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Piguet .:.Home.:.Downloads Audemars Piguet history The Audemars Piguet story begins in 1875. In that time 23 year old watchmaker Jules Audemars and future partner Edward-August Piguet, just 21 years of age, met in the Vallee de Joux. Both had learned the watchmaker's trade after finishing public school in their hometown of Le Brassus by training at the bench and returned to the Vallee de Joux to find jobs in the local watchmaking industry. Jules Audemars was soon producing raw components for watch movements and Edward-August Piguet sought employment as a "repasseur" (a master watchmaker who performs the final regulation on a watch). Shortly after their meeting in 1875, the two talented watchmakers decided to join forces and founded the firm that would someday come to be known as Audemars, Piguet et Cie.
Almost from the beginning,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Audemars was in charge of production and the technical side, while his partner Piguet focused on sales. Their partnership was not an immediate success, however. In fact, the Audemars Piguet trademark was not even registered until 1882 and the firm's "official founding" did not take place until 1889. Already, however, Audemars Piguet et Cie had become the third largest employer for watch manufacturing in the Canton of Vaud. Both men had deliberately shifted their focus towards the production of high-quality, complex,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ultra-precise watches.
After the official founding in 1889, a branch office was built in Geneva and the partners decided to produce all of their components and assemble the finished watches in-house. This allowed the firm to maintain strict quality control over their products and as a result, only products of the highest quality left the workshop. In short order, the greatest, most renowned retail jewelers were ordering watches from Le Brassus.
It is interesting that between 1894 and 1899, a mere 1,208 watches were produced. Among these were some of the most sophisticated timepieces ever made, including the legendary "Grande Complication" series, which is still being produced today. Aside from normal time indication, a Grande Complication timepiece offers minute repetition, perpetual calendar, and chronograph.
At around this same time, the retail operations in Geneva and London were transformed into full-service branches where watches were not only serviced but also assembled. Audemars Piguet launched a project to develop a watch so complicated that it would take six years,till 1920, of continuous production before the watch could be delivered to the importers Guignard & Golay in London.
The watch in question was a pocket watch with two dials and a one-minute tourbillon mechanism. As well as a tourbillon, this double dial Lepine, gold watch included a minute repeater, a chronograph with 60-minute and 12-hour counters, perpetual calendar with displays which "jump" at midnight, display of the leap year cycle, the "age" and phases of the moon, and power reserve display. The second face showed an additional 24 hours based on the sidereal hour,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], moving a pair of independent hands. A special system connected to this gear-train makes it possible to see the changes in the London sky at any time of the day or night, through an oval-shaped opening in the rear dial.
This sky is represented by 315 stars engraved on a plate of gold, enameled in blue. The stars, with their respective names,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], are all clearly visible.
Unfortunately, it was the last triumph for the founding partners. Audemars died in 1918. The following year, so did Edward Piguet. After the founders' death, Audemars Piguet continued to prosper, establishing several technical milestones with the creation of the world's smallest minute repeater watch, having a diameter of just 15.8 millimeters; Hunter Model debut with a jumping second hand, also featuring a barometer, quarter repeater, independent second hand,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the date and day of the week; and in 1925, another first: the world's thinnest pocket watch measuring just 1.32 millimeters.
The year 1928 also saw the development of the world's first skeletonized pocketwatch. As now, Audemars Piguet was considered one of the finest watch manufacturers in the world. Business boomed, as did the world economy.
Today, Audemars Piguet remains one of the most prestigious watchmakers in the world, despite the company's enormous success, every watch is still made by hand the old-fashioned way - one at a time. Today, along with Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin, AP is considered to be one of the "big-three" as one of the finest watches in the world.
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