Ernest Francillon

Ernest Francillon (1834 – 3 April 1900) was the Swiss manager of Longines watches and an entrepreneur.

[citation needed] Francillon was born in Lausanne in 1834.

[1] He studied in his birth town, Vevey and Stuttgart.

[3] During the final decades of the 19th century he set up a modern watch factory and undertook action to remain competitive against producers in the United States.

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