Across the road from Chopard in Fleurier is the small workshop of Michel Parmigiani.
Chopard is an official sponsor of the festival and also makes its top award, the Palme d'Or.
You can see high mech up close at Chopard's factory in Fleurier, a two-hour drive from Geneva.
Last Friday, thieves stole jewels by Swiss jewellers Chopard from the Novotel hotel.
Chopard bauble earrings and a reversed necklace worn down the back anchored the look from slipping into fairytale saccharine.
Since 1998, when Chopard was enlisted to redesign the event's trophy, the company has crafted the award in its workshops.
Chopard, owned by the Scheufele family since 1963, is still best known for jewelry and women's watches, but it is trying hard to change that.
"The majority of the jewels belong to the company Chopard, but it seems some are owned by other private persons, we have no detailed inventory yet, " he said.
Designed by Caroline Scheufele, co-president and artistic director of the House of Chopard, the collection features big diamond pieces along with delicate colored gem works set in 18k gold.
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Chopard, which is an official sponsor of the festival, has provided the Palme d'Or trophy awarded to the director of the best feature film for the past 15 years.
"I analyzed the business in 1995, and the only thing to do was to create our own movement and be recognized as a manufacture, " says Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, the fourth-generation scion vice president of Chopard.
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No detailed description has yet been given of the stolen jewels, but a Chopard spokeswoman said they were not part of the firm's "Red Carpet Collection 2013" and were not due to be worn by any actresses in Cannes.
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