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Switzerland: Thierry Fisher, Jeremy Frelechox, Axel Leuenberger, Mehmet Korutürk La Chaux-de-Fonds: Private: Romain Gauthier: 2002 Romain Gauthier Le Sentier and Vallée de Joux: Romain Gauthier Ronda (watchmaker) 1944 [3] Lausen [3] William Mosset [3] Lausen: 1,400 Rotary Watches: 1895 La Chaux-de-Fonds: Moise Dreyfuss Elm Yard, 13-16 Elm ...
The "Watch Valley" covers all the Swiss Jura Arc, from Geneva to Basel, and is the primary location of the Swiss watch-making industry.Beginning initially in 15th century Geneva, the cradle of the European time keeping industry, and spreading north east through the Jura Mountains, the great majority of the companies related to the Swiss watch-making industry were first established.
German and French are both official languages of Biel/Bienne, which is the largest bilingual city in Switzerland. In 2020, when asked specifically about the two official languages, 32,154 residents (56.8% of the population) mentioned German as their principal language, while 24,376 (43.2%) mentioned French.
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François Constantin. The business was founded in 1755 by Jean-Marc Vacheron, an independent watchmaker in Geneva, Switzerland. [1] [15] [16] He was a close friend of leading Enlightenment philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire due to their common interests in philosophy, science and watchmaking.
IWC factory in Schaffhausen. In 1869 F.A. Jones rented the first factory premises in an industrial building owned by J.H. Moser at the Rheinstrasse. Having to rent further rooms in the Oberhaus By 1874 plans were already being made for a new factory and a site was purchased from Moser's hydroelectric company.
The company was founded in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, moving to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve the quartz crisis threatening the traditional Swiss watchmaking industry. [2] [3] [4] The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and employs about 31,000 people in 50 countries. [5]
At the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix, the Piaget 1967 watch was awarded the “Design Watch Prize” in 2002 [21] and the Altiplano XL watch won the “Ultra-Flat Watch Prize” in 2003. [ 22 ] At the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix, Piaget were awarded the Ladies’ Jewellery Watch Prize in 2006, for their Limelight Party model.