====== Favre-Jacot, Georges ======
{{wst>image_r|Favre-Jacot,_George|Georges Favre-Jacot (1843-1917)}}
**Georges Favre-Jacot** was a watchmaker and watch entrepreneur.

Georges Favre-Jacot was born in [[1843]]. In [[1865]], at the young age of only 22, he founded the "Fabrique des Billodes" in [[Le Locle]], which later became the famous watch manufacturer [[Zenith]]. First, he made precision [[pocket watch]]es that were signed with his name. [[1900]] the product range was expanded [[Board chronometer]]s, [[table clock]]s, precision [[pendulum]] watches and later also [[marine chronometer]]s were manufactured.

The name "Zenith" came to his mind, when he had just developed a [[movement]] that seemed more perfect than any previous to him; on looking at the starry sky, the sky appeared to him as the game of the wheels and pins in a perfect mechanics, and he decided to name his new movement and also his [[manufacture]] after the highest point of the universe Zenith. Also, hence, resulted for him the choice of a five-pointed star as the company symbol.

Georges Favre-Jacot died on May 19, [[1917]].

===== Literature =====
  *[[Das ZEITGEFÜHL-Uhrenbuch]]; Author [[Gerd-Lothar Reschke]]; ISBN 3-938607-61-0


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