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Established for more than twenty years in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the company Ernest Borel is expanding and returning to its birthplace in the Franches-Montagnes. In 1997, Raphaël Boillat took over the reins of Ernest Borel under...
LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, Switzerland (AP) -- Willy Kernen, a former Switzerland international who played at the 1954 World Cup, has died. He was 80. Kernen died Thursday, L'Impartial newspaper reported Saturday. It gave no cause of...
1887: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known to the world as Le Corbusier, is born in the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. After moving to Paris in 1907, he toiled for Auguste Perret, an architect renowned for his work in...
La Chaux-de-Fonds opposes Crêt-Meuron wind turbines -- The village of La Chaux-de-Fonds wants to halt the wind energy project on Crêt-Meuron. It wants first to be consulted and to create a cantonal, even intercantonal, energy...
Swiss law bars a museum from surrendering a 19th-century painting that it was given after it had been stolen from a Jewish family in Paris by the pro-Nazi Vichy French regime during World War II, authorities said Thursday. More...
The carefully crafted Christian Dior watches are made in Switzerland at the La Chaux-de-Fonds workshops. These watches signify the finest visionary elegance and the pursuit for vicissitude. Timepieces by Dior, are a medley of...
MADRID (AFP) UNESCO has added a number of European sites to its World Heritage List, including the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal in Wales, a Spanish lighthouse, and two Swiss watch manufacturing towns. The UN cultural...
Straight as an arrow: the main street in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Keystone) The twin watchmaking hubs of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle have been awarded World Heritage status by Unesco, the Paris-based United Nations culture...
The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed a Spanish lighthouse dating back to antiquity, The Tower of Hercules in La Coruña, on the...
While there are many luxury watches on the high end wrist watch market today, not many are as popular, nor as desirable as the Breitling Navitimer Watch series. Besides it unique and fashionable styling, this chronograph has...
