====== Brandt, Louis ======
{{wst>image_r|Brandt,_Louis|Louis Brandt (1825-1879), company founder of [[Omega]]}}
**Louis Brandt (1825-1879)** was a Swiss watchmaker.

In [[1848]] Louis Brandt, only 23 years old, opened a factory for the production of [[pocket watch]]es in [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]] (canton [[Neuchâtel]]). The models produced there first bore his own name, ie "Louis Brandt," on the dial. After the elder son Louis Paul entered [[1877]] the business, the company was called //Louis Brandt & Fils//. Louis Brandt died on July 5, [[1879]].

The two sons Louis Paul and Cesar relocated the company in the same year to [[Biel]], where it has its headquarters also today. From [[1891]] it was called //Louis Brandt & Frère// and at about turn of the century it adopted the later famous name [[Omega]].


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