皇家橡树的八角形表壳设计灵感来源于中国的八卦？

请教这个说法是否有根据？

[ 本帖最后由 小王子 于 2008-5-26 06:15 编辑 ]

似乎有点扯，哈哈。。。。。。。。。

Most folk know that the Royal Oak, the original Jumbo, was designed primarily by one Gerald Charles Genta, who did give birth to several iconic watch designs in the 70s and 80s. His watch designs since then, to me, don't seem to be able to match up to some of the designs in his earlier years.

The success of the Royal Oak is however not attributed to one man. It has to do with the watch house, the people running it who gave the green light. It has also to do with the marketing machinery behind it. Audemars Piguet than with Georges Golay at the helm, saw the submitted design and saw fit to give it a try albeit in a limited number, giving birth to the luxury steel sports watch in 1972. It was christened the Royal Oak. The marketing tag lines then was that it was steel on the outside and gold on the inside, and another was that it was a steel watch that costs more than a gold watch.

Well you may know all this already, but I want to focus your attention now to the possible design influence of the octagon and eventual "story" they chose to market this beautiful watch with. It is known to some that GG was on a trip in Asia at the time, in places where the locals were predominantly Buddhist, and was probably inspired by Buddhist symbols in coming up with the Royal Oak design.

This is a just a wild guess on my part, but could he have been inspired by this you think?
This is actually hanging at my house right now as part of the Chinese New Year decorations which are customary. It is the ‘Pa Kua’symbol that is commonly used in geomancy or "feng shui" and is a relatively common Buddhist symbol. The pic above has the Chinese character "fu" within, meaning prosperity. The circle in the centre at times has the yin yang symbol like the one below.
Hmm I wonder how well the Audemars Piguet ‘Pa Kua‘ would have sold if they hadn't linked it to the Royal Oak :) spoken tongue in cheek of course.


Well whatever his original influence was when submitting the design concept to AP, they took it and developed a story linking the design of it to some part of the HMS Royal Oak battleship, a part which till now I haven't seen any picture of and am beginning to wonder if it really exists, and the ship having got its regal "Royal Oak" name from the tree that King Charles hid in when eluding the Roundheads in 1651.

The wonders of marketing eh. Its really got an interesting and nice story behind all of it other than being a fantastic looking watch.



For those not in the know, the Royal Oak Offshore in its first form was designed by Emmanuel Gueit, launched in 1993. Select models and most of the current range have also been designed by Octavio Garcia and the current AP design team since. Just for your information, GG has commented that he isn't too crazy about some of the Offshore designs, but its not a consideration for me as I personally like a fair bunch of them.

There have been many different Royal Oaks and Offshores through the years, and to end off, I would like to say that AP is fully deserving of their success having taken an extremely well designed watch, Genta's original Jumbo, and adding to it a great name and story, and evolving it through time. It is truly a remarkable line of watches from an amazing watch house.

Before the 15 days of the Chinese New Year are over, I would also like to wish my Chinese readers out there, Gong Xi Fa Cai, Xin Nian Kwai Le, Wan Se Ru Yu. Blessings for the year ahead.

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（转自：http://timetapestry.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html）

[ 本帖最后由 小王子 于 2008-5-26 06:21 编辑 ]

上文中标题不应该是佛教影响皇橡的设计，八卦应该来源于道教。

怎么我国的钟表设计师就没有这灵感呢？？
难道不如外国人观察细微？

从前有一个国王，再一次战役中战败了，为了躲避敌人，他藏到了一个树洞里逃过一劫，后来他有重振旗鼓，战胜了敌人。为了纪念这棵树，他把这棵树命名为皇家橡树，寓意救命树。给他的舰队起名为皇家橡树舰队，有旗舰的意思。
爱彼表给他起名就是取名旗舰意思，设计灵感就来自舰船的八角形窗户

哦，原来是这样。。。。。。。。

这个说法相当八卦，呵呵。

1651年9月16日 查里2世成为英格兰，苏格兰与爱尔兰的国王之前，当时遭受克伦威尔的军队追赶，因为在一个橡树的枝干里躲了一夜，幸运的躲过了一劫。后来查里2世重振雄风，东山再起，从新回到王位，他很感激这棵树，从此把这次视为国树，命名为《皇家橡树》 在英格兰来说，橡树就是保护，安全，力量的象征。
为纪念此事英国海军在1769年~1914年之间，将旗下四艘军舰命名为H.M.S Royal oak 其中一艘的几个特征就是传神是橡木制成的 并以钢板强化 跑空和铉窗成8交型

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这个想法很新颖嘛！！

又长知识了,原来名字的来源是这么回事啊