(Part IV) AP: After Sales Department
(AP Grand Sonnerie, with temporary wax protection around bezel, in for service/repair.)
The third part of my Audemars Piguet factory tour, was a visit to the AP after-sales department. This was a very fun department to visit, because I could sense a true passion for watchmaking. And because laying on top of the different workbenches, were some of the most complicated timepieces I had ever seen. Grand complications, minute-repeater, quarter-repeaters, tourbillons and more.
(Grand Complication pocket watch in for service/repair.)
(Old-Fashioned watchmaking machine.)
(AP- Maintains a digital archive of all watches sold)
(Pocket watch in protective case, awaiting service/repair.)
(AP- Tourbillon in for repair/service.)
(Watchmaking repair/service/adjustment tools.)
(Minute repeater in for service/repair)
(Head of After-Sales Department holding document that is provided to all clients after their timepiece leaves AP.)
(AP PR Director and master watchmaker.)
(Fire safe full of old AP parts and unfinished calibres)
(Box with parts dating back to 1898.)
(One of the master watchmakers.)
(Master watchmaker hard at work.)
(Parts bin for timepiece that was being repaired.)
Please hit the play button to view a slideshow that includes all photos taken in the AP after sales department.
Go to Audemars Piguet tour:
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V
