Royal Oak Bezel Screws - Functional?
As an Engineer, one thing that continues to bother me is the bezel screws that are part of Royal Oak. Just read the Hodinkee article about the new blue ceramic Royal Oak and I can't take my eyes off the flush mounted slotted screws around the bezel that sit in hexagonal holes. From my perspective these screws cannot be functional - or what am I missing? Just saw a photo with the bezel removed and there are screw holes under the bezel. Trying to remove these screws would have to destroy the bezel and screw holes. Given the expense of these watches the screws have to be functional and I am just not getting it. Having spent several years as an apprentice machinist this has always been something that bothered me - so enlighten me and tell me how these screws work! Thanks!
Real answer: I believe they inset into the bezel and are tightened from the post side.
Better answer: Like the elastic on zebra-print Zubaz pants, the screws on a Royal Oak work by sealing in the fresh.
I suspect they are Chicago bolts?
The screws are bolts that go right through the watch and bolt on the case back. The slotted screw slots are merely an affectation towards fake industrial design.
The bolts are supposed to provide the case water resistance. Rated at 60m, this is very close to what Panerai achieves with a snap-on case back on de-contented Due line. The bolts themselves are merely affectations towards fake capability.
The movement is quite fragile, easily damaged and very expensive to repair. The whole watch is an affectation towards being a sports watch without any sporting capability.
The design is intended to look nautical in an industrial design style yet gives more of an agricultural, farm implement aesthetic than a luxury watch. There is nothing elegant enough about this watch that having exposed fake slotted screw heads on the bezel cannot destroy. The luxury sport tag applied to this watch is an affectation towards a total absence of elegance or capability masquerading as luxury.
This is a fake watch for fake people. This luxury sports watch is neither luxury nor sport. It’s only redeeming quality is that it’s expensive. That’s all you need to know about the APRO.
Enough said! Never thought. of expensive as being a quality
Chicago bolts??
If they do in fact tighten from the bolt side, the slots are for decoration - I guess that is what Davemcc is saying! No wonder I do not like this watch.
The screws are bolts that go right through the watch and bolt on the case back. The slotted screw slots are merely an affectation towards fake industrial design.
The bolts are supposed to provide the case water resistance. Rated at 60m, this is very close to what Panerai achieves with a snap-on case back on de-contented Due line. The bolts themselves are merely affectations towards fake capability.
The movement is quite fragile, easily damaged and very expensive to repair. The whole watch is an affectation towards being a sports watch without any sporting capability.
The design is intended to look nautical in an industrial design style yet gives more of an agricultural, farm implement aesthetic than a luxury watch. There is nothing elegant enough about this watch that having exposed fake slotted screw heads on the bezel cannot destroy. The luxury sport tag applied to this watch is an affectation towards a total absence of elegance or capability masquerading as luxury.
This is a fake watch for fake people. This luxury sports watch is neither luxury nor sport. It’s only redeeming quality is that it’s expensive. That’s all you need to know about the APRO.
How do you really feel?
The screws are bolts that go right through the watch and bolt on the case back. The slotted screw slots are merely an affectation towards fake industrial design.
The bolts are supposed to provide the case water resistance. Rated at 60m, this is very close to what Panerai achieves with a snap-on case back on de-contented Due line. The bolts themselves are merely affectations towards fake capability.
The movement is quite fragile, easily damaged and very expensive to repair. The whole watch is an affectation towards being a sports watch without any sporting capability.
The design is intended to look nautical in an industrial design style yet gives more of an agricultural, farm implement aesthetic than a luxury watch. There is nothing elegant enough about this watch that having exposed fake slotted screw heads on the bezel cannot destroy. The luxury sport tag applied to this watch is an affectation towards a total absence of elegance or capability masquerading as luxury.
This is a fake watch for fake people. This luxury sports watch is neither luxury nor sport. It’s only redeeming quality is that it’s expensive. That’s all you need to know about the APRO.
I don't get it either. I thought I was the only one.
What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Aristotle introduced the idea of defining things not by what they are, but by what they achieve. In this sense, the hexagonal bolts are very real in that they ultimately achieve the end for which they were designed. The ultimate end of these non-functional screw heads is, along with the rest of the watch of course, to trick shallow people into giving you preferential treatment by passively demonstrating wealth. Thus can a watch be defined not as a timepiece but rather, like all things that we choose to wear, a means of manipulating the behavior of others as regards ourselves.