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In 2025, the heads of Audemars Piguet are still looking to the future, but they are keeping an eye on the watchmaker’s archives as it turns 150 years old, which is soon to be said. It is time to look back on the pieces that have marked a before and after in the successful history of this independent Swiss company.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1886<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Audemars Piguet was founded in 1875 in the village of Le Brassus in Switzerland’s remote Vall\u00e9e de Joux by 24-year-old Jules Louis Audemars and his partner, neighbour and friend Edward Auguste Piguet, also from a family of watchmakers. The two began marketing unique and intricate pocket watches such as this one with minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph and calendar from 1886.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1899<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The company delivered a pocket watch nicknamed Universelle, one of the most complex of its time, with 19 complications. These included a split-seconds chronograph, a perpetual calendar and an alarm clock with minute display. In 2023, its mechanism was reproduced in miniature in the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Universelle RD#4 wristwatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1918<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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High society ladies have to manage in public to see the time without being noticed (the gesture could be considered rude), which is why some high-class watch and jewellery houses create secret watches or watches disguised as jewellery, such as this art deco pendant by Audemars Piguet with a translucent purple enamel case with diamonds, pearl-embellished chain and white silver dial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1927<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The craftsmen of Le Brassus collaborate with case-makers in Geneva and La Chaux-de-Fonds (another nearby town) to explore and combine new watchmaking shapes: cushion, barrel, rectangle, baguette, square\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1947<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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In 1930, the brand presented its first wristwatch with a chronograph. This one, in steel and rose gold, dates from 1947 and, in addition to the chronograph, includes a full calendar. It is the 5503 model housed in the Pygmalion Gallery in Singapore, one of the most extensive collections of vintage Audemars Piguet watches in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1955<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The company’s workshops produced the first wristwatch with a perpetual calendar and leap year display. The model was sold in 1959 to the neighbouring watchmaker Vacheron Constantin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1959<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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En esta d\u00e9cada, la marca tambi\u00e9n se convirti\u00f3 en un referente en la categor\u00eda de relojes ultraplanos, como \u00e9ste apodado Discovolante. En 1953, s\u00f3lo el 5% de los relojes Audemars Piguet estaban equipados con un calibre ultraplano. En los 10 a\u00f1os siguientes, la cifra aument\u00f3 a m\u00e1s del 50% de media, alcanzando un m\u00e1ximo del 77% en 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1972<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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One of the most coveted models in the world of fine watchmaking, the Royal Oak, conceived by the celebrated designer G\u00e9rald Genta, is born. It introduces the concept of a luxury steel sports watch with an integrated bracelet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This is the first automatic wristwatch with a tourbillon. And with the world’s smallest tourbillon (7.2 mm in diameter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Calibre 2120\/2800 in this wristwatch was introduced in 1978 as the world’s thinnest self-winding movement with perpetual calendar and central rotor, a title it has held for 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Royal Oak’s muscular brother, the Royal Oak Offshore, is born, 42 mm in diameter and 14.5 mm thick. Designed by Emmanuel Gueit, it is characterised by its large size, octagonal bezel, protected pushers and pyramid-based dial motif, known as mega tapestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Royal Oak Concept arrives, in a limited series of 150 pieces that eventually becomes a collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The brand is launching the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet line, consisting of round watches with a multi-faceted architecture. The collection is launched with six new calibres and 13 references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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On its 150th anniversary, Audemars Piguet wanted to \u2018give\u2019 its fans a revolutionary new generation of its perpetual calendar movement, with which the \u2018all-in-one\u2019 crown is enough to adjust its functions. The upgrade has been introduced on three of the brand’s models: a Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet (pictured) and two Royal Oak models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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