====== Vallée de Joux ======
The **Vallée de Joux** is the famous "Watch Valley" in the [[Swiss]] [[Jura]] and home to many traditional watch [[manufacture]]s.

It is said that due to the high altitude (around 1000 m above sea level) this valley was closed off through the long winter, and the local population could not be engaged in agriculture. Therefore they began making watches. Unlike the [[Jura triangle]] and [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]]/[[Le Locle]] area, which mass-produce many watches, the Vallée de Joux is focused on complications and high-end watchmaking.

The name of the valley corresponds to the lake located here, "Lac de Joux", the largest lake in the Jura Mountains.

Important places in the Vallée de Joux connected with the watchmaking, listed counter-clockwise around the Lac de Joux 

  *Le Lieu
    *[[Dubois Dépraz]]
  *[[Le Solliat]]
    *[[Philippe Dufour]]
  *[[Le Sentier]]
    *[[Jaeger-LeCoultre]] headquarters and manufacture
    *[[Bulgari]] manufacture (formerly [[Daniel Roth]]/[[Gérald Genta]])
    *[[Romain Gauthier]]
    *[[Espace horloger de la Vallée de Joux]], museum
    *[[Ecole Technique de la Vallée de Joux]], school
  *[[Le Brassus]]
    *[[Audemars Piguet]] offices, factory, and [[Hôtel des Horlogers]]
    *[[Patek Philippe]] complication manufacture
    *[[Vacheron Constantin]] manufacture
    *[[Blancpain]] headquarters and Blancpain Manufacture (formerly [[Frédéric Piguet]])
  *[[L'Orient]]
    *[[Breguet|Manufacture Breguet]] (formerly [[Lemania]]/[[Nouvelle Lemania]])
  *[[Les Bioux]]
    *[[ETA]] (formerly [[Valjoux]])
  *[[L'Abbaye]]
    *[[Breguet]] headquarters
    *[[Claude Meylan]]

===== Weblinks =====
  * [[http://www.myvalleedejoux.ch/en/|Vallée de Joux]], offical website


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