#Le coultre memodate pocketwatch archive#
His children, particularly Henri Favre-Leuba, who assumed leadership of the family business in 1908 and remained president of the board of directors until his death in 1961 - relocated the company headquarters to Geneva and continued to steadily grow the brand.įavre-Leuba Soldat Mondphase - Image Favre-Leuba archive Furthermore, the brand participated under his direction in national and international exhibitions and received numerous awards for its pioneering watches. In 18, he travelled to India and launched his brand as the first Swiss watch manufacturer in the subcontinent, which was to quickly develop into an important market for Favre-Leuba. Henry-Auguste, Frédéric Favre’s son and thereby the fourth generation of the watchmaker family, joined forces in 1815 with the watch business of Auguste Leuba from Buttes in Val-de-Travers and traveled around the world - from Germany to Russia, through Cuba to New York, from Brazil to Chile - to establish their own workshop’s finely-made pocket watches in distant markets.įritz Favre, who married Adele-Fanny Leuba in 1855 and subsequently used the double surname Favre-Leuba, proved himself a worthy successor to his father Henry-Auguste and successfully pursued his expansion strategy in Europe, America, and Asia. On October 13th, 1792, the younger torchbearer, together with his sons Frederic and Henry-Louis, founded the company ‘A. The passion for his craft, the constant pursuit of technical and aesthetic improvements, and the will to seize new market opportunities to grow the family business was passed on by the dedicated patron, who died at the age of 88 in 1790, to his son, also named as Abraham. With his own workshop, he laid the foundation for a company that was soon renowned worldwide and, far into the 20th century, was to be headed by eight generations of the Favre family.
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The 35-year-old who came from a long-established, respected family, began his watchmaker apprenticeship in 1718 and was appointed ‘Maitre horloger du Locle’ (master watchmaker of Locle) around 1749. A sensation on the watch market - but only one of the many achievements of a brand whose founders had, more than two centuries prior, set their sights on defying the norms and developing ingenious watches that would function flawlessly and reliably under any climatic condition and in every conceivable situation.įavre-Leuba is a brand whose history started on March 18th, 1737, when the watchmaking workshop of Abraham Favre was first mentioned in an official document in Le Locle - the birthplace of Swiss watchmaking in the present day canton of Neuchatel. As the world's first mechanical wristwatch with an aneroid barometer for altimetry and air pressure measurement, this tlmekeeper was an obvious and an ideal instrument for all pioneers. Their watch: The Bivouac by Favre-Leuba.Īfter its launch in 1962, the Bivouac ranked among the indispensable companion of those who conquered frontiers in the high altitudes. The two daredevils: Genevan mountain guide Michel Vaucher and Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti. 1963 Favre-Leuba Bivouac - Image Favre-Leuba archive
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