International Museum of Horology

The International Watch Museum (French Musée international d'horlogerie, abbreviated MIH ) is a museum in the Swiss town of La Chaux -de-Fonds. The subterranean building was erected at the beginning of the 1970s, and is surrounded by a park where a Carillon was erected in 1980. The Watch Museum is owned by the city of La Chaux- de-Fonds and is listed as a national treasure.

The museum is dedicated to the history of time measurement devices. It naturally contains numerous exhibits from Switzerland, such as a Orgeluhr by Pierre Jaquet -Droz, one of the first marine chronometer by Ferdinand Berthoud, several works by Abraham Louis Breguet and an overview of the history of Neuchâtel Pendulum. However, one also Morbier clocks and other examples from the workshop of French masters such as antide Janvier are seen. From Giovanni Dondi a replica of Astrarium, one of the first examples of an astronomical clock is issued.

The museum came in July 2007 for a few days in the headlines when during a burglary nearly all issued watches worth several million Swiss francs were stolen, however, were found two days later under an oak tree in the nearby French Jura again.