Philippe Dufour
Philippe Dufour (* 1948 in Le Solliat ) is a Swiss watchmaker , inventor of the wristwatch with a complete minute repeater and a member of the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants .
Life
Dufour attended the technical school in Le Sentier and was hired as a watchmaker at Jaeger-LeCoultre and watchmaker Gabriel Locatelli in 1967 . After several stays in London, Frankfurt and in the Virgin Islands Philippe Dufour in 1978 founded the company Philippe Dufour in Le Sentier. At Baselworld in 1992, Dufour presented the world's first wristwatch with a complete minute repeater (French: grande et petite sonnerie , big and small ringing). In 1996 he built the Duality wristwatch with two balances .
Web links
- Lucien F. Trueb: Masterpieces from the School House - Portrait Philippe Dufour . In: Chronos , No. 3, 2007, pp. 84-91
- Philippe Dufour in Timezone (English)
- Une visite chez Philippe Dufour in Chronomania (French)
- Philippe Dufour in Watches-Lexic (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elizabeth Doerr, Ralf Baumgarten: Twelve Faces Of Time - Horological Virtuosos. , Teneues, New York 2010. ISBN 978-3-8327-9373-9 .
- ↑ Josef Seitz: Absolutely crazy. In: Focus No. 14 (2005). Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ^ Christophe Roulet: Philippe Dufour puts the final full stop on the simplicity. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Haute Horlogerie (2013). Retrieved March 19, 2013.
- ↑ Sabine Zettler: Simply complicated. In: Watchtime (2008). Retrieved March 19, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dufour, Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss watchmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Sentier |