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+====== Jaeger, Edmond ======
+{{wst>image_r|Jaeger,_Edmond|Edmond Jaeger}}
+**Edmond Jaeger** was a French businessman and watchmaker active from [[1880]] through [[1922]]. He contributed to the development of the modern [[Jaeger-LeCoultre]] company, which shares his name.
+==History==
+Edmond Jaeger was born in [[1858]] in Alsace. He established a watchmaking workshop in Paris in [[1880]], and began delivering chronometers to the French navy in [[1890]].
+In [[1903]], Jaeger met [[LeCoultre, Jacques-David|Jacques-David LeCoultre]], grandson of [[LeCoultre, Charles Antoine|Charles Antoine LeCoultre]], in Paris. Jaeger and LeCoultre began a life-long collaboration, producing ultra-thin and complicated luxury watches. Indeed, it was Jaeger who challenged LeCoultre to begin producing ultra-thin movements. This collaboration was so successful that Jaeger signed a 14 year exclusivity agreement in [[1907]] with [[Cartier]] agreeing to exclusively supply movements, manufactured by LeCoultre and finished by Jaeger.
+During World War I, Jaeger and LeCoultre & Cie partnered to create aviation and automobile dials and controls for the allies. This became a major business for Jaeger, known for automobile gauges throughout the 20th century.
+Jaeger, operating from Paris, initially registered his patents in Switzerland through a Basle lawyer but established his own firm in Geneva in [[1917]]. LeCoultre brought him into the administration of his firm around this time, and Jaeger reciprocated.
+In failing health, Edmond Jaeger gradually turned control of his firm over to Jacques Lebet. Working in Paris, Lebet oversaw the company's workshops until Jaeger's death in [[1922]]. Lebet replaced Jaeger at his namesake firm, the Geneva operation of which was gradually incorporated into LeCoultre's.
+In [[1937]], LeCoultre's sales operation, based in Lausanne, was renamed "Société de Vente des Produits Jaeger-LeCoultre," and this operation soon handled [[Vacheron Constantin]]'s sales as well. The firm of [[Jaeger-LeCoultre]] continues to this day as part of the [[Richemont]] group.
+===== Literature =====
+  * [[Das ZEITGEFÜHL-Uhrenbuch]]; Author [[Gerd-Lothar Reschke]]; ISBN 3-938607-61-0
+{{tag>Biographies Jaeger-LeCoultre}}