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Audemars Piguet Manufacture Les Saignoles Le Locle, Guillaume de Moriser - Valentin Kunik, Switzerland

Audemars Piguet Manufacture Les Saignoles Le Locle | 2021
Guillaume de Moriser - Valentin Kunik, Switzerland

Architects: Kuník de Morsier architectes
Client: Audemars Piguet
Landscape Architects: Jan Forster
Photographer: Iwan Baan


The Manufacture is designed as a tool perfectly adapted to the contemporary needs of Fine Watchmaking, and flexible enough to adapt to future industrial changes. It’s design follows the sun path, the milieu and the local atmosphere to create the most stunning emotions.

The Manufacture is not a standard facility but rather it is an experience. The architecture is inspired by the atmospheres and the surrounding geographies. Momentum of Nature are identified and reinterpreted as architectural spaces. It gives the shape and the ambiance to every room. They are all made with different materials, lights and colors reflecting thus the Momentums of Nature.
The Manufacture is a place that enhance one’s relation to the environment, the nature and the natural sun path. It offers to all the collaborators and the visitors a unique experience of time. Every single moment is different and unique.


Kunik de Morsier architectes
Kunik de Morsier architectes
Kunik de Morsier architectes


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