Audemars Piguet And Its Complications Worldwide
Since its foundation in 1875, Audemars Piguet has specialised in creating and marketing watches with complications. An exhibition, which will be staged in about sixty different cities on all five continents, and a theme catalogue will be the major event of this first year of the third millennium. Chronographs, tourbillons, striking mechanisms, jumping hours, time zones, time equation and sun path, large date, power reserve, moon phases, annual and perpetual day of the month functions will all reveal a part of their mystery. But this exhibition including about 50 masterpieces all created at Le Brassus will offer above all an opportunity to see two worldwide firsts.
Under the title "As time goes by: the art of watches and complications", the 12 chapters of Audemars Piguet’s new catalogue present all the watches with complications, both contemporary and historic, made by this watchmaker based in Le Brassus. The result is determined by the time units counted by the calibres, from the fraction of a se-cond measured by the jumping seconds hand to the 1,461 days of the cycle between one leap year to the next.