Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — Watch Manufacture in Switzerland. [ARTICLE]

Watch Manufacture in Switzerland.

The manufacture of watches in Switzerland is almost exclusively confined to the French-speaking cantons of Geneva, Neuchatel and Valid, and to Berne. Neuchatel manufactures about 1,000,000 watches a year, worth on the average $lO each; while in the Vaud about 8,000 persons are employed in making watches and music boxes. In the Canton of Berne there are 13,000 men and women engaged in watchmaking, and their labor is estimated to yield $6,000,000 per annum. Never say “dye,” whatever may bo the fashionable color for hair.