Audemars Piguet Unveils Groundbreaking New Perpetual Calendar Movement

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The history of Audemars Piguet officially begins in 1875, when Jules Louis Audemars and Edward August Piguet joined forces to found a watchmaking atelier in Le Brassus, Switzerland, a remote village in the Vallée de Joux, the area in the Jura Mountains known as the cradle of Swiss watchmaking. Unofficially, however, the story begins nearly a century…