Samuel Laubscher was an industrial pioneer. Because his demand for precision could not be realized by hand, the company founder constructed his own machines to produce precision turned parts. Laubscher developed the first machine used to produce watch screws in one operation. A milestone for the development of the watch industry at that time.
Electricity enters the factory. The electricity flows from the newly built power plant in Hagneck, which Samuel Laubscher and his successors had been working for since the construction of the canal. Shortly afterwards, the company builds a telephone line from Biel to Täuffelen at its own expense.
1899The Laubscher brothers patent a lathe with automatic slotting machine. For the first time, a finished screw is produced in a single operation.
1892First mention of a steam engine
1887His five sons Alfred, Numa, Eduard, Adolf and Gottfried and his son-in-law Jakob Laubscher take over the company as a general partnership. Gottfried later leaves the company as a partner and founds his own company.
1883Together with the mechanic Tschopp, Samuel Laubscher develops the first automatic lathe.
1870 - 1882Return to his homeland and construction of the first factory in Täuffelen.
1851 - 1852
Samuel Laubscher founds a precision engineering workshop in Malleray in the Bernese Jura for the manufacture of watch screws.
1846Opening hours
Monday – Thursday:
07.30h – 12.00h, 13.30h – 16.30h
Friday:
07.30h – 12.00h, 13.30h – 16.00h