1725

Josué Robert of La Chaux-de-Fonds receives a watchmaker’s patent from the King of Prussia — the royal foundation from which the house descends.

1787

Louis Courvoisier joins the founding workshop and the firm takes the name J. Robert & Fils, Courvoisier & Cie. The Courvoisier name enters Swiss watchmaking.

1811

The house becomes Courvoisier & Cie under Louis Courvoisier, working from La Chaux-de-Fonds with reach to Geneva and Paris.

1825

Fritz Courvoisier takes the management of the house.

1842

The brothers Henri-Louis and Philippe-Auguste establish Courvoisier Frères. The city of La Chaux-de-Fonds commissions from the house a watch for King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia — described at its making as the thinnest then made.

1848

On 1 March, Fritz Courvoisier leads some thousand volunteers to the Castle of Neuchâtel and declares the republic, ending Prussian princely rule over the canton.

1851

Fritz Courvoisier is appointed a Swiss commissioner for the Great Exhibition of London.

1855

Philippe-Auguste Courvoisier creates a diplomatic watch for the Ottoman court, its case bearing in enamel the Palais de l’Industrie of the Paris Exposition Universelle.

1892

Swiss patent No. 5038: a perfected stem-winding pendant watch — keyless winding being the defining advance of the century.

1899

Swiss patent No. 18129: a time-setting mechanism for Roskopf-type watches.

1903

The Modernista: a patented digital jump-hour with retrograde minutes, marketed internationally.

1905

The Mobilis tourbillon, under patent No. 30 754 and trademark No. 19 062 — the first tourbillon made commercially accessible beyond the ultra-elite.

1905–2010

A century of confirmed production: the Heritage Officer, Art Déco Chronometer, Military Navigator, Retrograde Calendar, Sport Chronograph and Grand Complication Tribute.

1917

A repeating watch by the house enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Object No. 17.101.48).

2019

The Musée International de l’Horlogerie repatriates a Fritz Courvoisier watch with funds of the Canton of Neuchâtel — its work recognised as Swiss heritage.

The present chapter

The Maison continues. Founded 1787, it maintains an unbroken presence in Swiss watchmaking and enters its next chapter under new stewardship.