(Photo Credit: Audemars Piguet)This can be a mixture of posts which were originally published in April 2009, following my trip to the Audemars Piguet manufacture in Le Brassus. Click "more" to see the entire tour (37 photos, 4 slideshows, 1 video).I visited Basel, Switzerland in March, to go to this year's Baselworld show.Also , since I had been Michele watches already in Switzerland for the show, I decided to go to the Audemars Piguet factory as well.
So after my final day in Basel, I took a 3-hour train ride to Geneva. The next morning, I traveled around an hour towards the Audemars Piguet factory and headquarters in Le Brassus - found in the Joux Vall e. (Part I) AP: Forged Carbon Department Tour eplica Omega 951292.70 watch vtrue" This is actually the first part on my recent tour of the Audemars Piguet
factory and museum, in LeBrassus, Switzerland. My tour started in the "forged carbon" department. Instead of taking notes, I figured it would be more interesting to actually photograph and videotape the carbon forging process. The Omega 951292.70 watch slideshow (above) features photos of all of the steps necessary to turn raw "carbon fibers" right into a single bit of "forged carbon". First the raw fibers are unrolled, measured and cut. The little strands of carbon are then weighed on the digital scale, where they have to be accurate to 1/100th of the gram.
