SA under his direction before his death in 1913. Between 18 he registered 39 patents for improvements to watches in his own name, and a further 11 were registered by the Tavannes Watch Co. Henri-Frédéric Sandoz was a prolific inventor. īy 1905, the 750 employees produced 450’000 watches and the production grew very fast to reach 750’000 pieces made by 950 employees in 1909. TWC employs 470 people and produces 953 watches per day. It had to expand and build a new factory. The United Kingdom, in 1884, set its time to Greenwich Mean Time and it really established the watch business as we know it today.
Industrialization and the expansion of the railroad system made a standardized time necessary. It was during this time that watches were becoming popular. Undervelier - Tavannes Watch Co is building a watch case factory at the entrance to the Pichoux gorges. The Tavannes Watch Co, already in 1896, at the National Exhibition in Geneva, was one of the rare watch manufacturers to achieve vertical integration almost complete: from the manufacture of the machine tool to the production of the complete watch. NovemFiling of the brands Tavannes Watch Co, La Tavannes, T.W.Co, Obi, léna, Azow, Kama, Dvina, watches, watch parts, cases and packaging. Įntry of Tavannes Watch Co, manufacture and sale of watches - founded on - in the Swiss Trade Register. He and his partners, Schwob Frères, soon opened markets around the world, notably in Canada, Russia, United States, and the Far East. In 1891 a young, talented master watchmaker, Henri-Frédéric Sandoz, founded the Tavannes Watch Company in a small Swiss village, Tavannes, in the Jura mountains. In 1880, looking for land to expand his activities, Henri-Frédéric Sandoz ran into Georges Favre-Jacot, patron of Zenith watches, and therefore had to emigrate to be able to develop his know-how. Henri Frédéric Sandoz took part in the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition.
Henri-Frédéric Sandoz created the Henri Sandoz & Fils company, Sandoz focused on the production of mechanical watches and expanded it to include repeater watches. He very quickly became aware of the progress of American production, which worked on the assembly line by using machine tools to manufacture timepieces. In 1869, Henri-Frédéric Sandoz started his own business as a caster and manufacturer of spring-stamps. At the age of 13, he began an apprenticeship in Samuel Aubert's casing workshop Henri-Frédéric Sandoz was born in Le Locle on March 5, 1851. Tavannes Watch Co is a Swiss watch brand, established in 1891 by Henri Sandoz in Tavannes, Switzerland.
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