Manufacture royale

Short description: Swiss luxury watch brand

Manufacture Royale

Type| Privately held company
Industry| Watchmaking
Founded| 1770
Founder| Voltaire
Headquarters|

Vallorbe

Switzerland

Products| Wristwatches
Website| www.manufacture-royale.com

Manufacture Royale is a Switzerland luxury watch brand. Founded in the eighteenth century, the brand was revived in 2010.[1] [2]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Watches
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

In 1770, philosopher Voltaire supports the establishment of watchmaking workshops in Ferney-Voltaire near Geneva and Manufacture Royale is established. It is then an important producer of timepieces and the famous Jean-Antoine Lépine, clockmaker to the king, is one of its watchmakers.[3][4] Manufacture Royale also made objets d'art such as table watches. The Manufacture gently disappeared in the vicissitude of time but was revived in 2010. Manufacture Royale was bought by the Gouten family in 2013 and Alexis Gouten took over the management

## Watches

Modern watches of the brand are complicated Haute Horlogerie, manufactured in-house. The first models were tourbillon watches and a minute repeater.[5] It was followed by the Androgyne, 1770 and voltige collections. The brand has been manage by Alexis Gouten.

## See also

List of watch manufacturers

## References

1. ↑ Robb Report, 5 independent watchmakers you need to know about
2. ↑ Monochrome-Watches, The Manufacture Royale 1770 Voltige
3. ↑ Watcharound, Voltaire l'horloger
4. ↑ Watchonista, Manufacture Royale
5. ↑ The New York Times, Bringing old watch brands out of obscurity

## External links

* Roberta Naas, Forbes, Manufacture Royale Voltige
* The Watches TV, Introduction to Manufacture Royale

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