Although watches have been fabricated in Geneva since the 16th century, watchmaking in the canton of Vaud only developed from the 17th century onwards. Watchmaking in Vaud was based in Nyon, Rolle, Morges, Lausanne, Vevey and Moudon, where a hundred or so watchmakers made movements destined to be terminated in the metropolis of Geneva. The Vaudois were only able to...
More InfoThe acquisition of city freedoms outside the Vallée de Joux gives only a very imperfect view of the migrations of the Meylan family. This is because the great majority of Meylans retained their freedoms of the villages of the district of Combiers – principally le Lieu and le Chenit – where the family’s origins are to be found. There are two reasons...
More InfoEach of us would like to have before him he who decided one day, for the good of humanity, to measure the passing of time. He, to whom we owe it to go to bed early in evening in order to get up on time in the morning. And yet this individual, or rather this collection of individuals, is not to blame. Addressing only the real need to foresee events, each of them...
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