Watch Companies
Many watch companies started in La Chaux de Fonds:
- Bouchet-Lassale SA, in 1978;
- Marathon Watch Co. in 1904 - Originally founded as Weinsturm Watch.
- Cyma Watches, 1862 - Schwob Frères and Co. 1892 - Cyma Watch Company.
- Eberhard & Co., by George-Emile Eberhard, in 1887;
- Ebel, by Eugene Blum and Alice Levy, in 1911;
- Gallet & Co., by Julien Gallet, in 1826;
- Girard-Perregaux, by Constantin Girard and Marie Perregaux, in 1856;
- Heuer Leonidas, now TAG Heuer, by Edouard Heuer, in 1860;
- Invicta Watch Group, by Raphael Picard, in 1837;
- Movado, by Achilles Ditesheim, in 1881;
- Omega SA, in 1848;
- Rolex trademark, registered by Hans Wilsdorf, in 1908. His company, Wilsdorf and Davis, London, was later renamed Rolex Watch Company, Geneva and Biel/Bienne;
- Rotary, by Moise Dreyfuss, in 1895;
- Solvil et Titus, by Paul Ditisheim, in 1892;
- Venus by Paul Arthur Schwarz and Olga Etienne, in 1902;
- Vulcain by Maurice Ditisheim, in 1858.
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