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Le Locle (French pronunciation: [lə lɔkl]; German: Luggli) is a municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the third smallest city in Switzerland (in Switzerland a place needs more than 10,000 inhabitants to be considered a city).
BALL's old ad. Webb C. Ball set up "RR Standard" ("RR" for Rail Road) to assure a high accuracy and perfect reading to all railroad employees. He also created the BALL Time Service, an after-sale service to which every employee of the rails had to bring his watch every two weeks to make sure the accuracy and reliability of the watch was maximal.
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning Neuchâtel: 2009 1302; iv (cultural) The two towns are located in the remote Swiss Jura Mountains. Due to poor agricultural land, the towns focused on watchmaking. After devastating fires in the 19th century, both towns were rebuilt to support this single industry.
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Achille Hubert Benoit (1804–1895), French watchmaker, Versailles, director of the royal factory, director of the watchmaking school of Cluses. Heinrich Moser (1805–1874), Swiss watchmaker from Schaffhausen (Switzerland), founder of H. Moser & Cie. Lorenz Bob (1805–1878), German clockmaker, Furtwangen, Schwarzwald.
The reporter noted that Charles' watches weren't for sale. When Greg's father told him about his grandfather, he recounted a story about a Texas oilman who tried to buy the "Allison Mystery Clock."
Some US watchmaking schools of horology will teach not only the Wostep style, including the ETA range of movements, but also focus on the older watches that a modern watchmaker will encounter on a daily basis. In Denmark the apprenticeship lasts four years, with six terms at the Danish School of Watchmaking in Ringsted. The education covers ...
Prior to 1850, watches in America were generally supplied either from England or Switzerland. [1] The idea for the Waltham Watch Company came from watchmaker Aaron Lufkin Dennison. Dennison was the son of a shoemaker, born in Maine in 1812. [2] He served as an apprentice to a jeweler for three years as a youth and had come to Boston in 1833. [2]