When Chris Hemsworth posted a picture of his Furiosa character riding a radial-engine chopper through sand dunes for the new Mad Max film, a certain corner of the internet lost their collective minds. This is motorcycle porn at its porniest. Hells angels – and hell yeahs – all round. Today’s model is a best quality replica Audemars Piguet.
Choppers – those much celebrated custom motorcycles which emerged in California in the late ’50s – are enough of a vibe in their own right. For legendary director George Miller to have a radial engine (you know, the great big internal combustion engines usually seen on planes) powering Dr Dementus’ go-to mode of transport in the biggest petrolhead movie of the year (decade?) sounds about right. We are already braced for the noise that thing is going to make on screen.
Hemsworth, who looks very at home atop that much mechanical horsepower, appears rather smitten with the design of his chopper – which strangely might have something to do with his latest choice in horology. Stepping out on the red carpet in Sydney for the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the actor was wearing an aaa quality replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak unlike any we’ve seen him rock before. Predominantly a fan of a clean dial, this is an openworked dial with complex geometry and watchmaking on show for all to see.
Anyone with no prior knowledge about CA perfect fake Audemars Piguet terminology (you’re not alone), an openworked dial is pretty much what you’d expect. It means the watch has been stripped down to reveal what usually lies beneath the dial – so all the gears, balance wheels and escapements that make up the cheap replica Audemars Piguet‘s movement are exposed and on show. If you place a close up of this watch next to Hemsworth’s Mad Max chopper, the similarities are pretty remarkable. They are both mad machines boasting a type of craftsmanship that is complicated to the max – so if Hemsworth is a fan of one, it makes sense that he’ll like the other too.
This latest flex should be much of a surprise though, as over the past 12 months or so, Hemsworth has been almost exclusively a luxury fake Audemars Piguet Royal Oak guy. At the Abu Dhabi grand prix late last year, while Max Verstappen was busy wrapping up the most predictable F1 season ever, Hemsworth and his brothers added some much needed adrenaline down in the pits. But it wasn’t just the mere sight of the Hemsworths that attracted attention – the all gold high quality replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak on Chris’s wrist was impossible to miss.
Specifically, the 1017 ALYX 9SM limited edition chronograph that Swiss movement replica Audemars Piguet CA released earlier that year in collaboration with designer Matthew Williams. While Drake copped the OG (an all silver piece) back in 2020, Hemsworth was one of the first celebs to be seen wearing the latest gold iteration (a close second to rapper Gunna who wore the watch at US GQ’s MOTY). It’s easy to see why Hemsworth is such a fan of the fashion-influenced copy watch; it’s a statement while also being quite understated, and as weighty on the wrist as it is dainty looking.