Favre Leuba is one of the oldest Swiss watch brands together with Swatch Group’s Blancpain. Everyone knows Blancpain but few remember Favre Leuba which had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s. The descendants of the Favre family sold it in the 1980s, it belonged to LVMH in the 1990s and afterwards successive shareholders never managed to properly resuscitate the brand and make it reach its full potential.
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