In the same year, the company received first prize at the International Barcelona Exposition. By 1929, Cyma boasted the biggest workshop in Europe and employed 2,000 people to assemble 4,000 watches a day. The daily production was 150 pieces.Дuring the 1920s, the company was at the forefront of component interchangeability, which enabled its workshops to produce watches on a much bigger scale. By this time, Cyma had established itself as a pioneer in the manufacture of intricate repeater watches, high complications and chronographs. Some 30 years later, the brothers went into partnership with a businessman called Frederic Henri Sandoz who had created a new watch company in Le Locle, another cradle of fine Swiss watchmaking. Indeed, with its ongoing achievements in technical innovation, Cyma was one of the companies that made NeuchГўtel the renowned centre of the watchmaking industry it is today. Inheritors of the horological gene that pervades the Jura, the two brothers Joseph and Theodore Schwob decided in 1862 to set up their own watchmaking company, Cyma, focusing much of their attention on avant-garde mechanical production techniques.

During the 18th century, the efforts of the regionвЂ™s industrious and ingenious inhabitants gradually led to the establishment of fully-fledged workshops for the design and manufacture of watches, and by 1780 watchmaking had developed into a process involving 30 distinct operations. Initially, it was the harshness of the climate in the high valleys of the Jura вЂ“ buried for more than half the year beneath deep snow and frequently cut off from the outside world вЂ“ that gave rise to watchmaking activity during the long winters of isolation.

Cyma pocket watch