1875
- Audemars Piguet is founded by Jules-Louis Audemars and Edward-Auguste Piguet in the Swiss Jura village of Le Brassus.
- Louis Cartier, the brilliant, stylistically confident designer of watch classics, as they still crucially contribute to the success of the world brand Cartier, is born in Paris.
- Ferdinand Adolph Lange, founder of the famous watch manufacture A. Lange & Söhne, dies on December 3, 1875.