The Renaissance of a grand tradition

Only a few companies retain a tradition of creating Swiss timepieces – one of them is located in Villeret: Minerva, a small watchmaking manufacture, founded more than 150 years ago.
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Nicolas Rieussec: The inventor of the world’s first chronograph

A historical moment occurred on September 1st in 1821, at a horse race in Paris, when the watch maker Nicolas Rieussec succeeded in recording the time of every horse passing by the finishing line to an accuracy of a quarter of a second.
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