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Apro questa discussione col fine di costruire una raccolta di vedute d'epoca delle fabbriche (svizzere, ma non solo) dove sono nati i nostri amati archibugi & ferrivecchi, per meglio comprendere il contesto storico, geografico, ambientale e culturale ma anche p.es. le dimensioni industriali (a volte veramente inaspettate) dei vari marchi e, non da ultimo, per respirare le atmosfere uniche di un'epoca irripetibile. Si possono mettere vedute tratte da foto, cartoline, stampe, pubblicità ecc delle fabbriche medesime e dell'ambiente nel quale erano inserite, ma anche quelle dei reparti e delle maestranze al lavoro o in foto di gruppo ecc, nonchè di tutte quelle attività di contorno riferibili a questo settore industriale.
Ne ho viste parecchie e bellissime nelle varie discussioni, quindi il materiale non manca.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantoni_della_Svizzera
Longines - St. Imier (BE), CH
© http://picasaweb.google.com/kneubuehler.je...LesFabriquesBW#
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Moeris - St. Imier (BE), CH
© http://picasaweb.google.com/kneubuehler.je...LesFabriquesBW#
ARSA (Auguste Reymond S.A.) - Tramelan (BE), CH
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Cortébert - Cortébert (BE), CH
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Movado - La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE), CH
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Piaget - La Cote-aux-Fées (NE), CH
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Fortis - Grenchen (BE), CH - 1920-1930, notare la scritta Harwood sulla facciata.
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Eterna / Eta - Grenchen (BE), CH
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Roamer - Solothurn (SO), CH
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Yema - Besancon, F
Street View
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Eberhard 
Charles-Emile Eberhard in giro a vendere i sioi orologi
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Elgin - Elgin (Illinois), USA
Demolizione nel 1966:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15595/15595-h/15595-h.htm
http://www.elginhistory.com/
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Topic bellissimo, complimenti x l'iniziativa e a chi saprà contribuire in futuro 
Queste immagini fanno sognare e.....capire!
Cosa l'uomo è stato in grado di realizzare senza Microsoft ed Apple
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Omega 
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Minerva (1930) 
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.CITAZIONE (msx @ 17/7/2009, 15:20)bella idea Grazie a tutti, può uscirne una bella raccolta, la foto del sig. Eberhard parla da sola...
La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE), Boucherie Parisienne in rue... Daniel Jeanrichard, sul tetto pubblicità Montres Invar, inizio '900
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Cartolina postale con pubblicità Movado, datata 1903
© http://cdf-mh.ne.ch/d2wfiles/document/334/...0Chx%20hist.doc
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Zenith 
Quella che si vede a maggior ingrandimento, (*) era forse l'automobile di Georges-Favre Jacot
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Tavannes 1938
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Cartolina di "Grenchen"
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.CITAZIONE (nicola1960 @ 17/7/2009, 18:51)Quella che si vede a maggior ingrandimento, (*) era forse l'automobile di Georges-Favre Jacot
E, non solo il avait la passion des chevaux, une voiture de légende, ma il se fit construire à sa retraite une villa perchée en dessus de Zenith, pour garder un oeil sur l’entreprise.
http://www.urbanismehorloger.ch/d2wfiles/d...02007-12-10.pdf
La villa Favre-Jacot (1912), è una delle opere giovanili di Le Corbusier.
Interessante anche questo: http://www.juraregion.ch/download/neuchate...o/UH_LL_web.pdf
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Fabbrica degli orologi in Via Veneto a Cecina. Collezione Enio Bandini, Cecina 
Comune di Montescudaio, orologio Toninelli
Rockford Watch Company. Rockford, Illinois, 1873 - 1915
American Waltham Watch Company
1851 - 1957
http://www.pocketwatchrepair.com/watch_res.../waltham_01.jpg
American Waltham Watch Company
1851 - 1957
Ripopongo quello dell'Elgin postato da Antand in un altra versione
Gruen Watch Company
Illinois Watch Company
Springfield, Illinois
1869 - 1927
Hamilton
Hamilton Watch Company
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1892 - 1969
Hamilton factory: Using a precision scale to fit
balance screws to a balance.
Seth Thomas Watch & Clock Company
Thomaston, Connecticut
1853 - 1931
(Seth Thomas Watch Company 1883 - 1915)
South Bend Watch Company
South Bend, Indiana
1903 - 1929
South Bend Watch Company, South Bend Indiana
South Bend Watch Company, maker of Studebaker watches
Ball Watch Company
Cleveland, Ohio
1879 - 1969
Hampden Watch Company
(Dueber Watch Company)
Springfield, Mass then Canton, Ohio
1877 - 1930
Columbus Watch Company
Columbus, Ohio
1874 - 1903
The Columbus Watch Company. The small building at the rear (with the chimney)
housed the company's steam engine, which supplied power to the rest of the
factory via an elaborate system of belts and pulleys. A portion of the front building
is still standing
The Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch
"Secret inscription" revealed after 148 years
In the photo of Abraham Lincoln and son Tad above, taken only four days
before the President was shot in 1865, the chain of Lincoln's pocketwatch
is just visible looping across his vest.
Washington, March 10, 2009 - The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History announced it has found a “secret” message engraved in President Abraham Lincoln’s watch by a watchmaker who was repairing it in 1861 when news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Washington, D.C.
In an interview with The New York Times April 30, 1906, 84-year-old Jonathan Dillon recalled that he was working for M.W. Galt and Co. on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, where he was repairing Lincoln’s watch. The owner of the shop announced that the first shot of the Civil War had been fired. Dillon reported that he removed the dial of the watch, and with a sharp instrument wrote on the metal beneath: “The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try.” He then signed and dated the inscription and closed the dial. Dillon told The New York Times in 1906 that to his knowledge, no one ever saw the inscription.
After being contacted by Dillon’s great-great-grandson, Doug Stiles of Waukegan, Ill., the museum agreed to remove the dial to see if the watchmaker’s message was inside. The museum did find a message inscribed on the brass underside of the movement. The wording was slightly different from Dillon’s own recollection. The actual engraving says:
Jonathan Dillon
April 13-1861
Fort Sumpter [sic] was attacked
by the rebels on the above
date J Dillon
April 13-1861
Washington
thank God we have a government
Jonth Dillon
Other markings of one or more watchmakers also appear on the watch.
“Lincoln never knew of the message he carried in his pocket,” said Brent D. Glass, director of the National Museum of American History. “It’s a personal side of history about an ordinary watchman being inspired to record something for posterity.”
During the 18th and 19th centuries, professional watchmakers often recorded their work inside a watch, and it would typically only be seen by another watchmaker. This inscription remained hidden behind the dial for almost 150 years.
Lincoln purchased the watch in the 1850s from George Chatterton, a Springfield, Ill., jeweler. Though Lincoln was not outwardly vain, the fine gold watch was a symbol of his success as a prominent Illinois lawyer. In the 19th century, men wore their watches in their clothing pockets. It was not until after World War I that wristwatches became more popular for use by men. The watch came to the museum in 1958 as a gift from Lincoln Isham, Abraham Lincoln’s great-grandson.
Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States in November 1860. In January 1861, South Carolina seceded from the Union, and was followed by the secession of six more states before Lincoln’s March 1861 inauguration. On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began with shots fired at Fort Sumter.
A Watchmaker's Perspective: Why would a watchmaker take it upon himself to scratch a message under the dial of one of their customer's watches, especially if that customer was the President of the United States? Now that's chutzpah! The watch referred to herein was made in Liverpool, but the maker is unknown to us. Some of the news articles reported that "they couldn't get the watch to run." Not surprising given that the 3rd and 4th wheel jewels are missing as clearly shown in the photo above! According to the biography of Lincoln by Carl Sandburg, Lincoln is also reputed to have owned and carried an 18-size, 11-jewel, Waltham "Wm. Ellery" model (key-wind in silver hunting case). Maybe he used his American Waltham while his fancy Liverpool watch was in the shop having the jewels removed?
Longines
In October 2000, the leader of Russia watch industry, the First Moscow Watch Factory celebrated its 70th anniversary. It also was the 70th anniversary of Russian watch industry.
Watch industry in Czar Russia consisted just of several small workshops and enterprises. They usually assembled watches using watch parts made abroad. After the 1917 revolution, the whole watch industry became a part of the ‘Trust of Precision Mechanics’. They were watch enterprises, work shops, warehouses of watch parts and half-finished products which belonged to famous manufacturers such as P. Bure, G. Mozer, Reinin, Dmitriev, etc before the revolution.
By 1926, the supply of watches and watch parts had run out, however; the demand for watches increased for the army, the navy, the railways and ordinary people. Then the USSR started to buy watches and watch parts from abroad paying in gold. Therefore, on December 21,1927 the Council of Labor and Defense passed a resolution About How to organize watch production in the USSR...................
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1940`s Longines Wrist Watch Factory Swiss Switzerland Advertising Poster
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Laboratorio non identificato nelle Montagnes neuchâteloises, 1918
Atelier Zenith, 1910 circa.
Free counters
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