Cimier

Montres Cimier SA[1] is an independent Swiss watch manufacturer whose headquarters is in Biel, Switzerland.

Since the beginning, Joseph Lapanouse specialised in manufacturing pin-pallet watches, called Roskopf.

[3] In the 1950s, the company, that became in the meantime Lapoanouse-Cimier SA, industrialized the first pin-pallet escapement chronograph sold at 21 million pieces during its lifetime.

[4] At the end of the 1960s the annual production reached 1.5 million pieces and the company employed over 500 people in Bubendorf.

The concept allowed customers to create and build their own watch in Cimier's workshop.