Louis Elisée Piguet : six générations d'horlogers de la Vallée de Joux / écrit par Fritz Von Osterhausen ; éd. et réal. par Jacques Frédéric Piguet et Estelle Hofer Piguet.

This book could have been called "From Jacques Piguet to Jacques Piguet". No less than six generations of watchmakers separate the first, a peasant watchmaker born in 1720, from the second, boss of the company Frédéric Piguet SA until 1995. A richly documented testimony to the memory of these generations of Piguet who have worked, with their movements, in the shadow of the greatest watch brands producing some of the most complicated timepieces in the world. From the history of the first watchmakers to the detailed description of what is probably the longest line of watchmakers. A veritable journey back in time where the peasant watchmakers of the Vallée de Joux were at the origin of some of the most complicated movements in the world. [back cover]

History of watchmaking in Switzerland and more precisely in the Vallée de Joux (the precursors, the Piguet families before Louis Elisée Piguet, the work of the latter (life, inventions, lessons drawn from the "great manufacturing book"; the successors and descendants (Henri-Louis, Frédéric and Jacques) Appendices: Appendix J: Genealogical tree of Piguet and allied watchmakers Appendix F: Watchmakers established in the Vallée de Joux in 1895.

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Monograph on the life and oevre of watchmaker Louis Elisee Piguet and his successors in the Valle de Joux