Vallée de Joux watches
References in the Grail Atlas catalog made in the Vallée de Joux.
The Vallée de Joux is an alpine cleft about ninety minutes north of Geneva by car, snowed-in for half the year and historically too high to farm through the winter. The farming families who held its land worked watches in the off-season, and by the late 18th century the valley had become one of the densest concentrations of horological skill in Europe. Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Blancpain all keep their manufactures here; the Vallée's suppliers, escapements, hairsprings, finishing, fan out from the same handful of villages (Le Sentier, Le Brassus, Le Lieu) and feed much of the haute-horlogerie trade beyond.
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