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Cactus Jack gives the Royal Oak a brown ceramic register

The 2023 collaboration translated a music-associated graphic identity into a perpetual-calendar watch.

Cactus Jack gives the Royal Oak a brown ceramic register
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A collaboration becomes legible when it changes more than a signature on the dial. Audemars Piguet’s 2023 Cactus Jack Royal Oak connected the familiar case with brown ceramic and graphic references associated with Travis Scott’s brand.

WAYFARER’s December report described a 41-millimetre Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Openworked. A sapphire dial exposed the movement beneath, keeping the mechanical structure visible within a watch whose colour supplied its most immediate difference.

The report identified Calibre 5135 and described luminescent details with blue or green effects. Cactus Jack references extended to elements including the moon-phase display, bringing the collaboration into the watch’s visual language rather than confining it to its name.

The article placed the partnership alongside earlier Audemars Piguet associations with Jay-Z and LeBron James. That context explains the house’s interest in cultural figures, while the brown ceramic gives this particular edition a more specific material identity.

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