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138 references across 8 model lines.
Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet founded the firm in the Vallée de Joux in 1875, and it has never left family control. For its first century it was a maker of complicated movements sold largely to other houses. Then in 1972 it launched the Royal Oak, a steel watch priced above gold ones, and the identity of the company changed permanently.
AP references combine digits with letters encoding case material and bracelet — ST for steel, OR for pink gold, BA for yellow gold, CE for ceramic, PT for platinum. So 15202ST and 15202OR are the same watch in different metal.
References combine digits with letters that encode case material and bracelet: ST for steel, OR for pink gold, BA for yellow gold, CE for ceramic, PT for platinum. So 15202ST and 15202OR are the same watch in different metal.
Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet founded the firm in the Vallée de Joux in 1875, and it has never left family control.
Yes. Audemars Piguet is catalogued in the Watch Safe reference library, and any Audemars Piguet serial number can be looked up in the public registry to check for an existing record or theft flag. Authentication is performed by independent expert authenticators; Watch Safe records the result and publishes the registry entry.
Checking a specific Audemars Piguet? Look up its serial number in the registry.