Vaud-Jura Arc
7 manufactures in this region of Switzerland.
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Brands in Vaud-Jura Arc
Founded 2002 by Denis Flageollet and David Zanetta in Sainte-Croix, a Jura watchmaking town historically associated with the music-box and mechanical-curiosity trades. Production is roughly 200 watches per year; the brand’s in-house calibers, articulated-lug case construction, and heat-blued titanium signatures sit it inside the modern haute-horlogerie independent conversation.
Founded 1980 in Nyon (Canton Vaud) by Carlo Crocco. Jean-Claude Biver revived the brand in 2004 and launched the Big Bang in 2005, establishing the Art of Fusion platform combining precious metals with rubber, titanium, carbon, and ceramic. LVMH acquired Hublot in 2008. The Nyon manufacture produces in-house movements including the UNICO flyback chronograph caliber.
Founded 1929 in Le Noirmont, in the Franches-Montagnes of the Swiss Jura. The brand states 1929 as its founding year, the year Louis Erard’s watchmaking school opened; production under his own name followed from 1931.
Founded 1975 (parent company Desco von Schulthess dates to 1889). The Saignelegier manufacture in the Swiss Jura produces all in-house complications for the Masterpiece line: Seconde Mysterieuse, Calendrier Retrogrades, Gravity tourbillon. Commercial HQ in Zurich. Swiss-owned and independent. The Aikon (2016) became the commercial engine; Masterpiece sustains technical credibility.
Founded in 2017 by Gaël Petermann and Florian Bédat, who met at the Geneva watchmaking school in 2007 and worked together in Switzerland and Germany before starting their own house in a workshop near Lausanne. Reference 1967 (2020) and Reference 2941 (2022) are the two watches the brand has released so far, both entirely developed and finished in-house.
Independent workshop in Le Noirmont, in the Jura's Franches-Montagnes district. The Régulateur à détente RP1 is Raúl Pagès's debut watch: an in-house pivoted detent escapement with an anti-tripping system, made at roughly 4–5 pieces a year. Won the inaugural Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives in 2024.
Vianney Halter set up his own company, Janvier SA, in Sainte-Croix in 1994, and launched his eponymous collection in 1998 with the Antiqua Perpetual Calendar; he is one of the founding figures of the modern independent movement. The workshop shares the town with De Bethune. The Deep Space Tourbillon is a triple-axis central tourbillon (40-second, 6-minute, and 30-minute rotation periods) in a titanium case, limited to a maximum of 3 pieces a year.