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• 18:32, 19 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Emile Meyer (Created page with "Emile Meyer (1859-1935) was a businessman involved in watchmaking, chiefly in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the late 19th and early 20th century. His watchmaking and sales business, Blum & Frères Meyer, was a major force around the turn of the century and Meyer made his mark as representative, and later secretary, of the Société Suisse des Spiraux. Emile Meyer was born on January 18, 1859, in Canton Neuchâtel. His legal birth address was La Chaux-de-Fonds, b...")
• 16:18, 18 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Société Suisse des Spiraux (Created page with "Société Suisse des Spiraux (SSS) is a balance spring factory created by major Swiss watch manufacturers to compete with the cartel known as Fabriques de Spiraux Réunies (FSR). The group succeeded in building a competitive factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds and producing springs for their own use, blunting the impact of the cartel. ==Establishment== When the five largest makers of balance springs in Switzerland came together as a cartel to contr...")
• 21:16, 17 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Borle et Jéquier (Created page with "Borle et Jéquier was a balance spring maker in Fleurier set up to provide an alternative to the Fabriques de Spiraux Rèunies (FSR) cartel. The company was established in June 1896, less than a year after FSR was announced, and lasted until 1932. Borle et Jéquier was created to provide an alternative to the Fabriques de Spiraux Rèunies (FSR) cartel which controlled the balance spring industry since 1895. The company was founded by...")
• 18:47, 17 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Montandon-Lütz (Created page with "Lse. Montandon-Lütz et Fils was a maker of balance springs in Geneva in the late 19th century. The company was likely founded by Adolphe Montandon-Lütz and his brother Jean. ==Timeline== * 1878 - L. Montandon-Lütz & Cie, maker of balance springs, receives a silver medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris * 1880 - L. Montandon-Lutz & Fils advertises itself as successor to J.-C. Lutz & Fils and is located at Chantepoulet 9 in Geneva as a maker of harden...")
• 18:46, 17 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Baehni Frères (Redirected page to Baehni) Tag: New redirect
• 18:46, 17 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Rivenc-Paquet & Sandoz (Redirected page to Sandoz Spiraux) Tag: New redirect
• 18:26, 17 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Julien-Albert Courvoisier-Clément (Created page with "Julien-Albert Courvoisier-Clément was a maker of balance springs in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the late 19th century. ==Timeline== * 1871 - March 15 - Julien-Albert Courvoisier-Clément is born in Neuchâtel * 1889 - a business survey shows Julien-Albert Courvoisier-Clément as proprietor of J. A. Courvoisier of La Chaux-de-Fonds; the company's business was fabrication of balance springs and the office is Rue Daniel JeanRichard 19 * 1894 - J.-A. Courvoisier regi...")
• 14:14, 17 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Chronology of Watchmaking (Created page with "* 1766 - Antide Janvier, born in St-Claude, composes at the age of fourteen a celestial sphere received with praise by the Academy of Sciences of Besançon. * 1768 - F. Berthoud submits his new theory of balance spring isochronism. * 1770 - J.-Ant. Lépine presented Louis XV with a so-called astronomical repeater, with equation and perpetual calendar. * 1773 - Experiments by F. Berthoud on the effect of temperature variations. * 1775 (...")
• 12:56, 17 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page C.-A. Paillard (Created page with "Charles-A. Paillard was a watchmaker who investigated the properties of stainless steel and palladium balance springs in the 19th century. Paillard experimented extensively with stainless steel as a balance spring material in the 1870s and regularly corresponded with other watchmakers on the subject. A series of letters and publications beginning in 1877 in Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie involved Paillard, Crausaz, and Moritz Grossmann, John Huguenin, Marc Gl...")
• 12:52, 16 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Dufaux Lutz (Created page with "The Geneva balance spring factory of Dufaux Lutz et Fils was founded by Emma Dufaux (1824-?), daughter of J.-S. Lutz (1800-1864). The company would take the name of Charles Dufaux in the 1890s and was a founding member of the FSR cartel in 1895. Category:FSR Category:Geneva")
• 13:52, 14 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Jacques Nardin (Created page with "Jacques Nardin was a 20th century watchmaker. Grandson of Ulysse Nardin, Jacques was head of Doxa. Son of Paul-David Nardin and grandson of Ulysse Nardin, founder of the Nardin chronometer factory in Le Locle, Jacques Nardin was born in 1891. He worked alongside his brothers before marrying the daughter of Georges Ducommon, founder of the Doxa watch factory. He soon became director of that factory. Jacques Nardin was very active within t...")
• 02:57, 14 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Sandoz Spiraux (Created page with "Páquet and Rivenc 1845 ==Timeline== * 1875 - G. Sandoz at Rue St-Pierre 12 is first listed as a watchmaking workshop * 1877 - Rivenc-Paquet is first listed as a maker of balance springs at Rue des Philosophes in Geneva * 1879 - G. Sandoz is listed as a depot for Rivenc balance springs; it is located at Rue St-Pierre 12 in La Chaux-de-Fonds * 1880 - Fr. Nicoud at St-Pierre 12 in La Chaux-de-Fonds is listed as a depot for "spiraux-trempes Rivenc-Paquet,...")
• 19:40, 12 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Huguenin-Girard (Created page with "Huguenin-Girard was a maker of balance springs in the 19th century. It was one of the five companies that combined in 1895 to form a cartel to corner the production of these springs, Société des Fabriques de Spiraux Réunies (FSR). ==Timeline== * 1883 - The firm of J. Huguenin-Girard is noted in a survey of existing businesses; the company was run by Jules Henri Huguenin of Le Locle who lived in La Chaux-de-Fonds, with Charles Perrin a...")
• 04:05, 12 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Société des Fabriques de Spiraux Réunies (Redirected page to FSR) Tag: New redirect
• 03:29, 12 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Guye et Cie (Created page with "==Chronology== * 1883 - March 24 - Philippe Guye of Geneva, and Auguste Guye and Fritz Guye of London (all three from Côte-aux-Fées) registered their previously-existing general partnership known as P. & A. Guye of Geneva; this was a watch or clock factory with offices at Place Cornavin 17, Geneva and Boy Court , Ludgate-Hill, London; the manager was Eugène Louis Roessinger of Geneva. * 1888 - July 30 - The partnership P. & A. Guye of Geneva and London was di...")
• 07:07, 10 March 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page FSR (Created page with "Société des Fabriques de Spiraux Rèunies (FSR) was founded in 1895 as a cartel to control the manufacture of balance springs. The company incorporated the five major producers at that time, buying out the others, and becoming the sole maker of these critical components for a few years. Although competing factories and technology changes soon brought new competition, FSR remained a major concern for decades. It was incorporated into ASUAG in 1932, a...")
• 12:26, 13 September 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page Swiss substitution cypher to L'Information Horlogère Suisse cypher
• 18:29, 3 August 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page Peseux to Fabrique d'Ebauches de Peseux
• 18:42, 28 July 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page Nouvelle Fabrique Tavannes to Nouvelle Fabrique de Tavannes
• 20:09, 22 July 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page Moutier-Grandval to Moutier
• 20:11, 21 July 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page Fabrique d'Horlogerie de Sonceboz to Fabrique d'Ebauches de Sonceboz
• 18:24, 20 July 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page Fabrique d'ébauches Vénus to Fabrique d'Ébauches Vénus
• 18:12, 20 July 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page Venus to Fabrique d'ébauches Vénus
• 17:48, 20 July 2022 Sfoskett talk contribs moved page List of Ebauche factories to List of ebauche factories
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