Morteau
1 manufacture in this region of France.
1 pin in Morteau. Hover or focus a pin for the brand name; click through for the brand’s catalog page.
Brands in Morteau
Founded 1973 by Émile Pequignet in Morteau — the French-side town across the Jura ridge from Le Locle, with a watchmaking lineage that runs back to a 1680 copy of an imported English watch and supplied the post-war Swiss trade with cross-border labour through the 20th century. The brand installed its own manufacture and launched the in-house Calibre Royal in 2010, making it one of the very few French houses (alongside Cartier’s Paris workshop and a handful of micro-independents) building wristwatch movements on French soil. After a 2012 near-bankruptcy and recapitalisation under Laurent Katz and Philippe Spruch (former LaCie principals), the brand holds the French government’s Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label and produces roughly 1,000 watches per year.