Yesterday, 27 June, Eberhard & Co. inaugurated its museum in the historic building in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which was built by the founder Georges-Lucien Eberhard at the beginning of the last century and which has been a UNESCO-protected site for ten years, exactly since 27 June 2009. On the occasion of this anniversary, a significant selection of the brand's historical heritage was exhibited for the first time in a specially created location. A collection of timepieces that spans the entire span of Eberhard's production and has been collected over the decades: from pocket watches to the first wrist chronographs, soon to be enriched by the most precious complications, the smallest and most elegant women's timepieces, then other men's models that were always sporty and technically evolved such as the divers of the 1950s, up to the most current collections and the premiere of the new EB140 calibre. Including the numerous patents registered by Eberhard & Co. throughout its long history. The Museum's inauguration ceremony also meant, for the Maison, the symbolic return of the Eagle to the top of the building's dome, after a lengthy restoration operation that returned it to its original state. The new Eberhard & Co. Museum will become part of the "open manufactures" circuit during the ninth "Biennale du Patrimoine Horloger" scheduled for next November, an event of great appeal to those passionate about fine watchmaking.
