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| ===== Foundation in 1865 ===== | ===== Foundation in 1865 ===== |
| Only 22 years young, in [[1865]] [[Favre-Jacot, Georges|Georges Favre-Jacot]] founded the „Fabrique des Billodes" in [[Le Locle]]. First he manufactured precision pocket watches, which were signed with his name. About [[1900]] the product range was expanded There were on-[[board chronometer]]s, [[table clock]]s, precision [[pendulum clock]]s and later [[marine chronometer]]s. | Only 22 years young, in [[1865]] [[Favre-Jacot, Georges|Georges Favre-Jacot]] founded the „Fabrique des Billodes" in [[Le Locle]]. First he manufactured precision pocket watches, which were signed with his name. About [[1900]] the product range was expanded. There were on-[[board chronometer]]s, [[table clock]]s, precision [[pendulum clock]]s and later [[marine chronometer]]s. |
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| The name "Zenith" came to his mind, when he just had developed a [[movement]] which seemed to him more perfect than all previous; looking up at the sky full of stars the sky appeared to him similar to the game of the wheels and cones in a perfect mechanical instrument, and he decided that his new movement and its [[manufacture]] should be named after the highest point of the universe the zenith. From this emerged also the choice of a five-pointed star as corporate icon. | The name "Zenith" came to his mind, when he just had developed a [[movement]] which seemed to him more perfect than all previous; looking up at the sky full of stars the sky appeared to him similar to the game of the wheels and cones in a perfect mechanical instrument, and he decided that his new movement and its [[manufacture]] should be named after the highest point of the universe the zenith. From this emerged also the choice of a five-pointed star as corporate icon. |
