====== 1894 ====== * The //[[Manufacture]] Maurice Ditisheim//, founded by [[Maurice Ditisheim]] in [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]], offers for the first time watches of the brand [[Vulcain]]. * Numa-Emile Descombes and [[Perret, Ulysse Georges|Ulysse Georges Perret]] together found a watch and [[etablissage]] plant in [[Le Locle]]. Later it becomes the well-kown [[manufacture]] [[Universal Genève]]. * [[Jean-Adrien Philippe]] dies on 5 Januar in Plainpalais near [[Geneva]]. <- [[1893]] | [[1895]] -> {{tag>Year}}