Question 5·Put in order
Rank these watch houses by founding year, earliest first.
Correct order
- 1Breguet (Paris)
- 2LeCoultre (Le Sentier)
- 3Heuer (Saint-Imier)
- 4Hamilton (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
The story behind it
Antoine LeCoultre's first workshop grew out of his invention of a machine to cut watch pinions, not out of finished watches. Edouard Heuer was only 20 when he opened his shop on the family farm at Saint-Imier, making mostly silver pocket watches.