Manufacture royale

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]}

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

External links

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

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