Espace Horologer Vallée de Joux

Espace Horologer Vallée de Joux is a museum located in the village of Le Sentier. The village is famous for watch industry, numerous Swiss watchmakers are based in Le Sentier.

Le Sentier is located in Vallée de Joux, the Jura Mountains, is where it has been recognized as one of the centers of the Swiss watch-making since ancient times.

Exhibition hall of the museum, Espace Horologer Vallée de Joux

Exhibits of the museum

Clock production began to develop in the region and by the 1750s, a number of
workshops was built in Le Sentier. Initially, in the Craft Industry was started as a complement of agriculture, for manufacture the parts of the watch farmers using the fallow period of winter, it was sold to the watchmaker in the Vaud region.

Exhibition hall of the museum

1776, watch-making guild of Vaud region was abolished, watch market as well, vocational training of watchmaker will also be liberalized. Inhabitants of Vallée de Joux will also be working on this new profession gradually, but still, part-time state of agriculture and continued, and thus agriculture watchmaker is born. For over more than a century, the figure will penetrate into this area.

Monitor to assemble the watch

You can try to assemble the elaborate watch on this monitor. I tried and completed it, I’ve got the certificate with the message like this, “Bonjour TERASHIMA MASAYOSHI, Veuillez recevoir en pièce jointe votre certificat personnalisé EHVJ “Assemblage d’un mouvement”. Espace Horloger Vallée de Joux.”