George Dubey, professor of the La Chaux-de-Fonds school, developed a clever device called the Index Mobile at the beginning of the Forties. It carried out the functions of the stop watch of duplicate-seconds by binding the twin hands of the stop watch with a coiled spring.
In 1946, George Dubey and watchmaker Rene Schaldenbrand of comrade officially founded the company Dubey and Chaldenbrand to exploit the Index Mobile and to increase the line of the timepieces.
In 1960, 16 year old Cinette Robert, joined a local supply company as an apprentice of businesses. In 1985, Robert started to gather old movements of watch and became an independent retailer.
George Dubey finished his watch of pocket of the 17th swirl in 1990 and on his retirement in 1995, Robert acquired Dubey and Schaldenbrand watch company with an aim of selling high quality observes in the whole world. Today, more than 5000 timepieces are exported towards 30 countries.
Dubey and Schaldenbrand, sat in the village of Bridge-Of-Martel in the hills of the Jura, maintain its workshops in the Brenets neighbor. The mark specializes in elegant timepieces -- with the cases retro-inspired which are à.la.mode today.
Almost all the timepieces are automatic and much have practical complications -- calendars, great dates, indicators of power-reservation, time zones.
The majority of the movements are gauges of ETA or Valjoux, but Dubey and Chaldenbrand also publishes the limited editions placing the traditional movements which are not any more in the production.
The Dubey and Schaldenbrand watches have all the attributes of value -- fine execution, to name distinctive and rarity.
Dubey and Schaldenbrand watches are especially popular in Asia and Europe, which comprises of about 80 percent of production together. Hong Kong and New York are the largest markets of Dubey and Schaldenbrand.
George Dubey, professor of the La Chaux-de-Fonds school, developed a clever device called the Index Mobile at the beginning of the Forties. It carried out the functions of the stop watch of duplicate-seconds by binding the twin hands of the stop watch with a coiled spring. 