Ulysse Nardin (watchmaker)
Ulysse Nardin (born January 22, 1823 in Le Locle ; † February 20, 1876 there ) was a Swiss watchmaker .
After training as a watchmaker in the workshop of his father Léonard Frédéric Nardin in Le Locle , who specialized in repeater watches, he worked for the chronometer maker Frédéric-William Dubois and Louis Jean Richard-dit-Bressel.
In 1846 he opened his own workshop in Le Locle under his name, Ulysse Nardin . There he first manufactured pocket watches of all kinds, for the variety and quality of which he was awarded at the World Exhibition in London in 1862 . In 1858 he supported the founding of the Neuchâtel observatory and in 1868 began participating in its chronometer competitions with his precision pocket watches with lever escapement . After Ulysse Nardin's sudden death in 1876, his 20-year-old son Paul David Nardin took over the business.
Web links
- Estelle Fallet: Nardin, Ulysse. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz von Osterhausen: Callweys lexicon . Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7667-1353-1 ; P. 220
- ↑ Lukas Stolberg: Lexicon of the pocket watch ; Carinthia Verlag; Klagenfurt 1995; ISBN 3-85378-423-2 ; P. 148
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| SURNAME | Nardin, Ulysse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chronometer maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Locle |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1876 |
| Place of death | Le Locle |