The Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre

Manufacture

Based in Switzerland's Vallée de Joux, Jaeger-LeCoultre is one of the few Manufactures to create, develop, decorate and produce every timepiece in its own workshops, with every craft and technology under one roof.

The Vallée de Joux

The Vallée de Joux

High in the Swiss Jura, the calm and serene setting of the Vallée de Joux gave the Manufacture its patience and its precision. Nearly two centuries on, the same valley still shapes every watch.

Before the Manufacture, watchmakers here worked from home, each guarding their own craft secrets. Antoine LeCoultre brought them together under one roof, where 108 crafts still work side by side.

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Over 430 patents and 1,400 calibres. Sound, precision and the heavens: the three complications the Manufacture has made its own.

Antoine LeCoultre (1803–1881)

The story continues

From a family barn in 1833 to the Grande Maison, nearly two centuries of invention.

In 1903, Edmond Jaeger challenged Swiss watchmakers to create an ultra-thin movement. Jacques-David LeCoultre accepted, and in 1937 the two houses became one: Jaeger-LeCoultre.

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