• The low-priced Timex brand is launched in America.
• Jaeger-LeCoultre introduces the Wrist Alarm, which would soon be re-branded as the Memovox.
• Michel Parmigiani is born in Couvet and spends his youth in the Val-de-Travers, a remote valley of the Swiss canton of Neuchatel. Later he becomes founder of the well-known watch manufacturer Parmigiani,
• Paul Gerber is born in Bern.

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