1797 - Edouard Bovet is born in Fleurier. He is the son of a master watchmaker Jean-Frederic Bovet.

1814 - Edouard Bovet completes his watchmaking apprenticeship and leaves Fleurier with his brothers Alphonse and Frédéric for London, at the time one of Europe’s leading watchmaking cities but more importantly a major trading centre for clocks and watches.

1818 - Edouard Bovet leaves London on April 20th on board of the Orwell, a vessel operated by the East India Company. He arrives on the 16th of August in Canton where he very quickly sells four watches for the sum of 10,000 francs, the equivalent of one million dollars in our day.

1822 - Edouard Bovet, living in Canton, creates with his brothers Alphonse and Frédéric who remained in London, and also with his third brother Gustave, a watchmaker in Fleurier, a general partnership with a view to trading in watches with China. The first bill of sale of the BOVET Company written in London bears the date 1st May 1822. Faced with a rapid growth in business, the company transfers its manufacturing centre to Fleurier.