Audemars Piguet History in 4 Minutes

History of Audemars Piguet Join me as I dive into the fascinating history of one of the most innovative and influential watch brands of all time, Audemars Piguet. The prestigious Swiss watchmaker was founded in 1875 in Le Brassus, Switzerland, by young watchmakers Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet. In its early years, the brand produced sophisticated movements for other Geneva-based watch companies but would eventually move on to making complete wristwatches of its own a short while later, many of which had at least one, if not several, complications. By the end of the 1800s, their portfolio boasted countless sophisticated masterpieces, such as the brand’s first minute repeater wristwatch and the first Grand Complication pocket watch, which featured seven different complications, including an alarm, perpetual calendar, and even a chronograph with jumping seconds. This era, of course, would only be the beginning of over a century of innovation. The world’s first jumping hour, a complication where the hour hand literally jumps from one hour to the next instead of slowly sweeping around the dial, was developed by Audemars Piguet in 1921. The brand also created the first skeleton pocket watch in 1934, followed by the thinnest wristwatch in 1946, which featured a movement measuring just 1.64mm thick. The perpetual calendar, a staple of the modern AP catalog, first appeared in wristwatch form in 1957. This high-technology complication uses a mechanical memory t