Audemars Piguet
Audemars Piguet long history dates back to 1875 when a then 23 year old Jules Audemars joined forces with a 21 year old Edward Piguet, also a trained watchmaker, both of them having learned their trade after finishing public school in their hometown of Le Brassus. At the time, Jules was fabricating complicated “ebouches” (blank watch movements, to be finished and fitted by a watch manufacturer) from a workshop he had set up at his parents farm, while Edward was working as a self employed “repasseur” (a master watchmaker who performs the final regulation on a watch). Thanks to orders pouring in from Geneva Audemars was forced to engage more watchmakers, one of whom was Edward Piguet, whom he knew from schooldays. Soon after, they decided to cease to work as suppliers to established firms and instead manufacture and market the complicated watches that were their mutual passion. Audemars, Piguet & Cie was thus born.
1892
Development and production of the first minute repeater wristwatch.
1915
The smallest five-minute repeater calibre ever made, with a diameter of just 15.80 mm.
1924
First jumping-hour wristwatch.
1925
World’s thinnest pocket-watch calibre 81.32 mm.
1934
First skeletonised pocket watch.
1946
World’s thinnest wristwatch.
1957
First Audemars Piguet wristwatch with a perpetual calendar.
1967
World’s first thinnest selfwinding calibre with central rotor (2.45 mm).
1972
Birth of the Royal Oak, the first steel high-end sports watch.
1978
First selfwinding ultra-thin perpetual calendar wristwatch with central rotor.
1986
First ultra-thin (5.5 mm thick including the case) selfwinding tourbillon wristwatch.
1989
Smallest selfwinding perpetual calendar watch.
1994
First wristwatch with Grande and Petite Sonnerie, quarter repeater striking on two gongs.
1996
First selfwinding Grande complication watch
1997
First Grande Sonnerie chiming model, minute repeater with three gongs and three hammers.
2000
First model with Equation of Time, sunrise and sunset times and perpetual calendar.
2006
Audemars Piguet direct-impulse escapement.
2008
First watch featuring a carbon case and movement.
2009
High-frequency chronometer with Audemars Piguet escapement and double balance-spring.
From the company website
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