Audemars Piguet
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Audemars Piguet Holding SA 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
Audemars Piguet boutique in Geneva
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak chronograph
Bracelet on a Royal Oak
A Royal Oak Offshore chronograph
Quartz crisis
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The quartz crisis or quartz revolution was the upheaval in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the w
Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969
The first Swiss quartz clock, which was made after World War II (left), on display at the International Museum of Horology in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland
Seiko Grand Quartz, produced in 1978
Swatch Once Again watch