Original Vintage Marvin Wrist Watch Buckle,1940s Inside Dimension: 14 mm Juvenia In 1860, Jacques Didsheim, the descendant of an industrious Alsacian family, set up in the nearby town of Saint-Imier a watch company he called Juvenia. After a short stay in Geneva, Juvenia settled definitively in La Chaux-de-Fonds. From the start, its founder's imagination and innovative drive marked both the style and the technical design of Juvenia watches. The company's archives for the 1870's and 1880's note the production and sale of timepieces with cylinder escapements and key winding systems. New designs with a winding stem, then with a lever escapement, gradually appeared. Steady improvements in movement design let to ever slimmer and smaller calibers. Juvenia was in fact one of the first Swiss manufacturers to supply those practical wristwatches, alongside the domestic and elaborately decorated enamel clocks rounding out the collection. Juvenia began making its own proprietary movements blanks, or ebauches, in 1908, turning out series of extra-thin movements which it fitted mainly in its elegant pocket watches. At the 1914 Swiss National Exhibition, Juvenia displayed the smallest watch movement without superimposed mechanism; only 2.5mm thin and 9.5mm across. A new factory was also inaugurated that year at rue de la Paix 101, in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The company made a point of presenting its finest designs at all manner of exhibitions and trade fairs, garnering a variety of prizes and distinctions including the grand prize of the 1925 Arts Decoratif's Exhibition in Paris. At the time, Juvenia agents sailed the seven seas, opening representative offices in India, in Asia and Latin America. In 1945, Juvenia introduced its Arithmo design, a wristwatch equipped with a slide rule that is the direct ancestor of today's instrument watches. During the 1950's and 1960's, Juvenia's "Slim" and of course famous "Mystere" lines added to its reputation for inspired creativity. Today as ever, Juvenia remains one of the great names of horological aesthetics. Every design that leaves its La Chaux-de-Fonds workshops bears the stamp of the company's personality, style and prestige. Ever since 1860 after all, Juvenia has remained without any interruption whatsoever one of the industry's leading exponents of luxury watch design. Few watch makers can claim the same impressive manufacturing continuity.