Edouard Heuer
Edouard Heuer (* 1840 in Brügg , Canton Bern , † April 30, 1892 ) was a Swiss watchmaker .
Heuer, the child of a shoemaker, founded the Heuer watch manufacture in Saint-Imier in the Swiss Jura in 1860 . In 1864 he moved the company to Biel . In 1876 he founded a branch in London . From 1880 he was the first watchmaker to manufacture chronographs in series .
After the merger with the Techniques d'Avant Garde TAG group in 1985, the company was renamed TAG Heuer .
Web links
- Hélène Pasquier: TAG Heuer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- This year, Edouard in watch-wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Abeler: Master of the watchmaking art. Wuppertal 1977, p. 277.
- ↑ Lukas Stolberg: Lexicon of the pocket watch ; Carinthia Verlag; Klagenfurt 1995; ISBN 3-85378-423-2 , p. 100.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | This year, Edouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss watchmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brügg , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1892 |