Audemars Piguet –Pushing the Boundaries of Fine Watchmaking

Audemars Piguet is one of the three big Swiss watchmakers and still today every timepiece manufactured in-house is made using the old-fashioned hand made technique. The Audemars Piguet story dates back to 1875 and Le Brassus, Switzerland, where Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet decided to join forces and started a watchmaking company with the goal to develop and craft watches equipped with complex mechanisms. The company quickly became famous for its delicate watchmaking and amongst their clients where, Bulgari, Cartier and Tiffany & Co. who rebranded and sold Audemars Piguet watches under their own house names. Audemars Piguet has since the start been dedicated to craft watches of highest complexity and innovation, with several firsts and records in numerous horological categories.

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 Audemars Piguet is meticulous attention to detail, defined

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The two friends shared a passion for watchmaking and a mastery of the art of precision, which yet today characterizes the company. Audemars Piguet continues to blend tradition, experience and knowledge in order to push the boundaries of fine watchmaking.

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Audemars Piguet is not just a company. It’s still an independent family business established in and continually operating from Le Brassus, in the Vallee De Joux, the cradle of fine watchmaking

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 Audemars Piguet Product Portfolio

The main Audemars Piguet product portfolio consists of the following models: Royal Oak, Royal Oak Offshore, Millenary, Jules Audemars, Tradition, Classique

Pricing of current Audemars Piguet models

The prices for a new Audemars Piguet watch range from about $23.500 to $760.000 Quotes for all current Audemars Piguet models (prices in Euro)

Notable facts about Audemars Piguet

Audemars Piguet have created the world’s smallest manual movement for a wristwatch, the first wristwatch with tourbillon and mechanical winding, the Dual Time, the first skeleton watch amongst many other boundary pushing achievements. In 1972 Audemars Piguet created the Royal Oak, the first luxury watch in stainless steel. The Royal Oak was designed by Gerald Genta and is by many seen as the watch that introduced stainless steel as a material in luxury watches. The Royal Oak is one of the most iconic watches ever and has been the influence of many other watch models. Here is a very good article on the Royal Oak History

Notable wearers and brand endorsers of Audemars Piguet

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For more info about Audemars Piguet

• Audemars Piguet Official Website