====== 1839 ======

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  *  On 1 May 1839 the watch [[manufacture]] //Patek, Czapek & Co.// is founded in [[Geneva]] by two Polish immigrants, the businessman and noble [[Patek, Antoine Norbert de|Antoine Norbert count de Patek]] and the watchmaker Francois Czapek. This is the start of the prestigious luxury watch brand [[Patek Philippe]]. 
  *  In the same year, [[Jacques Barthélemy Vacheron]] and [[Francois Constantin]] recruit the [[Geneva]] watch maker and mechanic [[Leschot, Georges-Auguste|Georges-Auguste Leschot]] as a technical director, who introduces the mass production of watch movements with the tools he invented and thereby greatly improves the precision and quality of the [[pocket watch]]es.
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