Towards the end of 1977, Luc Tissot’s growing awareness of the importance of diversifying the watchmaking sector prompted him – with the help of Kontron SA – to create Precimed. The objective of this new company was to use high level watchmaking technology to design the first Swiss pacemaker. Precimed’s debut In 1977, the watchmaking […]
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Eric Marguet studied in France at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Besançon in Mechanical Engineering. He has been living in St-Imier, Switzerland since 1995, where he continued his studies at He-Arc St-Imier (at the time, an ETS Microtechnology engineer) and completed his training with a Master’s degree in Computer Science. He is 50% design […]
What is your professional background in a few words? My name is Laurent Zwahlen and I am 62 this year. I went to the Technical School in Le Locle, and got Federal Certificate of Competence as an electronic equipment assembler. I worked two years as a technician. Then, I worked at Swiss Timing as head […]
As part of the Rosetta mission, on 12 November 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) outdid its American counterpart NASA for the first time, by achieving the feat of landing on a comet. Thanks to an unprecedented marketing campaign, the whole world held its breath and watched live as the Philae robot touched down. This […]
If you walk through the streets of Chaux-de-Fonds, there is every chance you will encounter the name of Charles-Edouard Guillaume. It may mean nothing to you, yet in the 19th century this lesser-known Neuchâtel researcher played a crucial role in the development of precision watchmaking. As the inventor of two families of alloy still used […]
Watches, luggage, vacuum cleaners, even bikes… since 2010, connected objects have proven revolutionary, becoming increasingly present in our everyday lives. Faced with this surge, the networks responsible for connectivity must adapt. While everyone is talking about the arrival of 5G, another kind of technology has been quietly proving itself in the background: the LoRa (long […]
Discover the companies, which make up the economic fabric of Neuchâtel! In which sector does Vitrocsa operate? The company Vitrocsa (Vitres-Orchidée-Construction SA) was founded following the invention of the modern minimalist window by Eric Joray. In 2019, the company has around twenty employees at Saint-Aubin in Neuchâtel. We devote most of our time to Research […]