References in the Grail Atlas catalog made in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
La Chaux-de-Fonds is the higher of the two Neuchâtel-Jura watchmaking towns (the lower is Le Locle) and was rebuilt on a grid plan after a 1794 fire, partly so the daylight in every workshop ran the same way. Karl Marx singled it out in Capital as a model of the manufacture-as-distributed-craft system; the modern town hosts TAG Heuer, Greubel Forsey, the Breitling Chronométrie manufacture, and the École d'Horlogerie that trained much of the rest of the Neuchâtel trade. La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle together form a UNESCO World Heritage Site, designated for their planned urban fabric built around the watch trade.
