Léon Breitling
Swiss watchmaker and businessman
Léon Breitling (27 January 1860 – 11 August 1914) was a Swiss watchmaker and a businessman, who founded the watch manufacturing company Breitling SA in Saint-Imier in 1884.2
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Born 1860, died 1914.1
Companies
Career
Occupation: watchmaker.4
Léon Breitling was born in 1860. His interest in watchmaking started at a very young age. He had his first internship as a teenager.
In 1884, at age 24, he established his first business venture, the watchmaking company G Leon Breitling in Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura). He founded his manufacture, producing complicated watches, chronographs and chronometric instruments.
In 1892, Breitling moved his company to La Chaux-de-Fonds to larger production facilities, renaming the brand the Leon G. Breitling Montbrillant SA Watch Factory. The business eventually grew to 60 employees.
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Personal life
Breitling was born in 1860. He died in 1914 in Switzerland.
He married and had one child, Gaston Breitling, to whom he passed his company, Breitling.
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Sources
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- 1WikidataLéon Breitling on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaLéon Breitling on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataBreitling, Founder
- 8Wikimedia CommonsLéon Breitling photo by Unknown author Unknown author, CC0