About CHEVAL FRÈRES
INDUSTRIAL PARTNER IN MICROTECHNOLOGY
Industrial expertise focused on innovation
With its long history of industrial creativity, CHEVAL FRÈRES can help you with your technical and aesthetic component needs.
CHEVAL FRÈRES is a renowned manufacturer of watch and jewellery components, combining tradition, innovation and industrial excellence since 1848.
Combining traditional expertise with cutting-edge technologies, CHEVAL FRÈRES offers solutions, materials and functions in partnership with its customers to meet high standards of aesthetic finish.
KEY DATES
175 years of history in luxury watchmaking
Our history as a manufacturer of watch and jewellery components is based on centuries of expertise.
Innovation is at the heart of our business as a manufacturer of technical and aesthetic components for watchmaking and jewellery.
Manufacture of the first watch winder crowns
Development of a hard materials machining department, which today is called HARDEX.
The company focuses on high-end watchmaking.
Integration of HARDEX into the IMI Group.
HARDEX, ceramic division of the IMI Group
Founded in 2006 from the merger between CHEVAL FRÈRES’ hard materials machining department and a ceramic powder forming plant, HARDEX specialises in the manufacture of ceramic parts, from powder to finished product.
With an integrated production line, HARDEX offers products that are perfectly suited to the aesthetic and technical requirements of the most demanding industries.
With thirty years of experience in hard material machining, HARDEX is a key player in the field of high-performance ceramics.
