Fascinating Designs from
Audemars Piguet

With a strong and focused dedication to creating the finest and most luxurious watches, Audemars Piguet is undeniably one of the most well-known watch makers to date. It was founded in 1875 by Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet during their early twenties.

Their craftsmanship and eye for details has allowed them to create in 1882 the Grande Complication watch. This is a minute repeater, perpetual calendar, moonphase, and chronograph. 1889, a newer Grande Complication was produced with similar functions as well as a split-second chronograph.

Their innovative characters made them moving the watch industry literally with many “first” creations. Examples are:

• In 1915, they made the smallest minute-repeater movement
• 1925, the slimmest pocket watch
• 1945, the slimmest manual winding wristwatch
• 1967, the slimmest automatic movement
• 1972, the famous collectible Royal Oak
• 1992, the Triple Complication wristwatch
• 1994, Grande Sonnerie using 410 mechanical pieces to create one of the most complicated known movement
• 1999, the Tourbillon Minute Repeater Split Second Chronograph Jules Audemars watch
• In 2000, an extremely complex masterpiece, the Jules Audemars Equation of Time with tourbillon escapement wristwatch was made. In the same year, the Edward Piguet Minute Repeater with chimes and a limited edition of 20 platinum pieces was created
• 2001, another two masterpieces which are first of its kind, the Edward Piguet Tourbillon with power reserve, chronograph and dynamograph; and the Jules Audemars Metropolis Perpetual Calendar (first to have both a perpetual calendar that displays local time in every 24 key zones).