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Valjoux SA was founded in 1901 by the brothers John and Charles Reymond in Les Bioux and until 1929 operated under the name "Reymond Frères SA". The company specialized in chronograph movements. In 1910 it moved to a factory building maintained by the municipality of Les Bioux.

The company's famous column wheel chronograph movement, Calibre 22, debuted in 1914 and lasted in production for sixty years. But it was larger than desirable for wrist watch use. The military, involved in the First World War, required reliable bracelet chronographs. Thereafter the 13-ligne chronograph Calibre 23 and 72 (diameter 29.33 mm, height 5.85 mm) was developed, which in 1916 came to the production stage and soon ticked in the wristwatches of very different manufacturers (for instance Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Rolex, and Vacheron Constantin). The production lasted nearly sixty years, and until 1974 about 125,000 ebauche movements of this type were made.

This 1943 ad shows the range of Valjoux movements produced at this time and features the stylized R logo

Reymond Frères had used the brand "Valjoux" (short for Vallée de Joux) and cursive R (for Reymond) mark as early as 1920. By this time the company was specializing in chronographs, rattrapantes, and shaped movements. By 1923, Reymond was producing complete finished movements in addition to ebauches.

The generational change took place with the name change in 1929: The Reymond's sons Marius and Arnold took over the company, which was called "Valjoux SA" from then on. In the 1930 years the transition from pocket watch to wristwatch movements was performed. In 1944 the incorporation into the Ebauches SA followed, and the primary focus on chronograph movements was retained.

The company has now been entirely absorbed by the Swatch Group, the world's largest watch group. This also expresses in the name of the current calibers, adopted by Valjoux, such as the Valjoux 7750, now called ETA 7750; and similarly for the other chronograph calibers.


ETA 7750 Family

Valjoux 23/72 Family

ETA 7750

ETA 7751

ETA 7753

ETA 7754

ETA 7760

ETA 7761

ETA 7765

ETA 7768

Valjoux 1

Valjoux 18

Valjoux 2 BR

Valjoux 20

Valjoux 22

Valjoux 23 VZ

Valjoux 230

Valjoux 232

Valjoux 234

Valjoux 235

Valjoux 236

Valjoux 237

Valjoux 23C

Valjoux 24 KV

Valjoux 25 SRV

Valjoux 26

Valjoux 3

Valjoux 34

Valjoux 35

Valjoux 5 KVM

Valjoux 54 VB

Valjoux 55 VBR

Valjoux 57

Valjoux 6 KF

Valjoux 61 VBB

Valjoux 69 DX

Valjoux 7

Valjoux 71 GHH

Valjoux 72 VZH

Valjoux 720

Valjoux 724

Valjoux 725

Valjoux 726

Valjoux 729

Valjoux 72c VZHC

Valjoux 730

Valjoux 76

Valjoux 76 R

Valjoux 77 ECO

Valjoux 7730

Valjoux 7733

Valjoux 7740

Valjoux 7741

Valjoux 78 VZSC

Valjoux 8 KL

Valjoux 84

Valjoux 88 VZHCL

Valjoux 886

Valjoux 89 DXC

Valjoux 9 KVR

Valjoux 90 VZSCL

Valjoux 92