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Ernest Francillon (1834 – 3 April 1900) was the Swiss manager of Longines watches and an entrepreneur. He was the nephew of Auguste Agassiz.[ citation needed]
Francillon was born in Lausanne in 1834. [1] He studied in his birth town, Vevey and Stuttgart. He subsequently became an apprentice watchmaker in Val-de-Travers. [2] He founded the Longines company in 1866. [3] During the final decades of the 19th century he set up a modern watch factory and undertook action to remain competative against producers in the United States. [4]
He died on 3 April 1900 in Saint-Imier, where he founded the factory. A monument to his memory was erected on 13 October 1907.[ citation needed]
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