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Why choose Bodet Time

Leader in time displays and bell systems

For more than 40 years, Bodet Time has been designing analogue clocks, digital clocks, and station clocks in France. Multiple styles of clocks are installed in schools, healthcare institutions, industrial environments, stations, and airports. Bodet Time is also the specialist for speakers and microphones. Bodet Time equips schools in France and abroad with bell systems to broadcast lockdown alerts in the event of major incidents. Their audio systems can also play a bell, melody or voice message to set a pattern for a school day or inform factory workers.

THE BODET GROUP

Bodet Time’s business

Bodet Time designs and manufactures a wide range of products in four business areas:

  • Time synchronisation: master clocks, time servers
  • Clocks: analogue clocks, LED digital clocks, LCD digital clocks
  • Audio systems: speakers, microphones
  • LED displays: fuel prices on fuel station poles
Bodet-clockmaking

Bodet clockmaking: expertise, quality, and innovation

  • Tradition: Bodet is a family business passed down from generation to generation since 1868. The 5th generation joined the management in 2016.
  • Made in France: all our clocks are fully designed and manufactured in France at our production site in Trémentines: design office, plastics, metalwork, assembly workshop, etc.
  • Innovation: this is the company’s DNA, the key to its success since 1868. Each year, Bodet invests 10% of its revenue in R&D.
Bodet Time - 100% FRENCH know-how

100% FRENCH know-how

Since its creation, the Bodet group has been a French group that has never stopped innovating. With a surface area of 14,000 m2, we design and manufacture our products at our sites in Trémentines and Cholet, which house:

  • the head office and its management, human resources, administration, accounting and IT departments.
  • the technical division with its R&D, customer support, quality, purchasing and marketing departments.
  • the historical production centre comprising the metal, paint, carpentry, plastics, electronics and assembly workshops.

Thanks to the integration of this know-how, we can guarantee all our customers consistent product quality.

Solid expertise acquired over time

  • 1868
     
    First tower clock installed timeline-1868-paul-bodet
  • 1974
     
    Start of the industrial clockmaking business with flip clocks.timeline-1975-industrial-clock-systems
  • 1978
     
    First Bodet electronic master clock.timeline-1975-industrial-clock-systems
  • 1984
     
    Launch of electronic display modules for fuel prices.timeline-1987-time-and-attendance-management
  • 1994
     
    SNCF train stations are fitted with the famous Profil TGV (formerly known as the BT TGV).timeline-1997-ISO-9001-certification
  • 1995
     
    Birth of Profil: a customisable (indoor/outdoor) analogue clock.timeline-1997-ISO-9001-certification
  • 1997
     
    For the first time, the CA15 – the first Bodet speaker – broadcasts class bells.timeline-1997-ISO-9001-certification
  • 2001
     
    Launch of the new LCD clock by Bodet: Cristalys.timeline-2002-bodet-Switzerland-subsidiary
  • 2005
     
    HF wireless time synchronisation is patented and standardised.timeline-2010-bodet-Netherlands-subsidiary
  • 2006
     
    Launch of Melodys, an HF audio solution for lockdown set up.SIGMA Master Clock
  • 2014
     
    Release of the Harmonys range, a complete IP sound system (bells, lockdown, microphone, etc.).timeline-2011-ISO-14001-certification
  • 2016
     
    The famous Style watch is entirely redesigned.timeline-2014-harmonys
  • 2017
     
    Launch of Netsilon, the time server for IT networks.timeline-2011-ISO-14001-certification
  • 2018
     
    To celebrate its 150th anniversary, Bodet creates a watch that combines tradition and innovation.timeline-2018-150-years

Bodet Time’s partners


cfhmlogonoir

French chamber of watchmaking and microtechnology (CFHM)

Anjou

Economic expansion committee of
Maine-et-Loire

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French national
sign association (SYNAFEL)

proavia logo

French technology for airports and aviation safety

cholet logo

Town of Cholet

GLT

Girard le Temps

Mécène et Loire

Mécène et Loire Foundation

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The Train Industry & Innovation

Bodet Time, Leader in time displays and bell systems


Our customers trust us, why not you?

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Leader for more
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High
Quality
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A dedicated
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Made in
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