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Locle, Le

Commune in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on the French border 55 km/34 mi from Bern; population (1995) 11,000. Watches have been made here since 1705; Le Locle rivals the nearby town of La-Chaux-de-Fonds as the centre of the Swiss watchmaking industry.
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The votes are in, and the watch-making towns of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, reported the online news source swiss-info.
UNESCO inscribes Swiss watch-making towns by Swiss News
Others in Europe included The Tower of Hercules in Spain, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle watchmaking towns in Switzerland and Slovakia's Levoca, with a historic town centre.
UNESCO names 16 World Heritage sites, removes Dresden by AFP / AFP Global Edition
THE MERCURY COLLECTIONMercury, the name given to the new Favre-Leuba collection, is inspired by two unique events - the birth of the Favre Manufacture in Le Locle in 1737 and the eclipse of the planet Mercury by Venus in the same year.
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