However, the Favre-Leuba family was forced to sell the company's name in 1985 due to the ongoing quartz crisis, which made manufacturing watches more difficult.

Abraham Favre had always concentrated on improving the technology of his watches, their properties at different temperatures, and the materials used in watchmaking to make more reliable and accurate movements.

[5] Around 1925, Favre-Leuba produced a single button chronograph and created the original model of the Reverso watch,[4] which was designed to withstand polo games, in the late 1930s.

The new FL251 caliber, an extra-flat, twin-barrel with a central second hand and a power reserve of 50 hours, was launched in 1962,[3] along with the hand-winding wristwatch, Bivouac, which was the first ever mechanical watch with an altimeter and an aneroid barometer.

[7] Paul-Emile Victor was one of the first to wear this piece during his Antarctica expedition,[2] while Michel Vaucher and Walter Bonatti used the watch when they summited the Grandes Jorasses in the Alps.

[11] The same year the Bathy was released, Favre-Leuba added an automatic winding to its double-barrel calibers, making it one of the first brands to use this combination in production.

[20] In 2017, the former Japanese ambassador of Favre-Leuba, Sayuri Kinoshita,[21] broke the world record of a constant no fin dive at the Vertical Blue competition.

[23][24] With Ballinger's expedition, the Raider Bivouac 9000 set a record as the only mechanical wristwatch equipped with an aneroid barometer to work on Mount Everest.