Ulysse Nardin

Ulysse Nardin is a Swiss watchmaker in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchatel.

History

Frédéric Léonard Nardin (* 1792 ) was the first watchmaker to the family. His son Ulysse (1823-1876) founded in Le Locle, Switzerland in 1846 a watch factory, under the not yet 20 -year-old son, Paul David, among other specialized after the sudden death of its founder to ship chronometer with which they received many awards.

From 1906 to the United States Naval Observatory Deck watches and pocket watches bought at Ulysse Nardin until 1942 when Switzerland was isolated from the surrounding occupied states. Starting in 1940, these watches are copied from the American company, Hamilton and developed by industrial methods.

The parent company pocket watches were built with complications such as calendar, moon phase, perpetual calendar, alarm functions and percussion. In 1900, about 300 employees working at the plant. The Watch Museum Le Locle some of the watches are issued from this time.

At the 1936 Summer Olympics a wrist watch for men in stainless steel was brought to the market with chronograph and automatic winding.

In the years 1982 and 1983, the company was near bankruptcy. Together with other investors took over the Swiss Rolf W. Schnyder, who had previously built up factories in Malaysia for ( quartz ) watch parts, the desolate company, in which only two persons were employed. Numerous historically and artistically valuable pieces of their own corporate collection had been disappeared or stolen. Within a few years succeeded Schnyder, to bring the brand " Ulysse Nardin " back to the Top of the swiss watch manufacturer. With critical to the success was Schnyder's partner and friend, the watch designer Ludwig Oechslin.

14 April 2011 Schnyder died unexpectedly after a brief illness. "Thanks to the existing succession plan, the operational management by the current members of the Executive Board without interruption and will be continued within the meaning of Rolf W. Schnyder ," the company said after his death on the day.

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