Léon Breitling b. 27 Jan 1860 Saint-Imier, Jura, Bern, Switzerland d. 11 Aug 1914 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Swiss Genealogy

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Name	Léon Breitling [1, 2]
Birth	27 Jan 1860	Saint-Imier, Jura, Bern, Switzerland [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Occupation	entrepreneur [1]
Occupation	founder of the watch manufacturing company Breitling SA [1]
Occupation	watchmaker [1]
Death	11 Aug 1914	La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [1, 2]
Burial	Cimetière de la Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [2]
Person ID	I1	Breitling Genealogy
Last Modified	6 Jan 2025

Father	Jacob Breitling, b. Abt. 1823, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Mother	Elisabeth Affolter, b. 1832
Family ID	F5	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family M. Lina Theurillat, b. 15 Aug 1852 d. 7 Mar 1921 (Age 68 years)

Marriage 12 Jun 1882

Children

+	1. Gaston Léon Breitling, b. 22 Sep 1884, Saint-Imier, Jura, Bern, Switzerland d. 30 Jul 1927, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Age 42 years)
+	2. Angèle Olga Breitling, b. 6 Dec 1891, Saint-Imier, Jura, Bern, Switzerland d. 17 Mar 1979 (Age 87 years)

Family ID F1 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 6 Dec 2024

[S1] "Léon Breitling," Wikipedia, last modified 8 Dec 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Breitling.
[S3] Find a Grave, Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line], (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).

Léon Breitling