Its reputation is international. Probably because Yvon Desbiolles relates to the great tradition of wonderful of time passed artisans: watchmakers, goldsmiths, enamellers, of which it has acquired the knowledge as watchmaker-rhabilleur. A qualification demanding that profession which designates a specialist knowing restore life and beauty to watches, clocks, cartels, musical boxes, automata and other precious objects. Only the real specialist is capable of restoring masterpieces.

About that, Yvon Desbiolles stresses "that it is important to do everything or re-do as well as old with identical parts, the absolute respect for the tradition and the time, and the patina, metals, the size, the forms, the cutting, the limage, etc. Restore and maintain the watches and clocks old is to discover the secrets of the past. It is a job or it is necessary a large number of tours of hand and plenty of experience."

A real passion has determined the choice of Yvon Desbiolles descendant of a family where it is watchmaker from generation to generation. Become a master watchmaker requires a vocational training completed, a long and patient search: Yvon Desbiolles first followed the Watchmaking School of Geneva, founded in 1824, he made then of the watchmakers internships with deemed, in Switzerland and abroad, including in London. They conveyed the knowledge of secular traditions several times, stories safeguarded from creation, ingenuity and synonym of perfection. In Britain, Yvon Desbiolles has had the privilege to restore rare coins, see rare, whose chimes, watches with whirlpool, the famous clocks Westminster.

This work highly specialized allows him to participate in the safeguarding of our heritage. To live and to relive beautiful and ancient parts gives him a irreplaceable satisfaction.

A restorer like Yvon Desbiolles, watchmaker-rhabilleur, has undoubtedly, alongside a specialist training, donations individuals, infinitely of perseverance and tenacity. That is why, on entrusts museum pieces, private collections and royal collections. Restore to beautiful measures of the time their function, brightness, respecting each detail and particularity, requires exceptional skills.
The workshop of Yvon Desbiolles fits by its conception in this great tradition, the one who to also made the reputation of artisans famous in Geneva, in the past.