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Chopard - Swiss Uhrenfirma
Louis Ulysse Chopard founded in 1860 in Sonvilier in the Swiss Jura a watch company, which manufactured high precision pocket watches and supplied them to the Swiss Railway.
Since 1963 the company with the noble-sounding name is owned by the German family Scheufele, because Karl Scheufele, a successful jeweler from Pforzheim, acquired the traditional business from the then 80-year-old Paul André Chopard.
Meanwhile, the family business with branches in Geneva, Fleurier, and Pforzheim is one of the most successful jewelery and watch manufacturers in the world. Chopard stands for high quality jewelery collections and special watches, and much emphasis is laid on manual labor and …
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