Article dans Worldtempus, L'Express, L'Impartial

Tavannes Watch Co intéresse toute la suisse romande. Après le Journal du Jura, l'article a été repris par L'Express, L'Impartial et Worldtempus. Contrairement aux informations parues dans l'article, Tavannes Watch Co est gérée depuis la suisse, et non depuis les Etats-Unis. Notre bureau de New York s'occupe uniquement de la commercialisation en Amérique du Nord.

Journal du Jura - Article sur Tavannes Watch - Novembre 2010

Tavannes Watch intéresse et intrigue dans le jura bernois. L'article est disponible sur notre site dans les pages PRESSE: http://www.tavanneswatches.com/index.php/tavannes-in-the-press/

Thank you for your additions to our vintage club

Since we've opened our vintage club, where Tavannes Watch Owners can post pictures and the history of their watches (http://www.tavanneswatches.com/index.php/tavannes-vintage-club/), we've got a lot of touching histories as well as fantastic pictures of old Tavannes watches. We'll show you a few from time to time.


Photo credits: Dennis Jaari.


Photo credits: Dennis Jaari.

Photo credits: Catalin-Andrei Teodoru

Photo credits: Phillip MacLeod


Photo credits: Fikret Gorun

14 new Tavannes point of sales in the US

Tavannes is proud to announce that 14 new fine jewellers joined them in october and november and opened a Tavannes Watch Point of Sales in their respective cities. These fine jewellers now carry the Tavannes Watch Brand:
(View them on our online store locator: http://www.tavanneswatches.com/index.php/tavannes-store-locator/)


FLORIDA
Underwood
330 A1A North
Suite 204
Porte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
904-280-1202

Underwood
3617 St Johns Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32205
904-388-5406
Underwood
10300 Southside Blvd
Suite 1520A
Jacksonville, FL 32256
517-278-2488


ILLINOIS
Solari & Huntington
100 Main Street
Park Ridge, IL 60068
847-823-4354

Potter & Anderson
4927 Sheridan Rd
Peoria, IL 61614
309-691-6575


MASSACHUSETTS
Anderson's Jewelers
21 Grove Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
800-337-2029


NORTH CAROLINA
Elizabeth Brun
6401 Morrison Blvd # 17A
Charlotte, NC 28211
704-365-3700

Gemma Gallery
48 Chinquapin Road
Pinehurst, NC 28374
910-295-3010

Wick & Greene Jewelers
121 Patton Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
Phone 828-253-1805


OHIO
Peter Danford
at Fairmount Circle
20609 Fairmount Blvd
Shaker Heights, OH 44118
216-345-6277


PENNSYLVANIA
Carroll's Jewelers
Doylestown Shopping Center
470 N. Main Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
215-345-6277


TENNESSEE
McKenzie
Fine Jewelers
4004 Hillsboro Pike, Suite 105
Nashville,TN. 37215
615-292-2114

Bob Richard's Jewelers
7730 Wolf Run Blvd
Germantown, TN 38138
800-337-2029


WEST VIRGINIA
Williams Jewelers
113 Steele Street
Bridgeport, WV 26330
304-842-7166

Contact them and ask them to show you the Tavannes collections!

10 new fine jewellers join the Tavannes point of sales network

Tavannes has the pleasure to announce that 10 new fine jewellers joined them and opened a Tavannes Watch Point of Sales in the USA. These fine jewellers now carry the Tavannes Watch Brand:
(View them on our online store locator: http://www.tavanneswatches.com/index.php/tavannes-store-locator/)


TEXAS

Pelz Jewelers
1206 E. Grand Avenue
Marshall, TX 75670
903-035-2261

Kubes Jewelers
2700 W. Berry Street
Fort Worth , TX 76109
817-926-2626

Gray's Jewelers
2011 Mall Drive #1
Texarkana, TX 75504
903-793-5588


KANSAS

Marks Jewelers
817 Massachusetts Street
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-843-4266


LOUISIANA

McCary's Jewelers
1409 E. 70th Street Suite 118
Shreveport, LA 71105
318-798-3050


WISCONSIN

Lampone Jewelers
5303 S. 108th Street
Hales Corners, WI 53130
414-529-3515


SOUTH CAROLINA

Trost Jewelers
9902 North Kings Highway
Myrtle Beach, SC 29572
843-692-9018


PENNSILVANIA

Van Scoy Jewelers
2733 Papermill Road Suite X-3
Wyomissing, PA 19610
610-374-9330


NEW YORK

Rizzo Fine Jewelers
305 New Drop Lane
Staten Island, NY 10306
718-987-7260


OHIO

David Fairclough
Fine Jewelers
7141 West Central Avenue
Toledo, OH 43617
419-843-8887

Tavannes Watch History in a youtube movie

Watch exciting images of the Tavannes Watch manufacturer from 1891 to 2010 showing the first models made by TWCo, the watches for the kings, some specialty models like the Belt-Watch, the machine developments as well as some new collections just released.

Enjoy!

Watch full size here: http://www.youtube.com/TavannesWatchCo

Visit the new Tavannes Watch website

Our web development team is proud to present you the new Tavannes Watch Co website. You can read about our history, browse through the collections and contact us via the webform. http://www.tavanneswatches.com/


We also have create a good-looking store locator where you can find your nearest Tavannes Watch fine Jeweller. And in case you don't have an official Tavannes Jeweller near you, you can order your watch online.



Since the burning of the main Tavannes Watch building in the 1940, we have lost all archives in the fire. We have thought of a great way to recreated them by asking you, the Tavannes Watch owners, to add pictures and a short text with the history of your watch. After a while, we will open these archives to the public.

Enjoy and let us know your comment! You can watch some pictures of the team that launched the website on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TavannesWatchCo

your Tavannes Watch Co team

http://www.tavanneswatches.com/

Have a look at this beautiful miniature painting of the american bald eagle. The painting took over 100 hours of work and was made by Sandra Niculescu last month. It will go on sale on http://www.tavanneswatches.com in a few days.
This is a unique piece for collectors. Enjoy the details views of the eye, or the feathers. A magnificent work!

A piece of history is back to it's roots - Fokker E IV Watch from Tavannes

It is our pleasure to welcome back a beautiful timepiece made in 1915 for the german airforce officiers flying a Fokker E IV in the first world war. This watch still works fine. We are at this time considering painting a new limited edition of this plane on enamel, on the dial of a new watch for the 2011 collection.

Thank you to Petr Watch in Ukraine for the pictures and the watch.

Tavannes Watch Co History

Tavannes Watch Co - The watch manufacturer's history

1891
In 1891 a young, talented master watchmaker, Henri-Frédéric Sandoz, founded the Tavannes Watch Company in a small Swiss village, Tavannes, in the Jura mountains. He and his partners, who were rich fabric merchants, soon opened markets around the world, notably in Canada, Russia, United States, and the Far East.

1902
It was during this time that watches were becoming popular. Industrialization and the expansion of the railroad system made a standardized time necessary. The United Kingdom, in 1884, set its time to Greenwich Mean Time and it really established the watch business as we know it today.

1903
At the beginning of the new century, The Tavannes Watch Company had to expand and build a new factory.

1905
By 1905, the 750 employees produced 450’000 watches and the production grew very fast to reach 750’000 pieces made by 950 employees in 1909.

1910
Thanks to its constant innovation, Tavannes Watch Co won the Gold Medal at the Grand Prix de Bruxelles in 1910.

1915
The company’s 20th-century product range naturally included wristwatches of the most diverse character for example the shock-proof models with a protective cover over the fragile crystal glasses that were issued to soldiers in 1915.

1923
Henri-Frédéric Sandoz was a real entrepreneur. His visits to American manufacturers inspired him, and he was the first to create machine tools exclusively for the Swiss watch industry. Tavannes became an important Swiss watch company because of his engineering abilities.

1930
At the end of the twenties and beginning of the thirties, Tavannes Watch Co created new kind of watches like “La Captive” or the Belt-Watch, which consisted of completely new concepts at that time. These were followed by “waterproof” wristwatches, as well as wrist-chronographs equipped with Valjoux movements.

1938
In half a century, Tavannes built five factories in Switzerland, and became the fourth largest watch manufacturer in the world. At that time they employed over 2,000 skilled watchmakers and produced over 4,000 watches a day.

1940
A huge fire destroyed several buildings of the factory as well as most of the archives.

1943
In 1943 the company launched its first automatic movement, the caliber 420, with a swinging arm winding in one direction. This movement was fitted into the square cased « Watersport » model, for example. The Tavannes Watch Co Distributor Network was based out of the whole world.

1950
With over 300 patents obtained for mechanical and automatic timepieces, Tavannes was producing movements for most of the famous Swiss brands. Many of these innovations are still used today.

1955-1957
Around 1957, the “Autorotor” self-winding caliber 485 was launched. It’s now a collector’s item.

1966
In 1966, Tavannes Watch Co continued to sell movements to other watch brands until 1982 and then concentrated in the production of specialized numeric command machines (Tavannes machines) for the watch industry.

2008
Rebirth of the Tavannes Watch Co, which comes back with a new generation of watches, greater, more reliable and more perfect. Several collections, limited editions as well as a few rare unique pieces.

2011
This will be the year of the launch of a unique new concept based on a historic piece of Tavannes Watch.