Audemars Piguet

The roots of Audemars Piguet date back to 1875, when the 23 year-old Jules-Louis Audemars met Edward-Auguste Piguet, then only 21, at Vallée de Joux, which is considered to be the cradle of prestige watch-making. Their hometown was Le Brassus. When they graduated school they went to Vallée de Joux to start working in their favorite field of watch manufacturing.

Thus Audemars started producing component parts for movements and Piguet got the job of a repasseur, whose job it was to make the final regulation of the timepiece. They founded a firm later known as Audemars, Piguet et Cie.

Since 1882, members of the Audemars and Piguet families have always been on the board of directors and have thus directly or indirectly run the company.

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• Horology
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• Brassus
• Switzerland
• Jules-Louis
• Audemars
• Edward-Auguste
• Piguet
• Vallée
• de
• Joux
• Prestige
• Manufacturing
• Timepiece

[renshoota]

Those links which you speak of are now solid as they are on the new submariner. The gold watches always had solid links though. they just started that on the steel watches. No more band stretch.

[HalflingShireFolk]

Hey I saw a video that was taken in Rolex factory in Switzerland and some mid-bracelet/band pieces were empty inside them, they were just curved. I was shocked and I still don't understand how that's possible in such a great company's manufacture section. WTF!? I'm still in shock. Check out the YouTube video titled: A look inside the Rolex factory. And the shameful scene I'm talking about is at 0:54... I prefer a high end replica after seeing the video rather than a real with curved mid-band.