Ernest Francillon
Illustration — Ernest Francillon Ernest Francillon (1834 – 3 April 1900) was the Swiss manager of Longines watches and an entrepreneur. He was the nephew of Auguste Agassiz. Francillon was born in Lausanne in 1834.
Ernest Francillon
Roland Zumbuehl · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1834 · Lausanne.
- Died
- 1900 · Saint-Imier.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- politician · watchmaker · entrepreneur
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Illustration — Ernest Francillon Ernest Francillon (1834 – 3 April 1900) was the Swiss manager of Longines watches and an entrepreneur. He was the nephew of Auguste Agassiz. Francillon was born in Lausanne in 1834.
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He studied in his birth town, Vevey and Stuttgart. He subsequently became an apprentice watchmaker in Val-de-Travers. He founded the Longines company in 1866. During the final decades of the 19th century he set up a modern watch factory and undertook action to remain competitive against producers in the United States. 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.
Recorded position is Member of the Swiss National Council. He belonged to Grande Loge Suisse Alpina. He worked at Bern.
Gedenktafel an Ernest Francillon dem Gründer der Uhrenfabrik Longines in Saint-Imier
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1834
Ernest Francillon born at Lausanne.
1900
Ernest Francillon died at Saint-Imier.
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- 1.Eitel, F. Anarchistische Uhrmacher in der Schweiz: Mikrohistorische Globalgeschichte zu den Anfängen der anarchistischen Bewegung im 19. Jahrhundert. transcript Verlag. 121. 2018. 978-3-8394-3931-9.
- 2.Staub, W. Die Schweiz und die Forschung: eine Würdigung schweizerischen Schaffens. H. Huber. v. 2. 110. 1944.
- 3.Birksted, J. Le Corbusier and the Occult. MIT Press. 102. 2009. 978-0-262-02648-2.
- 4.Gutmann, M. Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity. Springer International Publishing. 176. 2019. 978-3-030-26090-3.
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