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ReugeMusic boxes with 36-, 72- and 144-note movements, with traditional or contemporary design
Music Box and Reuge have almost became synonymous over decades. Reuge is a small-scale craftmanship company whose first workshop was establisehd in Switzerland in 1865 by Charles Reuge.
Reuge has around 70 employees, and has positioned itself as market leader on high end music boxes with 36-, 72- and 144 -note movements, singing bird cages and boxes, and watchmaking (musical pocket watches with or without automaton, musical wristwatches and alarm clocks)
Slogan: "The Art of Mechanical Music".
Reuge proposes three collections :
1865 : Long-established line that pays tribute to the great tradition of the music box, singing birds and watchmaking
Lounge : Line of contemporary products designed to suit today's style of interior design
Studio : This line is a laboratory of conceptual objects with strong aesthetic and cultural values
The History of Reuge:
1865 Charles Reuge, a watchmaker from the Val-de-Travers, moves to Sainte-Croix and begins making pocket watches with musical movements.
1886 The son of Charles Reuge, Albert, opens a music box “counter” in Sainte-Croix. We then evolve from a basic workshop to a real company.
1929 The third generation of the Reuge dynasty, Guido, Albert and Henri, invents the Kandahar ski binding, which helps the company overcome the war and the economic crisis.
1930 Building of the Reuge factory, rue des Rasses in Sainte-Croix, still in use today for the manufacture of Reuge musical boxes .
1960 Acquisition and manufacturing by Reuge of the first machines, which allow the rationalization of the labor.
Guido begins again the manufacturing of large musical pieces, persuaded that the music box movements has a future in the luxury gift market.
Reuge becomes world leader in the deluxe musical movements.
Reuge buys Bontems in Paris, and takes over the manufacturing and the marketing of the mechanical singing birds.
2000 Reuge buys its main box supplier, Arte Intarsio, in Italy, and from now on controls the complete manufacturing process of the music box movements. |  |
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