Movement based on the Swiss invention patent No. 359, delivered on January 12, 1889, to A. Lugrin, L’Orient-de-l’Orbe (Vallée de Joux), for a “Perfectionnements apportés à la construction des chronographes-compteurs” (Improvements in the construction of chronograph-counters).

The company A. Lugrin & Cie was founded in 1884 by Alfred Lugrin (1858-1920), a young watchmaker who worked for LeCoultre & Cie (1879-1884). This company will become Lemania.

This patent is used in particular by the horological factory of Jules-Frédéric Jeanneret of Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura), founded in 1866 and continued after his death (1890) by his widow, then his sons, under the name Albert Jeanneret & Frères. This company became the Excelsior Park company. Watches with or without split-seconds are known to have been made with this patent and sold by S. Smith & Sons, London.