Opening of a workshop in the Vallée de Joux (Switzerland)
Opening of a workshop in the Vallée de Joux (Switzerland)
A Swiss workshop in this well-known watchmaking valley was opened in addition to the one in Paris. The links with Breguet's country of origin had always been close since the company's origins and were now considerably strengthened.
Transfer of the Breguet workshops to the Vallée de Joux. Henceforth, the entire production is based in Switzerland.
This famous valley in the canton of Vaud in the Swiss Jura has longstanding links with the history of Breguet. In the mid-nineteenth century, the firm used mouvement blanks from the Vallée de Joux, and later on, from the 1920s, Breguet commissioned Vallée de Joux watchmakers to make its most prestigious pieces, induding perpétuelle and tourbillon watches and those with many complications. And finally, in 1976, the Breguet workshops moved to premises in the Vallée de Joux, situated initially at Le Brassus and Le Sentier, and later, from the summer of 1994, in a very large restored building on the shores of the Lac de Joux, in the village of L’Abbaye. The L’Abbaye building now houses Breguet’s administrative headquarters, while the factory is housed in large modern buildings in the village of L’Orient, constructed on the former Nouvelle Lémania site between 2001 and 2014.