Tavannes watch co
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Catalogs from the 1930s also show wrist-chronographs equipped with Valjoux movements. These were followed by "waterproof" versions. In 1938, around 2000 employees and 2200 machine-tools reached an output of about 4000 watches and movements a day The company's 20th-century product range naturally included wristwatches of the most diverse character - for example the shock-proof models with a protective cover issued to soldiers in 1915. New markets in the Far East and elsewhere gave a noticeable boost to growth. The company continued to expand after the turn of the century.īy around 1905, daily production amounted to some 1000 watches. Towards 1892 the company entered into a cooperative agreement with Schwob Freres of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Some of these went onto the market under the Cyma name. Forty employees, with the help of 55 modern machine-tools completed more than 40 timepieces a day.
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The new workshops covered more than 1000 square meters. Further patents ensued, among them for a stem-winding mechanism and a chiming movement. In the nearby town of Tavannes he started a new company for the production of simple and complicated watches, including chronographs, an aptitude for which was proved by a chronograph patent registered in 1890. To get on in his profession he turned his back on his home town of Le Locle and the Henri Sandoz & Co. Henri Sandoz.įrederic Henri Sandoz was in heart and soul a businessman. Click here for Cyma timepieces currently for sale.įounded 1891 in Tavannes by Tavannes Watch, F.