====== Audemars, Jules-Louis ======
{{wst>image_r|Audemars%2C_Jules-Louis|Jules-Louis Audemars (1851-1918)}}
**Jules-Louis Audemars** was a Swiss watchmaker and co-founder of [[Audemars Piguet]].

Jules-Louis Audemars was born on March 28, [[1851]] in [[Le Brassus]] (Le Chenit). The training as watchmaker he received from his [[Audemars, François Louis|father]] in the [[Vallée de Joux]]. He began [[1875]], together with his friend [[Piguet, Edward-Auguste|Edward-Auguste Piguet]], to set up a workshop for complicated [[ebauche movement]]s on his father's farm and [[1881]] founded with him the company //Audemars Piguet & Cie., Manufacture d'Horlogerie//, from which later emerged the well-known luxury brand [[Audemars Piguet]].

Jules-Louis Audemars died on October 15, [[1918]] in [[Le Brassus]].

===== Literature =====
  *[[Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World]]; Author Baillie, G. H.; ISBN 140679113X
  *[[Das ZEITGEFÜHL-Uhrenbuch]]; Author [[Gerd-Lothar Reschke]]; ISBN 3-938607-61-0


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