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Joel Pynson
January 2025
1. Creation in La Chaux-de-Fonds
Léopold Vittori and his wife Rosa founded Vittori et Co. Fabrique de montres Dolmy in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1919 [1]. Dolmy watches were good quality anchor watches, marketed under several brand names, some with chronometer certification.
1928
Probably as a result of the crisis of the late 1920s, Léopold Vittori took over the company C. Meyer-Graber, Fabrique Sélection, a specialist in economic Roskopf watches in La Chaux-de-Fonds, whose head, Constant Meyer-Graber, had recently died [2].
The company became Léopold Vittori, successor to C. Meyer-Gruber, Fabrique Selection Watch.
1904
In 1933 Fabrique Sélection was integrated into Dolmy, which became Vittori et Cie, Fabrique de Montres Dolmy, Montre Sélection [3]. André Vittori joins the company.
2. White Star and Dolmy
Sadly, Léopold and Rosa Vittori died in 1953, and André in 1954. The company was then taken over by Philippe Weiss, who ran the Fabrique White Star in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and renamed it Montre Dolmy SA [4], with the aim of developing the manufacture of economical Roskopf watches.
White Star and Dolmy remained two separate entities. Dolmy then claimed to have been created in 1899, which in fact corresponds to the creation of the C. Meyer-Graber.
1957
Alongside men's and ladies' watches, Dolmy began producing sports counters in the late 1960s. This diversification was a success.
1969
1975
White Star went bankrupt in 1979, but Philippe Weiss continued to manage Dolmy, which continued to produce counters and chronographs, and even watches under the White Star brand.
Philippe Weiss died in 1987, and it was Jean-Pierre Weiss who continued Dolmy's activities, still specializing in counters and chronographs, until 2009, the year of his death [5].
1992
See also: White Star, Selection
[1] FOSC 1919
[2] FOSC 1929
[3] FOSC 1933
[4] FOSC 1954
[5] FOSC 2009
The FOSC (Feuille Officielle Suisse du Commerce) is available on E-periodica
Notes: Concerning Time To Tell: Time To Tell has one of the largest private digitized databases on the history of Swiss watchmaking, with over 2.3 TB of data on more than 1,000 Swiss watch manufacturers. This database has been built up over a period of some thirty years, and continues to be fed with around 50 to 100 GB of data every year. The database is made up of old documents, mainly Swiss trade journals, dating from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Most of these documents are not available on the Internet. Historical articles published on the time2tell.com website always cite the sources used.
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