Strap for Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon White Gold / Baguette Sapphire

No. The bracelet is integrated into the white gold case: there are no conventional lugs to attach an off-the-shelf strap. The attachment is part of the watch's own architecture. The only viable path is to build a strap to measure, directly on the watch itself.

I work exclusively by appointment at <a href="/pages/casati-booking">Casati Milano</a>, at Via XX Settembre 15 in Milan. You bring the watch to the atelier: I take measurements from the original case, study every curve of the integrated attachment, and build the strap millimetre by millimetre. There are no pre-made templates — every piece is made from scratch for that specific watch.

For a Royal Oak Concept, with all the technical and architectural tension it carries, I prefer Mississippi alligator with symmetrical scales. It holds the character of the watch without softening its personality. The glossy finish on the alligator works well with the white gold, without tipping into pure formal territory.

A properly built strap, using top-grade leather and hand-stitched linings, typically lasts between five and eight years of continuous use. It depends greatly on how you wear it: perspiration is leather's main enemy. I recommend rotating between two straps and letting each one dry away from heat sources. Over time the leather develops its own patina — that is not wear, that is memory.

It was born in 2002 as a declaration of method. Audemars Piguet wanted to show how far watchmaking engineering could go when aesthetic constraints were removed. The open movement is not a decorative choice: it is the watch's very structure made readable. I have seen many open-worked dials, but few built with this level of consistency between form and mechanics.