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In the late 19th century, Swiss craftsmen Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet met at Vallee de Joux and started working together in watch manufacturing. Audemars started producing component parts for movements and Piguet was the repasseur, the person who made the final regulation of the timepiece.
In 1875, they founded a firm later known as Audemars, Piguet et Cie SA. For more than 130 years, the company has been developing and crafting precision watches. These timepieces feature a large number of flexible high-precision components that work together in a small but highly accurate moving assembly. They also feature complex mechanisms that require detailed design and manufacturing, and precision to...