Atelier Audemars Piguet Museum
Atelier Audemars Piguet Museum
March 24, 2021 by admin

Adjacent to Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet’s original workshop from 1875, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed a contemporary museum for the luxury watchmakers. The spiral building emerges from the valley floor of the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland as a modern complement to the historic building. Its walls of structural curved glass support a steel roof planted with grass to regulate the temperature while a brass mesh filters light. Visitors begin in the original building and continue in a clockwise direction like the spring of a timepiece though a collection of 300 watches. At the core of the spiral, the brand’s most complicated timepiece, the Universelle, is displayed in a glass sphere and is surrounded by eight other significant watches, reminiscent of a solar system orbiting the sun. Also in the coil are two ateliers showcasing the company’s intricate eight-month process of assembling 648 pieces. The Atelier Audemars Piguet Museum has opened on June 25, 2020.

Pictures from Iwan Baan, Giovanni Emilio Galanello and Audemars Piguet

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Atelier Audemars Piguet Museum
March 24, 2021 by admin

Adjacent to Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet’s original workshop from 1875, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed a contemporary museum for the luxury watchmakers. The spiral building emerges from the valley floor of the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland as a modern complement to the historic building. Its walls of structural curved glass support a steel roof planted with grass to regulate the temperature while a brass mesh filters light. Visitors begin in the original building and continue in a clockwise direction like the spring of a timepiece though a collection of 300 watches. At the core of the spiral, the brand’s most complicated timepiece, the Universelle, is displayed in a glass sphere and is surrounded by eight other significant watches, reminiscent of a solar system orbiting the sun. Also in the coil are two ateliers showcasing the company’s intricate eight-month process of assembling 648 pieces. The Atelier Audemars Piguet Museum has opened on June 25, 2020.

Pictures from Iwan Baan, Giovanni Emilio Galanello and Audemars Piguet

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