High watchmaking beginning in the valley

After a thousand years of Vallée de Joux, the wonderful natural beauty of the valley captures unlimited time treasures. As early as the 17th century, where ancient rocks and forests were scattered, the primitive and natural environment made it almost impossible to grow crops. The harsh natural environment allowed people to earn their living only through animal husbandry.

In addition to the livelihood of livestock husbandry, local people master the smelting skills of steel through rocks. In the 18th century, with the intervention of handicraft associations of religious and government backgrounds, a large number of home-based watchmaking workshops emerged in the valley of Ru and began producing high-quality watch parts. It is also due to the local long winter of up to eight months each year, these families can concentrate on the production of clocks and watches to survive, making the rapid development of the valley into a complex functional clockwork core area.

Audemars Founder Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet

Audemars Piguet, one of the top watchmaking brands in Switzerland, was born in the cradle of this fine watchmaking art. In 1875, two young promising watchmakers, Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet, founded Audemars Piguet in the small town of Brassus in the valley of Ru in Switzerland, where they made "low-yield, high-quality" products Strategy, maintains and inherits advanced watchmaking techniques in a standalone environment, and adorns the highest standards of finishing and finishing. It now appears that precisely because of this spirit of independence that it is determined to uphold, Audemars Piguet is making new innovations, proactiveness and opening up the future while continuing to inherit this precious cultural heritage.

1882: Audemars Piguet unveiled the first large, complex pocket watch with a perpetual calendar, two-second chaser timing, and a minute repeater

1892: Audemars Piguet introduced the first watch in watch history

1955: Audemars Piguet launched the history of the first watch with a perpetual calendar leap year

1978: the world's thinnest self-winding perpetual calendar watch

1986: Audemars Piguet launched the world's first self-winding ultra-thin Tourbillon watch Ref.25643BA

In 1882, Audemars Piguet unveiled the first large and complex pocket watch. In 1892, Audemars Piguet introduced the first watch in the history of watches and clocks with the minute repeater function. In 1921, Audemars Piguet launched the world's smallest movement of the minute repeater (diameter of only 15.80 mm); then, the world's slimmest pocket watch movement (only 1.32 mm thick) was introduced, equipped with an ultra-thin movement (thickness Only 1.64 mm) watch came out immediately in 1938 to create a new milestone in ultra-thin watches. In 1955, Audemars Piguet introduced the first calendar watch with a leap year display. In 1967, Audemars Piguet launched the slimmest Caliber 2120 (2.45mm thickness) self-winding movement using a central pendulum. In 1978, Audemars Piguet legendary in the field of ultra-thin watch, introduced the world's thinnest self-winding calendar watch. In 1986, Audemars Piguet created the Tourbillon device with self-winding slim watch. This epoch-making watch has a thickness of less than 5.70 mm, and the tourbillon is still the most elaborate watch in the history of the clock (only 7.20 mm in diameter).

2006: Audemars Piguet exclusive escapement system

Millenary series three asked when the watch, 9 o'clock position for Audemars Piguet exclusive escapement system

By 1999, Audemars Piguet opened up the development of the movement escapement system. After seven years of research, in 2006 launched a new escapement system (Audemars Piguet Escapement). This escapement system is different from the traditional indirect lever escapement of the Swiss way of transmission to direct drive, double flat hairspring and 6 hertz (43,200 / hour) ultra-high frequency vibration greatly improved escapement system performance, travel time Accuracy of 1.1 seconds per day, only one tenth of the allowable error of the COSC (Swiss Official Observatory).

1972: Gérald Genta's sketches (left) and the first Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch

And when it comes to Audemars Piguet's most creative masterpiece, the non-breaking tradition of the traditional watchmaking industry launched in 1972, luxury sports watch Royal Oak series must go, it is because of the emergence of the Royal Oak Audemars Piguet laid the legendary position in the history of modern watches. The Royal Oak Collection, designed by watch designer Gérald Genta to break the conventional steel and design features, is an innovative challenge to challenge traditional luxury watches and features the world's slimmest The self-winding movement with central pendulum, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal screws, dial with "Tapisserie" plaid engraved motif, and fully integrated metal strap and case. In addition to a strong sports design style, the Royal Oak watch most people talked about is its implication of innovation: the luxury watch made of gold and other precious metals all the time, the successful introduction of high-quality stainless steel watchmaking Area, called the history of the watch revolution revolutionary move.

1972: Royal Oak watch watch advertising

Since Audemars Piguet was founded in 1875, from the first handmade watchmakers, through generations of inheritance and innovation, a new chapter has been opened up for the future of complex functional watches, making Audemars Piguet an irreplaceable alternative to the advanced tabulation of the 21st century Position. The watch brand, which started in the valley of the valley, sticks to the tradition of the valley watch industry and is creative and conscientious in promoting the technological innovation of the watchmaking industry. It continues the legend of the watch industry in the valley. As Olivier Audemars, the great-grandchild of Edward Auguste Piguet, one of the founders of Audemars Piguet, once said: "My grandfather, Paul Edward Piguet, always loves to tell me the story about the watch factory. For him, the company does not belong to anyone but to this The area itself, his mission is to ensure that companies continue to stay in the valley, handed down from generation to generation. "


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