Cabrer joyeros

Around 1900, Francesc Cabrer was already repairing and manufacturing clocks, as well as selling sewing machines and carrying out the maintenance of the large machinery of the shoe factories in Inca.

Interestingly, in 1920, the Town Council of Pollença ordered a clock for the bell tower from Düsseldorf (Germany), but when a technician came from there to assemble it, it did not fit. In the end, the German technician left without installing the clock and it was Francesc Cabrer who assembled it and modified the machinery for the clock to have four dials, one for each of the façades of the bell tower so that the whole town of Pollença could see the time from wherever they were. The clock was finally inaugurated in 1921 and this year it will be one hundred years old.

Francesc Cabrer’s son continued the family business as a clockmaker and in the 1950s he also began to introduce jewellery that he made himself.

Today, siblings Francesc, Magdalena and Francesca Cabrer Vicens, the third generation of the family, run the business. Francesc studied the art of watchmaking in Switzerland and Barcelona. His mother, Margalida Vicens, also worked until she died at the age of 90. The current owner says that what he likes most is the fact that the customers know the whole family and that there is even someone who still knew his grandfather and, therefore, are older in the house than they are, which is something to be thankful for.