Ernest Francillon (1834 – 3 April 1900) was the Swiss manager of Longines watches and an entrepreneur. He was the nephew of Auguste Agassiz.[citation needed]
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Francillon was born in Lausanne in 1834.[1] He studied in his birth town, Vevey and Stuttgart. He subsequently became an apprentice watchmaker in Val-de-Travers.[2] He founded the Longines company in 1866.[3] During the final decades of the 19th century he set up a modern watch factory and undertook action to remain competative against producers in the United States.[4]
He died on 3 April 1900 in Saint-Imier, where he founded the factory. A monument to his memory was erected on 13 October 1907.[citation needed]
References edit
- ^ Eitel, F. (2018). Anarchistische Uhrmacher in der Schweiz: Mikrohistorische Globalgeschichte zu den Anfängen der anarchistischen Bewegung im 19. Jahrhundert. Histoire (in German). transcript Verlag. p. 121. ISBN 978-3-8394-3931-9. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ^ Staub, W.; Hinderberger, A. (1944). Die Schweiz und die Forschung: eine Würdigung schweizerischen Schaffens. Die Schweiz und die Forschung: eine Würdigung schweizerischen Schaffens (in German). H. Huber. p. 110. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ^ Birksted, J. (2009). Le Corbusier and the Occult. MIT Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-262-02648-2. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ^ Gutmann, M. (2019). Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity. Springer International Publishing. p. 176. ISBN 978-3-030-26090-3. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
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