The Audemars Piguet Online Watch Store

In 1875, two powerful young men passionate about Haute Horlogerie Edward-August Piguet to design and produce watches with complications in the Vallée de Joux, the cradle of Haute Horlogerie.  Determination, imagination, and discipline led them to instant success.  A branch in Geneva was about 1885 and new trade links were forged at the 1889 Paris World Exposition, where they exhibited complication pocket watches.  The Audemars Piguet factory continued to expand as the years went by.  Its creations represented major milestones in the history of Haute Horlogerie, such as the first minute repeater wristwatch in 1892 and the smallest five-minute repeater movement ever made in 1915 Jules-Louis Audemars and decided to pool their skills From 1918 onwards, The founders passed the  reins of the business onto their sons, who in turn perfected their expertise in manufacturing men's and ladies' wristwatches as well as designing new sophisticated, ultra-thin movements.  Perseverance and initiative were the watchwords: while the Wall Street crash in 1929 was lice blow, the company directors were designing so-called skeleton watches before embarking chronograph production.

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But this new momentum was abruptly interrupted by the Second World War. Re-organization was necessary for the aftermath of the conflict. The factory focused on creating top-of-the-range items in keeping with its tradition of innovation. A strategy that would prove its worth, especially since it was backed by outstanding creative daring. Audemars Piguet continued to build on its now international reputation with creative designs. 1972 saw the launch of the Royal Oak, the first, immediately successful high-quality sports watch in steel, followed in 1986 by the first ultra-thin tourbillon wristwatch with automatic winding. The creative spirit of the Manufacture has not faltered sincé, offering aesthetically original timekeepers with outstanding movements. Thus it brought watches with complications back into fashion at the end of the 1980s, launching its extraordinary Tradition d'Excellence collection in 1999. All the signs of a bold spirit rolled firmly in tradition and auguring well for the future.

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The very nature of highly complex watches is the first glance.  What the most ingenious master-watchmakers have taken years to develop can not be easily grasped, even by the keenest minds.  Understanding an exceptional timepiece, penetrating its mechanical genius and realizing all its attractions calls for a certain amount of effort.  Ranked amongst the greatest of all the complications of the lime represents an astonishing compendium of human craft and technical skill.  What we call the equation of time is the difference between apparent solar time and mean solar time.  If one knows the value of the equation and time and the local length, one can determine precisely when the sun reaches its zenith at a given point on the globe.  Audemars Piguet has been chosen throughout the horological history.  The Equation of Time is the only point in the world that you find yourself.  This feat has been made possible by drawing on the historical know-how of the Manufacture in Le Brassus in the field of perpetual calendars.  Right from its founding in 1875, Audemars Piguet presented a pocket-watch with a perpetual calendar.  The first ultra-thin perpetual calendar to appear on a self-winding wristwatch.  The Equation of lime descends from a line of illustrious ancestors.

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Corrections are made automatically for 28, 29, 30 or 31 days.  The wearer will only have one manual correction by pressing the corrector twice on the evening of February 28, 2100. The Equation of Time is an absolutely unique timepiece for several reasons.  2808.  Unique in its extreme degree of customization, since every watch matches exactly the precise coordinates of the purchaser's chosen location.  The transparent case back of the Equation of Time reveals the oscillating weight of the self-winding movement.  The weight may be open-worked and engraved with a personalized motif.  By integrating this Louch of emotion and personalization within one of the most prestigious horological mechanisms, Audemars Piguet is opening up the whole new vistas in the history of "Haute Horlogerie".  The Equation of Time has written one of its first chapters.