Girard-Perregaux sample di Neuchâtel

Girard-Perregaux, the Swiss manufacturer of luxury, announces the opening of the exhibition Picture Japan at the Ethnographic Museum in Neuchâtel (MEN) in the city of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The introductory part of this exhibition curated by the MEN was inaugurated on 6 February 2014, a significant date as it coincides with the official commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the first Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Switzerland and Japan.
Pocket watches presented in the exhibition space of the museum were exported to Japan by François Perregaux who went there in the mid-nineteenth century, Swiss watches by introducing the "Land of the Rising Sun". Owned by the Girard-Perregaux Museum, these timepieces are a valuable witness of the bond that for over a century and a half binds the Swiss manufacturer of La Chaux-de-Fonds Japanese archipelago.
150 years ago: the 6 February, 1864 Choji in the temple in Edo (Tokyo) was signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between a Swiss delegation and representatives of the Japanese imperial government. This exceptional economic base between Switzerland and Japan, a bilateral agreement, was a huge success diplomatic and economic, and allowed the Swiss manufacturers to import their products officially in Japan.
Aimé Humbert: author of the first treaty between Switzerland and Japan, the man who was entrusted with the negotiation of this agreement, the Swiss government was Aimé Humbert (1819- 1900), also a native of La Chaux-de-Fonds, who was appointed to be the "Delegate Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Swiss Confederation in Japan". Arrived in the archipelago in April 1863, Humbert then had to wait almost a year before the Japanese authorities could agree to meet him. He used this time to visit the country, taking notes and collecting evidence, paintings, Print, Photos, etc., that would be the basis for the book on Japan that had already decided to publish.
Humbert was one of the first residents of the Francophone community in Japan, and Japan welcomed him along with his other fellow Swiss - among them, the orologiaio François Perregaux.
François Perregaux: pioneer the introduction of Swiss watches in Japan born in 1834, François Perregaux was immediately immersed in the world of watchmaking from his family, major traders watch the neighboring town of Le Locle. François Perregaux, brother of Marie Perregaux Constant Girard who with her husband founded the company that still bears their two surnames, was delegated by the watchmakers - the Union Horlogère - to create a bridge to export. Party for Asia nel 1859 ed aprì un negozio a Yokohama nel 1860, becoming the first dealer of Swiss watches to settle in the land of the Rising Sun, few years before the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of the above. In 1865, the merchant of Le Locle founded the company in Yokohama F. Perregaux & What. and was the official distributor of the Girard-Perregaux until his death in 1877.