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Locle, Le
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Locle, Le (lə lôk`lə), town (1990 pop. 11,313), Neuchâtel canton, NW Switzerland, in the Jura Mts. near the French border. It has been a watchmaking center since the 17th cent.


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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.
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.
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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