Montres DeWitt SA

Montres DeWitt is a Swiss Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie founded by Jérôme de Witt in 2003. The family-run business is headed by Jérôme de Witt and his wife Viviane de Witt, CEO. The company headquarters are located in Meyrin, Geneva.

DeWitt is a fully-fledged watch Manufacture that is both independent and self-sufficient in terms of production, where high-end watch movements are produced and developed by hand.

History

The DeWitt Manufacture was founded in 2003 by Jérôme de Witt, a direct descendant of emperors and kings in Europe, including such illustrious ancestors as the Emperor Napoléon and King Jerome of Westphalia, with the closest relative being King Léopold II of Belgium, his great-grandfather. Hi is also related to Marie Clotilde Bonaparte, a French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty.

More than 400 timepiece models and dozens of patents have been created in the ensuing 11 years since its foundation.

The DeWitt Museum

Located at the company headquarters, it displays one of the world’s largest collections of tools with over 250 objects, the DeWitt Museum retraces almost three centuries of hand-crafted watchmaking.

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