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• 21:37, 9 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page La Concorde (Created page with "La Concorde was the name used in the early 20th century for the Le Locle-based assortiment factory established in 1850 by the Huguenin brothers that became the foundation for Nivarox-FAR. In 1850, the brothers William Huguenin and Charles-Louis Huguenin came from La Brévine to settle in Le Locle to produce assortiments for watches. Their earliest products included the anchor and escape wheel needed to produce watches. After his d...")
• 17:39, 9 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Nivarox SA (Redirected page to Nivarox) Tag: New redirect
• 03:12, 9 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Pierre Renggli (Created page with "Pierre Renggli (1926-[[]]) was chairman of ASUAG from 1972 through Pierre Renggli was born on July 14, 1926, in Bienne. Renggli completed his primary and secondary studies in his native town before attending the universities of Bern and Paris. A doctor of law and a lawyer, he took an early interest in watchmaking. His father, Paul Renggli, had followed a similar career trajectory and was president of ASUAG from 1935 through 1962. At...")
• 02:46, 9 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Théodore Renfer (Created page with "Théodore Renfer (1897-) was president of ASUAG from 1955 through 1971. Born on December 19, 1897 in Bienne, Théodore Renfer Renfer handed over the presidency of ASUAG to Pierre Renggli in 1971 at the age of 73. The two had worked closely together since 1968. For a few more years, he continued to sit on the board of directors of several holding companies and devoted his attention to major financial problems. Théodore Renfer m...")
• 22:11, 8 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Paul Renggli (Created page with "Paul Renggli (1886-1978) was a notable figure in the Swiss watchmaking industry who made significant contributions to the economy and the horological field. Paul Albert Renggli was born about 1886 and lived to be 92 years of age. Paul Renggli began his professional career as a lawyer, practicing at the well-known law firm of Mes Moll and Renggli. However, his passion for industry and innovation led him to explore opportunities beyond the legal realm. In 1...")
• 12:53, 4 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Category:Biography V (Created page with "Category:Biography")
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• 12:49, 4 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Category:Biography H (Created page with "Category:Biography")
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• 12:47, 4 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Category:Biography B (Created page with "Category:Biography")
• 12:46, 4 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Category:Biography M (Created page with "Category:Biography")
• 12:46, 4 May 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Category:Biography D (Created page with "Category:Biography")
• 21:37, 25 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Meier & Giroud (Created page with "Meier & Giroud was a maker of assortiments in Bienne from 1924 through its takeover by FAR in 1933, at which time it was absorbed into "Branch E" of the cartel. ==History== The company was founded for the manufacture and sale of anchor assortments and related items in 1924 as Meier, Giroud & Cie. It was established in Bienne as a limited partnership with two unlimited partners, Alwin Meier and Adhémar Giroud, and Hans Trösch as...")
• 21:19, 25 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Adhémar Giroud (Created page with "Adhémar Giroud (1885-1956) founded an assortiment factory in Bienne and was a founding member of FAR. Adhémar Giroud was born in Le Locle in 1885. In 1922, Giroud founded an assortiment factory in Bienne. When Fabriques d'Assortiments Réunies was founded, Giroud was made director of the Bienne branch, which was consolidated at his factory. Giroud retired in 1951 and died in April 1956. Category:Biography G Cat...")
• 13:38, 24 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Reinhard Straumann (Created page with "Reinhard Straumann (1892-1967) was a Swiss engineer and inventor who made significant contributions to the field of precision engineering and watchmaking. ==Early Live== Reinhard Straumann was born on November 3, 1892 in Bennwil, Switzerland, to Reinhard Straumann, a teacher, and Anna Heinimann. He spent his early years in Waldenburg, where his father was later elected as a teacher, and was closely associated with that town throughout his life. He atten...")
• 13:19, 24 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Paul Pingeon (Created page with "Paul-Louis Pingeon (1907-1963) was a founder and director of Nivarox SA in Saint-Imier. ==Biography== Paul-Louis Pingeon was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1907 and studied watchmaking at the technical school there. After graduating he moved to Geneva and Schramberg to work before returning to his home region and settling in Saint-Imier. When Le Locle industrialist Georges Perrenoud took over the Saint-Imier spring factory...")
• 20:34, 22 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Gaston Schwarz (Created page with "Gaston Schwarz (1893-1952) was the founder of Sultana Watch Company, a board member of Le Phare and Astin, and inherited a share of Schwarz-Etienne. Paul Gaston Schwarz was born on September 23, 1893 in Renan, Canton Berne, Switzerland. He showed aptitude for business at a young age, and his father, founder of the Schwarz-Etienne watch company, taught him the ropes. He married Marguerite Laubscher, who survived him, and had two su...")
• 20:07, 21 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Georges Perrenoud (Created page with " Georges-Alfred Perrenoud was born on September 22, 1885, in La Sagne, Switzerland. After taking over his family's assortiments business in Le Locle, Perrenoud rose to become one of the most important industrialists of the town. He is best remembered as the owner of Dixi machine tools, though he also initiated the creation of FAR and owned Zénith for a time. ==Obituary== Perrenoud's first venture was with his family's assortiment busine...")
• 18:15, 20 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Marguerite Gallay (Created page with "Marguerite Gallay was a watchmaker who managed the Gallay assortiment factory in Le Sentier in the 1930s. Marguerite Gallay was the daughter of John-Henri Gallay, maker of assortiments in Le Sentier. After his death, Marguerite managed the company along with her brother Georges Gallay. On November 16, 1933, the Gallay factory became Branch D of the Fabriques d'Assortiments Réunies. Marguerite and Georges Gallay remained on as managers and the f...")
• 13:36, 19 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Werner Ruch (Created page with "Werner Ruch (1899-1952) was the namesake and founder of the spring maker W. Ruch & Cie of Saint-Imier. Werner Ruch was born around 1899 in Mitloedi, but the Ruch family relocated to Saint-Imier before 1923. Ruch married Jacqueline née Guenat. Together with his father Albert Ruch (son of Abraham Ruch), Werner Ruch founded a spiral spring factory in Saint-Imier on August 12, 1929. The company avoided competing with the balan...")
• 13:17, 19 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page To Do List (Created page with "==People to investigate== ===Bankers=== * Henri Cuenat * Paul-Ernest Mosimann * Peter Obrecht * Émile Juillard senior * Paul Lardon * Maurice Savoye * Édouard Tissot-Daguette * Jean Gabus * Louis Gaillard * Édouard Petitpierre * Charles Seinet * Ernst Scherz * Émile Juillard junior * Georges Gabus-Savoye")
• 13:03, 19 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Louis-Edmond Gagnebin (Created page with "Louis-Edmond Gagnebin (1879-1959) was a Swiss banker and industrialist. Edmond Gagnebin took over the factory of his father, Numa Gagnebin, before World War I. In 1928 he reorganized the firm as Société Anonyme Les Fils de Numa Gagnebin, which produced watches under the name Numa. Gagnebin was involved in banking and trade unions, especially in the French-speaking regions of Canton Berne. He was a member of the management for...")
• 12:54, 19 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Louis-Paul Monnet (Created page with "Louis-Paul Monnet (1891-1936) was a financier who worked with ASUAG, FIDHOR, and Ebauches SA. Louis-Paul Monnet was born in 1891. He was appointed by the Neuchâtel Council of State to become a manager of the Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise in 1928, and served in this position through 1936. Monnet was committed to the cause of consolidation ant the cartel, and was involved in most such activities at the time. Monnet became involved...")
• 12:47, 19 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Werner Brandt (Created page with "Werner Brandt senior (1875-1959) was a Swiss industrialist. Werner Brandt was born in 1875 and trained as a watchmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Morat and Besançon. He went to work for the Boillat Foundry in Reconvilier in 1903, where he rose from production manager in 1904 to authorized representative in 1917, managing director in 1930, and secretary of the board of directors from 1944 through his death in 1959. Br...")
• 12:43, 19 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Armin Laubscher (Created page with "Armin Laubscher (1886-1955) was a banker and financier involved in the watch industry. Armin Laubscher was born in Täuffelen in Canton Berne in 1866. His was a family of industrial watchmakers, but Armin chose a career as a banker instead. Laubscher worked for the Société de Banque Suisse, where he was Deputy Director from 1928, then director from 1935 of the branch in Basel. He became a general manager for the bank from 1950 to [...")
• 03:40, 19 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Alphonse Gogler (Created page with "Alphonse Gogler (1866-1945) Edouard-Alphonse Gogler was born on November 14, 1866. He married Marie-Louise Harder née Esnault of Neuchatel and apprenticed as a bank clerk at the Banque Rieckel. Gogler joined Justin-Ernest Jeanneret in a partnership known as Jeanneret & Gogler on November 1, 1893. This was a watch manufacturer and continued the business previously of Jeanneret alone. The partnership was dissolved on December 31, 1901 and tak...")
• 21:49, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Gustave Ulrich (Created page with "Gustave Ulrich (1893-1958) was director of the Fabriques Nationales de Spiraux et de Ressorts. Gustave-Adolphe Ulrich was born in 1893 in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He completed his commercial studies there before a rapid but serious technical study in Germany. At a very young age, he took over, with the help of his father, director of the Brasserie de la Comète, the management of a small balance-spring factory, owned by a relative of his mother, the [...")
• 18:27, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Montres Berna (Redirected page to Berna) Tag: New redirect
• 18:09, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page W. Ruch & Cie (Created page with "W. Ruch & Cie was a manufacturer of balance springs in Saint-Imier in the 1930s. The company was founded by Werner Ruch and his father Albert Ruch and became part of Fabrique de Spiraux Réunies before being split, with Reinhard Straumann's Nivarox SA, in 1937. Ruch remained in operation inside FSR through 1962. ==Detailed Timeline== * 1929 - August 1 - W. Ruch & Cie is founded in Saint-Imier by Albert Ruch and his son ...")
• 13:52, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Glucydur (Created page with "Glucydur is a trademarked name for an alloy of beryllium and bronze typically used in balance wheels. The development of Glucydur in the 1930s coincided with that of Nivarox for balance springs and caused a revolution in construction and accuracy of an assortiment. ==The Search for Stable Balance Materials== The development of advanced materials for watch balances was necessary due to many undesirable aspects of steel, which had been the primary materia...")
• 04:27, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Charles-Edouard Guillaume (Created page with "Charles-Edouard Guillaume (1861-1938) was a genius physicist born in Fleurier, Switzerland, who completed his studies in Neuchâtel before obtaining an engineering degree from the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. Guillaume joined the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris in 1883, where he worked for 53 years and became its director for 17 years until 1936. Guillaume's work on the alloys of iron, chromium, and nickel led to...")
• 04:01, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Charles Bonny (Created page with "Charles Bonny (1876-1935) was a prominent businessman in Bienne and served as director of watchmaking firm La Générale. ==Obituary== With Charles Bonny, one of the first industrialists of the city of Biel and one of the most friendly figures in our watchmaking world has passed away. Born in La Brévine in 1876, he came to La Chaux-de-Fonds at the age of nine, where he continued his schooling. Then he went to Schiers to learn German. From t...")
• 03:57, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page César Schild (Redirected page to César Schild-Krebs) Tag: New redirect
• 03:56, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page César Schild-Krebs (Created page with "César Schild-Krebs (1878-1936) was a prominent Swiss businessman and watchmaker who made a significant contribution to the watchmaking industry during his lifetime, serving as director and president of A. Schild and the first vice-president of the board of directors of Ebauches SA. ==Obituary== Schild-Krebs was known for his extensive experience in the business world and his strong personality, which made him a respected figure in the watchmaking commu...")
• 03:47, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Auguste Roulet (Created page with "Auguste Roulet (1886-1939) was a prominent figure in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in the fields of law, business, and public service. ==Obituary== Auguste Roulet was born in 1886 in Neuchâtel, but spent two semesters at the University of Berlin in 1908 and 1909. However, it was in Neuchâtel where his life passed, and he became one with the land and its traditions. Following in the footsteps of his father, who was a notary, politician, and col...")
• 03:36, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Adrien Francillon (Created page with "Adrien Francillon was a dedicated and enthusiastic worker who spent 30 years of his life at the Longines factory in St-Imier. He started his career in the commercial department and became a powerful liaison between the commercial and manufacturing departments. He became a fondé de pouvoirs in 1915 and was a member of the Board of Directors since 1919. Besides his work at Longines, he was also involved in several public activities in St-Imier, including the Comm...")
• 02:58, 18 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Swiza (Created page with "Louis Schwab (1876-1935) was a Swiss entrepreneur who established himself as a pioneer in the watchmaking industry. His dream was to create his own business and take advantage of the development opportunities offered by the industrialization of the watchmaking industry. Schwab began working at a young age and through his economies, he managed to purchase some machines and partnered with Mr. C. Schaller in 1904 to found the Bellevue factory in Moutier....")
• 18:01, 17 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Hahn Frères & Cie (Redirected page to Charles Hahn & Cie) Tag: New redirect
• 18:00, 17 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Hahn Frères (Redirected page to Charles Hahn & Cie) Tag: New redirect
• 17:26, 17 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Léon Lévy Frères (Redirected page to Pierce) Tag: New redirect
• 03:37, 17 April 2023 Sfoskett talk contribs created page Georges Sandoz (Created page with "Two men named Georges Sandoz (father and son) were deeply involved with the Fabriques de Spiraux Réunies. ==Georges Sandoz-Nicoud== Georges Sandoz-Nicoud was born around 1845. He married the daughter of Frédéric Nicoud (1815-1887). By 1875, Georges Sandoz was operating a watchmaking business at Rue St-Pierre 12 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the same address as his father in law. By 1880, Sandoz was a partner with Rivenc and Paquet in Geneva, operat...")