• The Watch Museum of Le Locle (French: Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle) is a municipal museum specializing in horology, located in Le Locle, Canton of Neuchâtel...
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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...
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    has superior accuracy at far lesser costs. In 2009, the Watch Museum of Le Locle renewed the tradition and launched a new chronometry contest based on...
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    Frères of Le Locle. Patent number 443555 published 2 May 1927. The patent was also applied in England and Switzerland in 1927. It consisted of a watch contained...
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  • Ulysse Nardin (category Le Locle)
    Ulysse Nardin SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaking company founded in 1846 in Le Locle, Switzerland. The company became known for manufacturing highly accurate...
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    of 1779, Abraham-Louis Breguet became aware of Perrelet's watches, probably through Louis Recordon, who travelled from Geneva to London via Le Locle and...
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    Chronometry (redirect from Watch museum)
    Switzerland, at La Chaux-de-Fonds, and at Le Locle. In France, Besançon has the Musée du Temps (Museum of Time) in the historic Palais Grenvelle. In...
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    The Musée des beaux-arts du Locle (MBAL – Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle), located in the canton of Neuchâtel in the Switzerland, organizes temporary exhibitions...
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    is a type of pendant watch in the shape of a small ball or sphere originating from Geneva, (Switzerland). The dial is usually at the bottom of the sphere...
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  • competitions ended with the advent of the quartz watch movement, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2009, the Watch Museum of Le Locle has launched a new chronometry...
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    the British Museum, the German Clock Museum, the International Museum of Horology, the Musée d'Horlogerie of Le Locle (Switzerland), the Musée d'art et d'histoire...
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    House. 1916 Fritz Zbinden House, Erlach. 1916 Administrative building, Le Locle. 1917 Abattoir, Challuy and Garchizy. 1917 Workers housing, near Dieppe...
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    Francois; Cardinale, Catherine (1993). Museums of Horology - La Chaux-de-Fons - Le Locle. Zurich: Swiss Institute of Art Research. p. 128. ISBN 3-908184-33-9...
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    and Le Locle, its sister city, were jointly awarded UNESCO World Heritage status for their exceptional universal value. The watch-making cities of La Chaux-de-Fonds...
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  • smaller Le Locle (Neuchâtel region), Perret had conceptualized the company as Universal Watch in 1894 with classmate Numa-Emile Descombes, both of whom were...
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    made up of a long valley, home to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle and La Brévine. Neuchâtel was one of the first cantons in Switzerland to grant women the...
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  • watchmaker, Le Locle, pocket watch, tourbillon. Jules Jürgensen (1745–1811), Danish watchmaker and manufacturer, Le Locle, pocket watch, longcase clock...
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    more imposing villa in the nearby village of Le Locle for a wealthy watch manufacturer, Georges Favre-Jacot. Le Corbusier designed the new house in less...
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  • (/tʊərˈbɪljən/; French: [tuʁbijɔ̃] "whirlwind") is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement to increase accuracy. Conceived by the British watchmaker and...
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    National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia PA, the Musée international d'horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds and the Musée d'horlogerie in Le Locle (both in...
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    subsidiary of the Zenith group from Le Locle, Switzerland. It was established in Besançon to manufacture watch parts and employed up to 150 people, many of whom...
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    Andreas Strehler (category Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland)
    Watchmakers' School in Solothurn. After graduation, he began his first job in Le Locle at Renaud & Papi SA which today belongs to Audemars Piguet as Audemars...
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  • Greubel Forsey (category Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland)
    Chronometry Competition held by the Le Locle Museum of Horology. Hand Made 1 was awarded the prize for best Men’s Complication Watch at the 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie...
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    Ferdinand Berthoud (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    M. Jeanneret and J.-H. Bonhôte, Biographie neuchâteloise, volume 1, Le Locle, Eugène Courvoisier, 1863, p. 32–45. Bruno de Dinechin, Duhamel du Monceau...
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    Pierre Jaquet-Droz (category People from Le Locle)
    firm sell watches and mechanical caged songbirds. The Jaquet Droz luxury watch brand is now owned by The Swatch Group. Constructed between 1768 and 1774...
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    Don Carlos (category Cultural depictions of Ana de Mendoza y de Silva, Princess of Éboli)
    by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos, Infante of Spain) by Friedrich Schiller. In...
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    answer the question. Biel/Bienne is located near the watch-making cities of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, which together form a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
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    also the heartland of the celebrated Swiss watchmaking industry, centered on the once-famous towns of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, which both rely heavily...
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    Automaton (category History of robotics)
    Cardinal, Catherine; Mercier, François (1993). Museums of horology La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle. Geneva: Banque Paribas. ISBN 9783908184348. Montiel...
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    des Beaux Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland Les Nouveaux Encyclopédistes Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia Watching You Watching Me, Museum für Fotografie...
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