www.victorinoxblog.com Audemars Piguet History In 1875, in the Swiss village of Le Brassus, two young men passionately dedicated to watchmaking, Jules-Louis Audemars and Edward-Auguste Piguet, have decided to pool their skills to design and produce watches with complex mechanisms. Their determination, imagination and discipline were soon to earn their remarkable success. Around 1885, they founded a branch in Geneva and in 1889, the business relationships in the UniversalExhibition in Paris, where he presented some complex pocket watches. During the Manufacture Audemars Piguet has developed since then, the spirit of high standards, inventiveness and watchmaking passion that drove its founder still exists, the daily management of the company in its decisions. Today, Audemars Piguet is the oldest Manufacture of Haute Horlogerie is never left in the hands of its founding families. More than 700 people worldwide, including 550 at its three productionLocations in Switzerland, and more than 24,000 watches produced each year, express its dynamism, its independence and its spirit of genuine creative daring. 1892 First performance: Audemars Piguet develops and is the first minute repeater wristwatch. 1899 A "Grande Complication" pocket watch by Audemars Piguet results from the workshop. It 'great strike and minute repeater chimes and small gongs on three hits with an alarm gong independent, perpetual calendar...
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