In the Boegli family, watchmaking is more than a trade; it is a true passion shared by several generations. In fact, the start of the family’s watchmaking history goes back not less than four generations ago. At the beginning of the XX century, Louis Schwab settled in Moutier to establish a watchmaking factory. In 1904, he created the well-known SWIZA brand and quickly became the leading manufacturer of alarm clocks and travelling clocks. Louis Schwab was not only the boss of a watchmaking factory with nearly 350 employees, but he was also the father of 15 children. After the founder’s death, not each one of them could manage the family firm. That is why, one of the daughters encouraged her husband, Benjamin Boegli, to set up his own company and to move to Grandval, where he would make watch dials, particularly for the Swiza brand. His son Jacques succeeded him and developed the business by supplying dials throughout the world. After a few years, Jacques Boegli decided to go back to his roots and to manufacture complete watches. First, in 1991, he made watches under the brand B-Watch exclusively designed for the tourist market in Switzerland. Then in 1995, passionate about pocket watches, he created the Jacques du Manoir brand and became one of the biggest manufacturers of Swiss pocket watches, with more than 400 different models. It was time then to move the company to its new premises in Moutier. Together with his son, François, he decided to develop more complex watches. Passionate about watchmaking and aware of the fact that the company had returned to Moutier, exactly where a century earlier his great-grandfather had produced his first watches, François Boegli decided to make mechanical musical watches. Over several years, surrounded by a few passionate and keen people, he developed a collection of mechanical pocket watches with musical movement. In order to clearly show their difference from the other watches manufactured by the company, he decided to sign them just with his name: BOEGLI.