Key facts
- Company type
- Private
- Industry
- Watchmaking
- Founded
- 1875 ; 151 years ago ( 1875 ) in Le Brassus , Switzerland
- Founders
- Jules Louis Audemars Edward Auguste Piguet
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Alessandro Bogliolo (chairman) Olivier Audemars (vice chairman) Ilaria Resta (CEO)
- Products
- Wristwatches clocks
- Production output
- 50,000 (2023 estimate)
- Revenue
- 2.93 billion CHF (2025)
- Subsidiaries
- Renaud & Papi SA Centror SA
- Website
- audemarspiguet .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Audemars Piguet | Schweizer Luxusuhren
Für Audemars Piguet begann alles im Jahr 1875 im Herzen des Vallée de Joux, einer Schweizer Region, die im Rhythmus komplizierter Uhrwerke tickt.
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Encyclopedic overview
Audemars Piguet Holding SA ( French pronunciation: [odmaʁ piɡɛ]) is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, headquartered in Le Brassus, Switzerland. The company was founded by Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet in the Vallée de Joux in 1875, acquiring the name Audemars Piguet & Cie in 1881. The company has been family-owned since its founding. It is considered one of the Big Four privately-owned watch brands alongside Rolex, Patek Philippe, and Richard Mille.
The company is best known for introducing the Royal Oak wristwatch in 1972, which helped the brand rise to prominence within the watchmaking industry. One of its earlier achievements was creating the first minute-repeating movement in 1892. The company developed the first skeleton watch in 1934 and has manufactured some of the thinnest watches, such as the 1986 ultra-thin automatic tourbillon wristwatch (Calibre 2870).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Audemars Piguet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.