Minerva Watches

The elite Minerva watch company was founded in 1858 by Charles-Yvan Robert and Hyppolite Robert of Villeret, who built the company that would eventually become the Minerva Watch brand in 1887. In 1902, under the leadership of C. Robert's sons, Charles-Auguste and Georges-Louis, Minerva became a manufacturer of watches in their own engineering workshops.

In 1901, The earliest Minerva wristwatch was manufactured, but the watch company's greatest success came in 1923 with the introduction the No. 20, a caliber timepiece that perfectly illustrates the classic and refined architecture of wrist chronographs of that era, with a column-wheel mechanism, a Breguet balance-spring and 17 jewels. With the launch of this prestigious watch, the company earned its reputation as a manufacturer of complicated movements of exceptional quality, and the rest is history.

Minerva was responsible In 1936 for time-keeping in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and in the years after WWII, the Minerva watch company developed a full range of mechanical movements, notably the movements made by Ebauches S.A.

The company continued its success and celebrated its 125th anniversary In 1983 with the introduction of an electronic master clock, the MCT 125, which sustained and commemorated the spirit and tradition of the master watchmakers of bygone eras, adding to the caliber of the Minerva name.

In 1988, the Minerva watch company exceeded everyone’s expectations by producing the "Tablier" watch, one of the most aesthetically subtle creations in the history of watch making, followed by the most complex watch ever made by Minerva watches---a full analogue calendar and a "negative" type moon phase indicator.

Today, Minerva watches are admired by all who see and wear them, and are a welcome addition for the most affluent wardrobe.

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