Edouard Heuer
Swiss watchmaker, founder of the watch company Heuer.
He was was born 1840 as son of a shoemaker in Brügg, Canton of Bern. In 1860, he founded the watch manufacture Heuer in Saint-Imier in the Swiss Jura. 1864, he moved with the company to Biel. Already 1876, he founded a branch in London.
Edouard Heuer ventured as the first watchmaker to the series production of chronographs. His approach was to manufacture chronographs technically easier and therefore cheaper, so he turned his attention primarily to the simplification of the usual clutch for the chronograph mechanism. This consisted of several components, and their production, finishing and assembly constitute a significant cost factor. He developed the so called oscillating pinion …