There is a Laser Ranging station in Zimmerwald which is related to
METAS. They measure distance of artificial satellites down to few
millimeters by fly time of sub-nanosecond laser pulses, so they have
very accurate time-interval measurement systems.
There is also a nice Museum d'horlogerie in Le Locle, near Neuchatel :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Locle
Best regards,
Jean-Louis
On 15/03/2018 12:22, Pete Stephenson wrote:
Also worth mentioning is the Swiss standards organization, METAS, in Bern.
Their time and frequency group has a few atomic clocks, a maser, and some other
shiny things they use for realizing UTC(CH), as well as a few research projects
related to the subject. While not formally open to the public, they do tours on
request.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, at 9:18 AM, Bernd Neubig wrote:
Hi Dave,
the center of the Swiss watch & crystal industry is the small town of
Grenchen, location of many famous watch makers including the SMH group
which includes Microcrystal, previously also Oscilloquartz, and the
following wathc brands:
Prestige and Luxury:
Breguet (CH)
Blancpain (CH)
Glashütte Original (D)
Jaquet Droz (CH)
Léon Hatot (CH)
Harry Winston (USA)
Omega (CH)
Upper price segment:
Longines (CH)
Rado (CH)
Union Glashütte (D)
Middle price segment:
Tissot (CH)
Calvin Klein (CH)
Balmain (CH)
Certina (CH)
Mido (CH)
Hamilton (CH)
Base segment:
Swatch (CH)
Flik Flak (CH)
Private Label:
Endura (CH)
A few km away is Neuchatel (Neuenburg), a center of time and frequency
companies.
I am not familiar with museums in that area, but I am sure there are
some. I think someone else on the list will have more details.
The whole area is the so-called "Swiss Jura".
The area of time & frequency companies and institutes extends into
France up to Besancon.
Neuchatel and Besancon are the locations where the EFTF (European Time
and Frequency Forum) started and is taking place in one of both every
two years.
Best regards
Bernd
DK1AG
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Von: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von David Witten
Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. März 2018 22:59
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [time-nuts] Suggest time-and-tech related locations in Switzerland
My wife and I are traveling to Switzerland for the last week in May. I
have never been there before.
I would appreciate suggestions for time / tech sites of interest to visit.
We plan to fly to Zurich, but travel immediately to Geneva and then work
our way back to Zurich by train, stopping (at least) in Bern.
I would like to see what I can at CERN, I plan to attend the Ham meeting
in in Friedrichshafen June 1 - 3.
Dave
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