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...[[Swatch]] are based here, Biel is counted among the most important watch towns. ==Bienne/Biel Watch Companies== ...

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'''L'Abbaye''' is a Swiss watch village. [[Category:Watch towns]] ...

...atchmaker art. The [[manufacture]] [[Audemars Piguet]] maintains a private watch museum in Le Brassus. [[Category:Watch towns]] ...

...are larger cities with many large manufacturers, while most Jura triangle towns and manufacturers are much smaller. The Jura triangle crosses Canton bounda The major watchmaking towns in the Jura triangle are as follows: ...

...Jura]] region of [[Canton Berne]]. It is one of the principal watchmaking towns of the [[Jura Triangle]] and is located about half way between [[La Chaux-d Saint-Imier is well-known for the large [[Longines]] watch factory and is also home to [[Excelsior Park]], [[Léonidas]], and many othe ...

'''Le Sentier''' is a Swiss watch town. ...on of Vaud (German: Waadtland). Le Sentier is also the headquarters of the watch-museum "L'Espace Horloger" in which the history of watchmaking and a valuab ...

...[[1911]] and moved to Ponts-de-Martel in [[1914]], focused on complicated watch movements and related to [[Universal Genève]] and [[Zénith]]. [[Category:Watch towns]] ...

...|Gala watch factory]] as well as tooling makers Technos (not [[Technos|the watch brand]]) and W. Meyer Fils. Much of the watchmaking in Cormoret was initiat After the Napoleonic wars, Cormoret followed other [[Saint-Imier valley]] towns into watchmaking. Around [[1850]], watchmaking came using [[Japy Frères]] e ...

Although both villages had a large number of watch manufacturers in the 19th century, but the 20th century most had focused on Among the well-known resident watch manufacturers counts [[Auguste Reymond]]. The eponymous founder hired a apa ...

La Chaux-de-Fonds is one of the most important watch towns in the Canton of [[Neuchâtel]] in the [[Swiss]] [[Jura]] mountains. It is t La Chaux-de-Fonds is located a few kilometers East of the related Swiss watch town of [[Le Locle]] and is often considered the Western apex of the [[Jura ...

Renan is not as well-known as many other [[Jura Triangle]] towns, but its close proximity to [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]] made it a useful location ...was S. Gräber, which grew in the post-war period to be a major producer of watch cases. Joining holding company [[Gramex]] with [[Fleurier]]-based [[Métalex ...

'''Grenchen''' is a watch city in Switzerland in the Canton of [[Solothurn]] at the German-French lan Known as Grenchen-based watch manufacturers are [[Breitling]], [[Fortis]], [[Titoni]], [[Eterna]] and [[P ...

...on in central western Switzerland that includes many important watchmaking towns. ...red Bienne's capacity to largely self-sustain in producing a wide array of watch components. ...

...bly of money boxes. Villeret also had two workshops for production of gold watch cases: Chopard (known as "le Petit") and that of Jean-Frédéric Boissonnas o ...nd mechanical improvements made increased the wholesale price for a silver watch from under 20 francs to nearly 70 francs, and workers in the town could ear ...

...d Valangin. They later migrated to the Northern side of the valley and the towns of Dombresson and Villiers before crossing the mountains to [[Le Locle]], [ Jeanneret et Fallet produced [[stop watch]]es and [[chronograph]]s, a specialty of the family. The partnership was su ...

...t]], connected through the gorges de Court, and to the west of the smaller towns of [[Grandval]] and [[Corcelles]]. ...ls as well as weight-powered pendulum clocks. Mr. Mérillat also operated a watch business in Moutier employing two or three workers before 1850. ...

'''Le Locle''' is one of the most important "watch cities" of [[Switzerland]]. ...]], and many others. Today, these companies remain in the town, along with watch manufacturing for many other famous names, including [[Montblanc]], [[Rolex ...

...d Valangin. They later migrated to the Northern side of the valley and the towns of Dombresson and Villiers before crossing the mountains to [[Le Locle]], [ ...amelan still exists as Serre 14 today. Jeanneret et Fallet produced [[stop watch]]es and [[chronograph]]s, a specialty of the family. Fallet left the partne ...