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Letterbox plaques — La Chaux-de-Fonds
Letterbox and doorbell plates for La Chaux-de-Fonds — a town built on a grid, and cold enough to matter.
La Chaux-de-Fonds was rebuilt on a strict grid for the watchmaking industry, and its housing reflects it: long parallel streets of similar apartment buildings, put up in a few decades for workshop families. The letterboxes inside them are therefore remarkably consistent from one street to the next, which is unusual in Switzerland and makes our job easier — once we have the model of one bank, we can quote a second building on the same street with confidence.
What this changes for the plate
The town sits high for a Swiss city and its winters are among the hardest on the Plateau. That rules out acrylic on any exterior plate — repeated frost embrittles it and a screw hole opens up by spring. Brushed stainless steel or brass, and nothing else outdoors.
Why buildings here choose SwissPlaques
- Consistent letterbox models across the grid streets
- Metal only for exterior plates
- Second building on the same street quoted quickly
Questions
Can you quote a whole street?
If the buildings share a letterbox model, yes — send us one photograph per building and we quote them together, which brings the whole set into volume pricing.