Maison Gabus
A primary-source reference for the Gabus name in watchmaking. Three documented enterprises — W. Gabus of Imperial Moscow, Gabus Frères of Le Locle, and Gabus-Guinand of Les Brenets — and the family collection held today.
Three Independent Houses
Gabus was never one company, but three — W. Gabus of Moscow and Gabus-Guinand of Les Brenets were founded by paternal half-brothers, Louis William and Georges-John Gabus; Gabus Frères of Le Locle was founded by their first cousin, Georges Gabus, whose cases reached some of Swiss horology’s best-known maisons.
W. Gabus / В. ГАБЮ
Founded by Louis William Gabus of Le Locle at age twenty-one. Operated as a Moscow retail and repair house, stocking watches — including Patek Philippe — for officers’ societies, merchant associations, and consumer cooperatives across the city. William died in 1901; the firm continued through the 1917 Revolution.
Gabus Frères
Cases carrying the firm’s Hammerhead №141 are documented on watches by Rolex, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Longines, with further attributions across a dozen Swiss houses rated by evidence on the №141 register — casework from ultra-thin construction to secure movement fixation without visible fasteners.
Gabus-Guinand
Workshop on Grande Rue with bilingual French/Cyrillic signage. Founder Georges-John Gabus was the paternal half-brother of Louis William Gabus of Moscow. The Gabus and Guinand families had been intertwined at Les Brenets since at least 1714; Georges-John’s own marriage into the Guinand family gave this house its name.
The cases remain. Near or far, one family. One name. Gabus.