Vintage Fisher Scientific 14-646 Stopwatch Swiss Made Great condition Leonidas

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Vintage
Fisher Scientific 14-646 Stopwatch
- Swiss Made -
Great condition
working well. See video
Made by Leonidas
LEONIDAS® was founded in 1841, some 120 years later it merged with Heuer creating the largest manufacturer of stopwatches and chronographs in Switzerland, and established Heuer-Leonidas as one of the biggest and most influential watch brands in the world.
During the 80's the company came under increasing pressure to compete with the influx of cheaper quartz models from China. The brand's reluctance to compromise quality over price saw Heuer-Leonidas become Tag-Heuer with Leonidas falling by the wayside.
It was in 2015 that Leonidas first tiptoed back into the watch making arena with the 5024, their first stand alone model since falling victim to the quartz crisis some 50 years earlier.
The Leonidas Watch Factory traces its origins to 1841 in Saint-Imier, was merged with Heuer in 1964, and the brand was retired after the company became TAG Heuer in 1985. It was a large-scale producer of chronographs and stop watches and is associated with the Bourquin and Jeanneret families and Beau-Site area of the town. The brand was typically written as “Léonidas” through the 1930s, though the acute e was rarely used after this.