Flat.
Endowed with innate class, with a deliberately and provocatively ’70s personality, the Royal Oak Jumbo Extra–Flat is the Royal Oak par excellence, the equivalent of Patek Philippe’s 5711 (its direct competitor), and was already present in seven versions in the current collection.

If the version presented last year, made of titanium with a platinum bezel and smoky blue dial, reached incredible levels of desirability and fueled useless waiting lists (it was a limited series), the 2024 version with a white gold case and dial rose gold color doubled the success, as expected.

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo Extra–Flat was launched with a new rose gold-colored dial and Petite Tapisserie motif.
This dial color does not represent an absolute novelty in the history of the Royal Oak, because Audemars Piguet had already launched a similar version on the occasion of the celebrations for the twenty years of the collection (1992), although the differences between the two watches are understandably many: the Audemars Piguet written on the dial has a different font and the AP logo is positioned, on the latest version of the Jumbo, at the bottom, near the gold index applied at six o’clock.

And, another notable difference, the date window is now the same color as the dial, although the font is questionable in style and size and breaks, as far as I’m concerned, the balance of an otherwise perfect dial, without that window.
Some have defined it as a salmon-colored dial, but this is not the case: if you look closely it has a shade that tends towards champagne color rather than the salmon color that is so widespread today.

The case is in white gold and the combination with the dial makes it the most fascinating combination ever presented today, in my opinion. I repeat, if they had done without the date window, it would have been perfect from my point of view.
On the wrist it confirms the advantages of the Jumbo version which make the 41mm version seem even unbalanced: it is incredibly comfortable, with a rare mix of class and sportiness that brings it closer to the original versions of the Royal Oak Jumbo, and to its strong pedigree as a sports watch seventies.