A new Audemars Piguet service center in Besançon
At the end of May 2019, Audemars Piguet inaugurated its new European service center for the maintenance of the brand’s high-end watches at the Témis technopole in Besançon. This center, which is located in this 900 m² building with high energy and environmental performance, sees around 2,000 watches a year. It employs 34 people and is expected to recruit 15 more watchmakers in the next few years. “The brand is growing. In 2011, we realized a turnover of 500 million Swiss francs, last year we exceeded one billion. We sell 40,000 watches a year in the world. If we sell more watches, we repair more. And we decided more than five years ago to have two centers for Europe, Besançon and Madrid “, said the CEO François-Henry Bennahmias.