====== Breitling, Léon ======
{{wst>image_r|Breitling,_Léon|Léon Breitling (1860-1914)}}
**Léon Breitling** was a Swiss watchmaker and founder of the well-known watch brand [[Breitling]].

Léon Breitling was born in [[1860]]. After the end of the apprenticeship he went into businnes for himself and [[1884]] at the young age of 24 years founded the small manufacturing [[Breitling|"G Leon Breitling"]] in [[Saint-Imier]] (Bernese Jura) . There he produced complicated watches, [[chronograph]]s and chronometric instruments. [[1892]], he moved with his company to [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]] to larger production facilities in a building shared with [[Couleru-Meuri]]. The company now called itself "Leon G. Breitling Montbrillant SA Watch Factory" and had 60 employees.

Léon Breitling died on August 11, [[1914]] and left the company's succession to his son [[Breitling, Gaston|Gaston]].

===== Literature =====
  *[[Breitling. Die Geschichte einer großen Uhrenmarke. 1884 bis heute]]; Author [[Benno Richter]]; ISBN 3766711350 
  *[[Das ZEITGEFÜHL-Uhrenbuch]]; Author [[Gerd-Lothar Reschke]]; ISBN 3-938607-61-0


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