Audemars Piguet is a Swiss watch manufacture founded in 1875 in Le Brassus, a village in the Vallée de Joux, and is still owned by descendants of its founding families. It is best known for the Royal Oak, the steel luxury sports watch introduced in 1972, and for a long tradition of complicated and ultra-thin mechanical movements. Unlike most major Swiss watch brands, Audemars Piguet is independent…