Watches of the Vallée de Joux. Many of these can be bought at a discount on this website. Click on the links above for information on individual brands. History of Time - according to Blancpain. Blancpain - Sticks and bones.

Watches of the Vallée de Joux. Jaeger le Coultre Patek Philippe. Despite being orphaned at a very early age, Jean-François Bautte was a determined young man. He was apprenticed successively as a case-fitter, engine-turner, watchmaker and goldsmith, and at the same time completed his education. In 1791, at the age of 19, he put his name to his first watches. This date marks the birth of GIRARD-PERREGAUX. Constant Girard founded Girard and Cie. Two years later, he married Marie Perregaux and, from the .

Watches of the Vallée de Joux. Jaeger le Coultre Patek Philippe. Jaeger le Coultre Patek Philippe. In the middle of the 18th Century, in the city of Geneva, a young man called Jean-Marc Vacheron decided to open his own watch-making workshop. This exceptional craftsman founded a business that was to become, two and a half centuries later, one of the most renowned in the science of time.