FIVE GENERATIONS PRECISION AND PASSION FOR SPRINGS

• 1894

  Samuel Feller creates a small workshop in Bienne to produce flat strip wires for various industrial uses. Five years later, the company moves to Büren an der Aare.
• 1926

  Paul Feller takes over the company from his father and continues to manage it along similar lines.
• 1940

  Anna Feller marries Walter Schwab, a farmer’s son from Oberwil bei Büren, who was always more interested in business than farming. He joins his father-in-law’s company.
• 1946

  Walter Schwab-Feller takes over the company from his father-in-law and lays the foundations for the good relations with the watch industry.
• 1970

  Klaus Schwab, the son of Walter and Anna Schwab-Feller, joins the company and manufactures springs in large quantities for the Roskopf watchmakers.
• 1984

  Klaus Schwab and his wife Heidi take over the management of the family business. They experience – and overcome – the watch industry crisis: Even although “not a single person” is buying mechanical watches any more due to the quartz boom, and the demand for springs is collapsing, the Schwabs maintain their faith in the continued existence of mechanical watch making and start producing top quality springs for luxury watches. With the growing popularity of mechanical watches as a lifestyle accessory and the recovery of the watch industry, the business becomes successful again.
• 2002

  The Schwab’s son, Stefan, assumes control of the business. He prepares the company to face the future by implementing new production techniques, an ERP solution and a company policy which is based even more on working together with the most important market partners.
• 2015

  Key customers (Rolex, Patek Philippe and the Richemont Group) take a stake in Schwab-Feller AG.
• 2017

  Schwab-Feller AG employs 50 staff.
• 2020

  S. Schwab hands over operational management to A. Fischer, but remains with the company as President and Delegate of the Board of Directors.