Description
Audemars Piguet
The company was founded by Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet in the Vallée de Joux in 1875.
It acquired the name Audemars Piguet & Cie in 1881.
The company has been family owned since its inception.
Audemars Piguet is a highly respected watch manufacturer.
Finding beauty in the animal:
A brief history of Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore.
Today, when collectors discuss the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, you usually hear about the birth of the luxury sports watch trend and the elevation of steel to a noble metal.
Royal Oak is very precise in its construction with a superior hand finish.
Great attention paid to perfecting every aspect and edge of the holster and stroke.
Its younger and more brutal sibling, the Offshore, while AP watchmakers pay the same attention to detail, is not awarded the same elegant image.
In fact, Offshore has been nicknamed "the beast" within and outside of production.
While its larger size confused traditionalists, in retrospect the collection represents the mindset the brand has adopted today - working to introduce trends rather than follow them.
This is a short story about how the world began to find beauty in the "animal".