Bautte, Jean-François (1772 - ?)

inventor, designer, founder

watch manufacture of his time inGeneva. He also created watches and jewellery for famous people and was one of the inventorsof the extra-thin watch.

Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. In 1791, watchmaker and goldsmith Jean-François Bautte signed his first watches. He created a manufacturing company in Geneva grouping, for the first time ever, all the watch making facets of that time, which meant starting from the engineering of the watch all the way to the final handassembly and hand polishing of each watch. In 1852, the watchmaker Constant Girard founded the Girard & Cie Firm in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He, then, married Marie Perregaux and the Girard-Perregaux Manufacture was born in 1856. In 1906, Constant Girard-Gallet, who took over control of the Manufacturer from his father, took over the Bautte House and merged it with Girard-Perregaux & Cie. Since then, the brand has pursued its activities by reinforcing from the 1980 sits position in the domain of prestigious mechanical watches, Haute Horlogerie
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ortografie alternativă:
Bautte, Jean-François

Curriculum vitae

* 1772	Genève	nǎscut
1791		founds his company
1804		developed his own manufacture in Geneva
* 30.11.1837	Genève	nǎscut
1906		is absorbed by Girard Perregaux

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		Revoluţia industrialǎ, cca 1780-1850
		Industrializarea cca, 1850-1920

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=26162004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_26162004.html

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Bautte, Jean-François (1772 - ?)