Switzerland
| Bernhard Schlegel | −1374 (Bâle) |
| François Tabazan | −1624 (Geneva) |
| Baltzer Mengis | ~1652 (Lucerne) |
| Christoph Mengis | – 1653 (Schwyz) |
| Christoph II. Mengis | 1653–1681 (Schwyz) |
| Johannes Mengis | 1681–1695 (Schwyz) |
| Balthasar Mengis | 1695–1723 (Schwyz) |
| Vollmar family | 1695- (Saint-Gall) |
| ? Deigentesch | ~1716 (Fribourg) |
| Bernhard Mengis | 1723- (Schwyz) |
| ? Mengis | – 1779 (Schwyz) |
| ? Vollmer | ~1782 (Glarus) |
| Johann Melchior Grossholz | −1815 (Schwyz) |
| ? Vollmer | 20ies of the 19th century (Zurique) |
| Augustin Grossholz | 1815–1826 (Schwyz) |
| Franz Grossholz | 1822– (Zug) |
| Joseph Pickel | 1826–1829 (Schwyz) |
| Oswald Schlumpf | 1829–1830 (Schwyz) |
| Franz Xaver Schmid | 1830–1855 (Schwyz, Zug and Glarus) |
| Theodor Mengis) | 1839–1918 (Bern and Rheinfelden) |
| Johann Bettenmann | 1855–1857 (Schwyz and Saint-Gall) |
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“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)