When it comes to the top of the line
watches, with a history of innovation and quality, one would be hard-pressed to
find an expert that does not mention Audemars Piguet watches. They provide
handmade watches from the Vallee de Joux, the heart of Swiss watchmaking. Each
carefully crafted watch embodies the companies passion for art, style,
innovation, and respect for tradition. Their website states in the about
section, "Audemars Piguet is not just a company. It's still an independent
family business established in and continually operating from Le Brassus…"
Some facts about the company, it was
found in 1875 when two men decided to join forces. Their names were, Jules
Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet. They wanted to work together to use
dual passions to develop and create watches equipped with complex mechanisms
and now today, the company founded by these two legendary watchmakers, has
become the oldest watchmaking manufacturer left, which has allowed them to
streak independently and innovate freely.
Audemars Piguet watches have, throughout
the years, accomplished many firsts in the world of watch-making. In 1892, they
developed and produced the first-minute repeater wristwatch. 1915, the watch
craftsmen of Audemars Piguet created the smallest five-minute repeater caliber
ever made and in 1921, they made the first jumping-hour wristwatch. And that's
not all, they developed the first skeletonized pocket watch in 1934, and during
the year of 1978, Audemars Piguet watches produced the first self-winding ultra-thin
perpetual calendar wristwatch with central rotor, and in during the turn of the
millennium, these Swiss watch makers designed and produced the first model of
Equation of Time, sunrise and sunset times and perpetual calendar. It seems
like the decades pass; this family owned manufacturing company has continued to
lead in research and development of new age products.
Many Professional personalities today
endorse these watches, enough so to place their faces on the web page. Names
like that of Indy car racing champion Micheal Schumacher,
who challenged watchmakers to create a mechanical wristwatch that would make it
possible to measure and record an extended number of consecutive laps and their
times.
There are also notable PGA Tour
players, for instance, the names of Ian Poulter and Nick Faldo are a pair of
accomplished golfers.. Even world renown cricket athlete Sachin Tendulkar, who
prefers the Royal Oak GMT Tourbillion Concept, calls himself an ambassador to
the product.
