AUDEMARS PIGUET

In the Swiss Vallee de Joux, two young entrepreneurs in their early twenties reconnected in 1874. Their names were Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet, and they had known each other since boyhood. They agreed to start a business together a year later, in 1875. They had no idea that their company's name would become one of the most well-known in its field. This is the tale of Audemars Piguet's beginnings and development.

Both Audemars and Piguet were born and raised in the Vallee de Joux, where they were immersed in the region's rich horological history. They come from a long line of watchmakers and began learning the craft at an early age. As they set up their first workshop, they each had unique abilities in different areas of watchmaking to offer to the table. They were made for each other.

Audemars Piguet was a highly technological company that specialized in the manufacture of intricate watch mechanisms. As a result, he concentrated on overseeing production, product development, and the creation of raw components for their early clocks. Piguet, on the other hand, performed the final regulation on the watches as the repasseur or master watchmaker. He meticulously examined each completed component, made all required modifications, assembled the movements, and activated the timepieces. Piguet later realized his affinity for the business side of sales, marketing, and management as the firm developed and changed, and transitioned into that job.

With the production of the first minute repeater timepiece in 1892, the company accomplished its first really innovative creation. They introduced the "Grand Complication" pocket watch just a few years later, in 1899. A grand and tiny strike, minute repeater, alarm, perpetual calendar, deadbeat seconds, chronograph with jumping seconds, and split-seconds hand were among the model's seven distinctive complexities.