DR Octagon is The famous Marvel Comic Book character, In the watch world as far as I am concerned he is the master innovator and revolutionary watch designer Gerald Genta. He is best known for creating the design for three very important watches in the world today. Most important would be the design of The Audemars Royal Oak watch in 1972, which has become one of the most iconic and powerful watches in the world and no matter how much AP tries to diversify their product range in styling, the ones that is absolutely wanted by all collectors is some sort of royal oak variation, even though I have never really been a big fan. The shape of the watch is octagonal inspiring the design during the same time period of the Patek Phillipe Nautilus and Iwc Ingenieur which look similar in design but both are completely autonomous and maintain their brands identity. This very well machined styling has today catapulted the launch of similar watches like the relaunch of Hublot with their Big Bang which is a blatant rip-off of the AP Royal Oak which is a compliment to AP and a tragedy for Hublot because it lacks originality and substance even though watch collectors and wanna be AP fans go GA GA for it which makes me feel like puking. Anyway now Mr Genta designs for his own brand Genta Charles.
The innovation and passion still yell through his watch line. But unfortunately his watches are really garish loud and not something I could ever see myself wearing, but I will always admire no matter how good or bad that he has still stuck to his gut and makes what he thinks is a representation of himself.
pic courtesy of www.geraldgenta.com
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