1852

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• Constantin Othenin Girard founds the company Girard & Cie. Two years later he marries Marie Perregaux, and from the merger of their names and through collaboration with Henri Perregaux in 1856 arises the manufacture Girard-Perregaux in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
• The American Watch Co. in Waltham Massachusetts is founded