Culture · 8D | 7N
Chocolate, Cheese & Watchmaking
The three things Switzerland actually makes: a Broc chocolate factory, a Gruyère dairy at the morning make, and a watchmaking atelier in the Jura where you assemble a movement.
- Best time
- June to September; December to March for snow
- Route
- Zürich · Gruyères · Vallée de Joux · Lucerne
Day by day
8 days, planned in full
The three things Switzerland actually makes: a Broc chocolate factory, a Gruyère dairy at the morning make, and a watchmaking atelier in the Jura where you assemble a movement.
Day 1
Arrive in Zürich
Into the old town, and an evening at the Landesmuseum for the long version of how a federation of cantons ended up here.
- Night
- Zürich
- Meals
- Dinner
Day 2
Zürich's guilds and the Beyer clock museum
The guild houses on the Limmat, then a basement collection of 500 years of timekeeping under a Bahnhofstrasse shop.
- Night
- Zürich
- Meals
- Breakfast
Day 3
West to Gruyères
Three hours to a walled hilltop village of one street, with a castle at the end of it and a farmhouse inn below the walls.
- Night
- Gruyères
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 4
The dairy, and the chocolate
At the Gruyère dairy for the six o'clock make, when the curd is cut, then Broc for Cailler's factory and a fondue lunch after.
- Night
- Gruyères
- Meals
- Breakfast, lunch
Day 5
Into the Jura
North to the Vallée de Joux, the cold high valley where complicated watchmaking was invented because the farms froze in winter.
- Night
- Vallée de Joux
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 6
Assemble a movement
A full day at an independent atelier: escapement theory in the morning, and assembling and regulating a mechanical movement in the afternoon.
- Night
- Vallée de Joux
- Meals
- Breakfast, lunch
Day 7
East to Lucerne
Across the Mittelland to the lake, with an afternoon at the Rosengart collection's Picassos and Klees, and dinner on the water.
- Night
- Lucerne
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 8
Fly home
The direct train from Lucerne to Zürich airport, an hour and ten minutes.
- Meals
- Breakfast
What's included
- 7 nights in boutique hotels and a restored farmhouse inn
- Return economy airfare and an 8-day Swiss Travel Pass
- Gruyère dairy early make, Cailler factory and Beyer museum entries
- Full-day watchmaking workshop at an independent Jura atelier
- Fondue lunch at Gruyères and a vigneron dinner in Lucerne
- Landesmuseum and Rosengart collection entries
- Daily breakfast, three dinners and two lunches
Not included
- Schengen visa fees
- Meals not named in the itinerary
- Travel insurance
- The movement you assemble, if you choose to keep it
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