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Ernest FrancillonAuguste Agassiz, a young merchant, moved to St Imier in Switzerland, in 1832. He operated what today would have been known as a virtual corporation using home-workers to create watches that he sold.
In 1854 he handed responsibility of the business to his nephew, Ernest Francillon.
He realised that outsourcing did not produce consistency of quality.
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He built a
factory in Les Longines. It started producing chronographs in 1879. In 1912 the
company produced the first automatic timekeeping device - the wire cutting
system. From that day Longines has long been associated with time-keeping at
major sporting events.
