I introduced a good homage of Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch with skeleton dial on my blog before, it looks really good, the watch is made by Geya, which is a watch company located in Shenzhen of China, today, I will review another AP Royal Oak homage watch from Geya, after reading this article and checking the pictures, I think you and me will have the same opinion, that is Geya is making the best AP Royal Oak homage. I have seen a lot of homage watches made in China, but none of them have the same good finish as this Geya watch.
Does this watch look familiar to you? It looks like the Royal Oak 15500. When I received the watch, the package is very heavy, the watch is in a high-end black box that looks much better than the boxes of other watches I reviewed here, even better than the box offered by Sea-gull watch. Actually Geya sent several gifts along with the watch, the box has a clever design for the placing of the Geya manual book.
The case has a very close shape to AP Royal Oak but has a bigger size, I measured, the case diameter is more than 43mm, not including the crown, it it bigger than than AP 15500, the case thickness is about 11.7mm. The octagonal bezel has vertical brushing finish with polished screws, each screw on the bezel is fixed in right position, with slot being aligned perfectly, for example, please check the screws at 5 o’clock and 11 o’clock, you will know what I mean. The crown is screw-in and has a drawing “G” logo on the brushed face. The entire watch has a weight of 166 grams.
About the checkered dial, besides this black, Geya also offers white and blue, they are all well made. Every tridimensional hour marker has stainless steel frame and has white luminous material filled in the center. The markers are finished perfectly without metal burr on the edge. The second hand on the center is sweeping the dial very smoothly, the date window is also a close imitation of the one on AP 15500. The brand name GEYA at 12 o’clock has a glossy finish. All things on the dial look good, but the dial is lack of some reflective effect that could be even found on some super clones of AP.
The stainless steel bracelet has the same construction as the AP 15500, the bracelet naturally extends from the case that is being connected through two pins, the bracelet is naturally narrowed down from top to the end, it seems to have merged into a whole piece with the case. On the opening of the clasp, there is G logo and brand name “GEYA” in drawing finish. The entire bracelet has vertical brushing finish that is in line with the finish on the case.
The watch is equipped with an automatic movement, you can totally see the machine through the crystal back. I do not know where exactly the movement is made, maybe from Japan, this movement has a great power reserve, after being delivered, I put the package in still for about 36 hours, the watch still worked accurate after I opened the box. Besides the brand name engraving on the auto rotor, there is no other decoration on the movement plate.
Conclusion:
This is the most beautiful Audemars Piguet Royal Oak homage watch I have ever seen, it has superb case finish and bracelet finish, the movement is accurate and also has considerable power reserve as well as few issues. Considering its price that is less than $150, I think there are no other AP homages that can compete with this one at the same price lever. It is highly recommended.