Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:42 AM 6/12/99 -0700, Jim Brick wrote: >I can tell you about Swiss watch movements and Alpa cameras since I was >personal friends with the Bourgeois (Samuel and Benjamin) who started as >watch movement makers and branched into cameras. Alpa cameras grew out of >the watch business. As did the Leica camera. Ernst Leitz I began as an apprentice in a Swiss watch company. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!