LANCASTER - ITALIAN STYLE PRECISION WITHOUT TIME... Once upon the time... Just before the famous watchmaker Christiaan Huygens (the great Dutch astronomer and inventor of the application of the balance wheel to the timepiece in the mid-1600s) passed away he summoned his best apprentice, one Edward Higgins, who hailed from the English city of Lancaster. On his deathbed, Huygens revealed to Higgins the secrets of how to carry on the fortunes of the firms. Thus it was that Higgins developed the watchmaker`s company into an Industrial outfit; the timepieces, until then exclusive to the rich nobility, was soon to become and indispensable instruments for the measurement of time, so much so that it was adopted officially by those paragons of timekeeping, the Swiss railways. Meanwhile, though, as time went by, for all his fame and fortune, homesickness was to prey upon Edward Higgins. Making him miss his beloved hometown more and more; this is was that prompted him to call his watchmaker`s business Lancaster.
Nearly 200 years have passed since then, but Higgins great tradition lives on in the Lancaster factories of today...

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