Post by FHH - Fondation Haute Horlogerie

Last Friday, Aurélie Streit joined a half-day academic symposium at the University of Lausanne on the role of women in watchmaking, held alongside Clock Fiction: La Vallée des horlogères, an exhibition running at Université de Lausanne through May 29. The starting point: a 1749 regulation in the Vallée de Joux that formally confined women to the industry’s least visible tasks, spiral springs, chains, and other “permitted works.” And yet, by the late 19th century, women made up a third of the Swiss watchmaking workforce. By 1930, they held 90% of positions in movement regulation. Their hands shaped the precision that made Swiss watchmaking what it is. Their names are largely absent from the archives. This event, part of the Arc Horloger programme dedicated to safeguarding UNESCO-inscribed watchmaking know-how, brought together historians, researchers and practitioners to look at that gap and begin to fill it. Transmitting the full culture of watchmaking means transmitting all of it. #WomenInWatchmaking #HauteHorlogerie Aurélie Streit, Pascal O. Ravessoud, Emmanuel Schneider, Sarah Duneton Faigaux, Lucas Rochas, Kilyan SALHI DANIELE, Sophien Salah, Anastasia Matthey, Lorenzo Maillard, Maxime Couturier, Raphael Hatem, Julien Baudet, Patrick Monnin, Magali Vionnet, Hideo Kubota, Valentine Gautier, Ivana Bogeski