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Today, La Chaux-de-Fonds remains the administrative, and in many ways the spiritual, heart of the Swiss watch industry.
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Meanwhile, Ireland's Ciaran McDonagh set a new Irish long jump record of 8.07m at Sunday's meeting La-Chaux-de-Fonds.
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The Belfast athlete's time of 46.63 in finishing second in the Swiss meeting in La-Chaux-de-Fonds cut .32 of a second off his best time this season.
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More than that, La Chaux-de-Fonds is essentially the watchmaking capital of the world, home to the workshops or corporate headquarters of Rolex and Patek Philippe, Tissot and Girard-Perregaux, Ebel and Omega, many of which were founded here.
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Messrs Vacheron and Breguet, two of the first men to make a success of Swiss watchmaking, started their workshops in the middle of the 18th Century in Geneva, but La Chaux-de-Fonds, about 150km to the northeast, is where Swiss watchmaking became the world standard.
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