Wednesday 23 March 2016

It Took Nine Years of R&D to Perfect This Watch’s Chime

Audemars Piguet’s past resonates in its current generation of minute repeaters. In 2006, eight master watchmakers and engineers at Audemars Piguet sat around a table in their Vallée de Joux headquarters with a selection of historical Audemars Piguet minute repeaters, some dating back to just a few years after the brand’s founding in the late 19th century. Their task was to identify the sound that would set the future tone—literally and figuratively—for the company’s acoustic-watch program. “They final...


from
http://robbreport.com/watches/it-took-nine-years-rd-perfect-watchs-chime

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