The Guesthouse has big rooms averaging 35m2 and two apartments (85m2). The exceptional residential qualities allow you to feel well during short and long stays.
Recent research informs that our house, at the time the l’Auberge de la Couronne, was rebuilt in the still warm ashes 1834 after a fire catastrophe.
An all stone construction this time and aligned with a modern city of broad parallel streets promising more safety and more light for the watchmakers working at home. The shards we found during our extended renovation 2012 -2015, served as ballast in one of the floors: testimonies of the tiled stoves.
Le Locle was able to preserve in parts old habits and structures. There is a flock of retailers around the Guesthouse. The people, „Les Loclois“, are surprisingly cosmopolitan: friendly, curious, highly cultured - human traits whjch are typical for border towns, but also for a very long industrial and commercial tradition. Watchindustry has stayed important up to this day.
Our spaces are designed for philosophers. But they serve as well for work retreats.