{"id":819,"date":"2025-02-02T10:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T09:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/?p=819"},"modified":"2025-02-11T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:10:56","slug":"fhf-fabrique-dhorlogerie-de-fontainemelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"FHF Fabrique d&rsquo;Horlogerie de Fontainemelon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"51\" src=\"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FHF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FHF.jpg 471w, https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FHF-300x32.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le 31 octobre 1793, Isaac et David Benguerel, avec Julien et Fran\u00e7ois Humbert-Droz, fondent une manufacture \u00e0 Fontainemelon sous le nom de Benguerel &amp; Humbert. Le succ\u00e8s de l\u2019entreprise repose sur une production m\u00e9canis\u00e9e moderne, organis\u00e9e sur le mod\u00e8le de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab Japy \u00bb de Beaucourt. D\u00e8s 1797, 120 ouvriers \u00e9taient employ\u00e9s dans l\u2019entreprise. La moiti\u00e9 d\u2019entre eux travaillaient \u00e0 la maison, comme c\u2019\u00e9tait encore courant dans l\u2019industrie horlog\u00e8re \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque. Les produits fabriqu\u00e9s \u00e9taient non seulement des mouvements bruts simples, mais aussi compliqu\u00e9s. Des mouvements \u00e0 r\u00e9p\u00e9tition, des bases d\u2019automates et des mouvements bruts pour le march\u00e9 chinois ont aussi  \u00e9t\u00e9 produits et \u00e9taient achev\u00e9s \u00e0 Fleurier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c0 partir de 1812, l\u2019entreprise est rebaptis\u00e9e Humbert Fr\u00e8res. Quatre ans plus tard, la premi\u00e8re v\u00e9ritable usine sera mise en service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L\u2019entreprise est reprise en 1825 par Jacob Robert-Tissot de la famille Robert. En 1862, la premi\u00e8re machine \u00e0 vapeur a \u00e9t\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e par FHF. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1876,  celle ci sera rebaptis\u00e9e Fabrique d\u2019Horlogerie de Fontainemelon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FHF emploie 400 personnes et produit annuellement 240 000 unit\u00e9s. L\u2019usine horlog\u00e8re de Fontainemelon SA utilise tr\u00e8s t\u00f4t des proc\u00e9d\u00e9s de fabrication m\u00e9canis\u00e9s. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ces techniques de production, modernes pour l\u2019\u00e9poque, FHF est rapidement devenue l\u2019un des plus importants fournisseurs de mouvements bruts du Jura suisse, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de son concurrent fran\u00e7ais Japy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1913, FHF produit 1 million de mouvements et compte plus de 1000 employ\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1926, ETA, AS et FHF participent, avec d\u2019autres soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019Ebauches SA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1950, FHF a introduit le principe de former les arbres et les pignons d\u2019enroulement sur des tours automatiques et a ensuite transf\u00e9r\u00e9 la licence \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Tornos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1955, FHF d\u00e9veloppe des mouvements m\u00e9caniques simples con\u00e7us pour la production de masse, fiables et peu co\u00fbteux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1968,  FHF emploie  plus de 1400 personnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source : Watch-wiki.org<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le 31 octobre 1793, Isaac et David Benguerel, avec Julien et Fran\u00e7ois Humbert-Droz, fondent une manufacture \u00e0 Fontainemelon sous le nom de Benguerel &amp; Humbert. Le succ\u00e8s de l\u2019entreprise repose sur une production m\u00e9canis\u00e9e moderne, organis\u00e9e sur le mod\u00e8le de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab Japy \u00bb de Beaucourt. D\u00e8s 1797, 120 ouvriers \u00e9taient employ\u00e9s dans l\u2019entreprise. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/?p=819\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;FHF Fabrique d&rsquo;Horlogerie de Fontainemelon&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fhf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintage-watches.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}