Pequignet was founded in 1973 by Emile Pequignet in Morteau, a French city in the mountains next to the Swiss border. The brand developed quickly in the 1980s and 1990s, but it has gone through its fair share of ups and downs in its 50 years of history. In the early 2000s, Pequignet initiated the ambitious plan to become an integrated manufacture and the first in-house movement, the Calibre Royal, was presented in 2011. It was followed in 2021 by the Calibre Initial. The same year, Pequignet joined Enowe Excellence, a structure founded by Hugues Souparis in a project to promote French know-how of excellence. With this stable and sustainable shareholder base, the brand now continues its metamorphosis to focus on manufacture movements and…