Juvenia Slim Mechanical Rare Timepiece

Swiss Made
Circa : 1960

In 1860, Jacques Didisheim, descendant of an Alsatian family and an entrepreneur with a brilliant imagination, founded a watchmaking workshop in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, which he named Juvenia in tribute to his wife. Several years later, the manufacture was re-established in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which offered an ideal location for developing the brand and its activities.

Driven by the unceasing desire for development, Juvenia started to create designs for and produce its own range of extra-flat movements in 1908. Aware of the need to make its own calibers in order to become part of the very small circle of major Swiss watchmaking brands, the company began the process of becoming a manufacture. A boost in technical research allowed Juvenia to present the world's smallest movement to date at the Swiss national exhibition in 1914. It measured 9.5 mm in diameter and 2.5 mm in thickness. In the same year, Juvenia invested in new, modern buildings to help the growth of its industry.

At the dawn of a century of technical and aesthetic research, Juvenia shone a spotlight on elegance and simplicity with the Slim collection, decorated with a sophisticated case and an extra-flat movement. This is an excellently preserved example available for purchase.