Mission of the International Museum of Horology of La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Watchmaking Tourism Saga - La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle Region
Welcome to the 3rd episode of our watchmaking tourism saga. Today we’re in La Chaux-de-Fonds and its surrounding area, a region where many brands and many suppliers of the watchmaking industry are located. We’ll start with a little focus on the city, which is one of the largest at this altitude in Europe at 1,000 meters with a population of approximately 40,000 people. And at 40,000 it is the 3rd largest French-speaking city in Switzerland, which gives you a bit of perspective on the size of this country…
We often laugh among ourselves concerning the very special weather that people endure here: statistically speaking, there are 150 days per year with sub-zero temperatures and snow is regularly part of the picture! At the same time, this city benefits from quite sunny conditions as it is located above the layer of clouds often found in other parts of Switzerland.
But let’s go back to the watchmaking dimension of this region because it has really played an important role in the development of this industry and continues to do so.
Following on what we showed you that happened in Geneva and the Vallée de Joux and the importance of immigration of French protestant craftsmen, the same can be said as having taken place in these valleys. Watchmaking occupied a lot of farmers during the harsh winter periods during the 17th and 18th centuries. But as this industry grew, so did the rationalisation of fabrication methods, and people started to specialise in the different skills required to produce a full watch. The notion of a web and network of connected suppliers emerged, a principle that prevailed for a long time before the current verticalisation that we see today among the power houses of watchmaking.
Big drama took place in 1794 with a massive fire destroying almost all of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Watchmaking being already a big economic driver, rebuilding the city was seen as an opportunity and a very clever and comprehensive approach to make it as efficient as possible to support the development of the industry that followed. A grid approach was adopted for the streets in order to optimise circulation from one supplier to the next, and streets were made larger than what they had previously been. This helped with snow shovelling, but also with the simple fact that buildings would not cast shadows upon each other, light being so important for watchmakers to be able to see what they are doing!
But the reconstruction didn’t stop at these architectural parameters, and the social dimension was also greatly taken into consideration. Interactions between different social classes were also highly encouraged, as these new buildings would house not only workshops, but also their workers and bosses in the same units. Small gardens in front of houses let people grown their own vegetables, for instance, very similar to the concepts of urban farming that we are talking about today.
The cultural offering was also totally remarkable and of great quality, boasting theatres, concert halls with outstanding acoustics, and conference auditoriums. And the successful watchmakers themselves directly sponsored much of this infrastructure and the cultural performances. All this created a greater sense of solidarity, and the city as a whole was portrayed as a huge factory town, even described as an example by Karl Marx!
The basis of watchmaking industrialisation was set, and by the end of the 19th century almost half of the world’s watch production came out of this region.
The sister city of La Chaux-de-Fonds is called Le Locle, also built using the same grid principle, and between them one can say that they were at the epicentre of Swiss watch production until the 1980s, before the quartz revolution made a massive impact on mechanical watchmaking.
Because of all these very special urban features, La Chaux-de-Fond and Le Locle have been listed as a World Heritage Site of UNECSO, and I can guarantee you that people here are super proud of that.
Among some important people outside of watchmaking originating from La Chaux-de-Fonds, I would like to mention architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, whose first works can be found here – well before other major projects in other parts of the world where the notion of collective architecture took on a special meaning. I would also like to mention Louis Chevrolet, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Company. This probably presents quite a surprise, but he must have taken some of this industrial and well planned background to the US.
If you come to visit this region, you should know there are 2 important watch museums, the International Watch Museum of La Chaux-de-Fonds hosting one of the biggest watch collections on display in the world, and the Museum des Monts just above Le Locle, which also has some very interesting pieces on exhibition.
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning (UNESCO/NHK)
The site of La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle watchmaking town-planning consists of two towns situated close to one another in a remote environment in the Swiss Jura mountains, on land ill-suited to farming. Their planning and buildings reflect watchmakers' need of rational organization. Planned in the early 19th century, after extensive fires, the towns owed their existence to this single industry. Their layout along an open-ended scheme ...
Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai
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La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss city of the district of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometres south of the French border. After Geneva and Lausanne, it is the third largest city located completely in the Romandie, the French-speaking part of the country, with a population (as of December 2013) of 38,699
The city was founded in 1656. Its growth and prosperity is mainly bound up with the watch making industry. It is the most important centre of the watch making industry in the area known as the Watch Valley. Completely destroyed by a fire in 1794 La Chaux-de-Fonds was rebuilt following a grid street plan, which was and is still original among Swiss cities. Karl Marx said about the very special urban design of the city that it was a city-factory. The famous architect Le Corbusier, the writer Blaise Cendrars and the car maker Louis Chevrolet were born there. La Chaux-de-Fonds is a renowned centre of Art nouveau.
In 2009, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, its sister city, have jointly been awarded UNESCO World Heritage status for their exceptional universal value.
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La Chaux-de-Fonds, Watch Museum
[EN] Visiting the International Watchmaking Museum - MIH - in Switzerland
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Enjoy this tour I made to what I consider the most complete watchmaking museum in the world: the International Watchmaking Museum, also known as MIH - Musée International d´Horlogerie, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switerland..
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La Chaux-De-Fonds : Musée de l'Horlogerie
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MIH Musee International d'horlogerie Switzerland
Horology Museum of La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland
A Swiss city made for its watchmakers
La Chaux-de-Fonds is a city resurrected from its ashes. After a catastrophic fire in 1794, it was rebuilt to suit the watchmakers who lived and worked there, making it a unique location in Switzerland.
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La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss city of the district of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometres south of the French border. After Geneva and Lausanne, it is the third largest city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of the country, with a population of (as of December 2011) of 37,843.
Musée international d'horlogerie - La Chaux-de-Fonds
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MUSEÉ INTERNATIONAL D'HORLOGERIE EM LA-CHAUX-DE-FONDS
Musée international de l'horlogerie de La Chaux de Fonds
Découvrez une petite visite du MIH, le musée international de l'horlogerie de La Chaux de Fonds en Suisse. Ce musée vous permet de découvrir des objets de l'origine de la mesure du temps, jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
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The West End Watch Company was created in 1886. The West End, a district of the centre of London, inspired its name to M. Arnold Charpié who was the Bombay representative of the Alcide Droz & Sons firm, a watch company established at Saint-Imier (Canton of Bern) in Switzerland.
In 1886, MM. Amstutz and Droz, the owner of Alcide Droz & Sons firm, began the exploitation of the trademark West End Watch Company in the Indian market and developed the first waterproof pocket watch ever produced:[1] L'Impermeable (nowadays displayed at the International Watchmaking Museum of La Chaux-de-Fonds).
During the First World War, a large force of British and Indian soldiers was sent from Bombay to the Persian Gulf to reach Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). They received some West End Watch Company watches.
In 1917, the West End Watch Company changed its name to Société des Montres West End SA and was registered in Geneva. At the same time the sub-brand Sowar was also registered.
In 1934, the Société des Montres West End SA was the first brand to introduce the Incabloc anti-shock system invented by Mr. Braunschweig.[2]
In 1973, after several years of development, the company was finally sold, for lack of heirs, to its main supplier, Aubry Brothers Ltd, established in Noirmont (Jura) to keep open the Bombay West End Watch Company's office.
Since 2000 the workshops and the head office of the company have been moved to Leytron, in Wallis. At the same time, the company was taken over by new shareholders and the management changed.
In 2005, the West End Watch Company celebrated its 120th anniversary of uninterrupted presence in Asia with the introduction of its Silk Road concept. This concept came from the fact that the Silk Road crossed most of the regions where the brand possessed, and still possesses, counters.
Nowadays, West End Watch Company is active in Saudi Arabia, in the United Arab Emirates, in the Himalaya Range (in particular in Tibet, Nepal and in Bhutan), as well as in the western half of China.
In 2011, West End Watch Company celebrated 125 years of uninterrupted activity, so a commemorative book redrawing the history of the brand was published in 2010 in association with the Centre Jurassien d’Archives et de Recherches Economiques.[3]
At the beginning of the 20th century West End Watch Company launched a model called the Sowar -the cavalryman- named after one of the elite troops of the Indian army. This name was selected in honour of Sir Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) because it is said that he and his soldiers wore West End Watch Company watches during the war. The Sowar model is still manufactured today.
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