News At Breguet, major investment has been undertaken at the Vallée de Joux site to maintain and develop the company's tradition of simplicity and luxury watchmaking. The new manufactory that recently opened its doors features exceptional resources commensurate with the sector's main activities: from the manufacture of components to design and the production of movements, its modern facilities offer a guarantee of original, superior quality products. In a perfect combination of watchmaking tradition and advanced technology, man and machine come together in a modern, hi-tech and friendly environment. Although the design, measuring and inspection equipment relies on the very latest technologies, Breguet's artisan watchmakers have retained their wooden benches and sets of hand tools.
This highly sophisticated manufacturing base houses a series of immutable and timeless workshops that plunge master watchmakers into a world of silence and concentration, punctuated now and then by the characteristic whistle of the spirit lamp, used skilfully to blue the distinctive Breguet hands, or the discreet scratching sound of the diamond tip, dexterously employed to polish a tourbillon part.
August 28, 2003
