de fonds neuch tel switzerland key people eugene blum founder alice levy founder products watches website www.ebel.com ebel is a swiss luxury watch company founded in 1911 in la chaux de fonds neuch tel switzerland by eugene blum and alice levy . contents 1 the brand 1.1 e.b.e.l. 1.2 the architects of time 2 sources and references the brand edit e.b.e.l. edit in 1911 eug ne blum found together with alice blum n e l vy an etablissage workshop in la chaux de fonds . by combining the first letters of both names eug ne blum et l vy the brand name ebel was created . in 1932 charles the son of the founder took over the management of the company . he built the sales network of the business by further expands it into many foreign countries including united states . under the direction of blum s grandson pierre alain the company took a significant upturn since the beginning of the 1970s and produced wristwatches for cartier . the company was part of lvmh group until the end of the 2003 . by the end of 2003 lvmh sold ebel to movado group for 62.2 million . 1 the architects of time edit ebel has long sponsored the work of famous architects such as le corbusier who was born in la chaux de fonds andree putman 2 or in the early 1990s contemporary swiss painters such as jean arcelin . in 1986 the villa turque an early masterpiece of le corbusier has been acquired by the group for its 75th anniversary to served both as a reminder of its core values and as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the brand . 3 sources and references edit official website ebel history amywatch 2 lvmh sells ebel . lvmh . se . retrieved december 23 2003 . . q cache ekck496wevcj www.public.asu.edu jabern voices in design symposium andree.htm ebel andree putman & cd 2 & hl en & ct clnk & gl us & source www.google.com biography of andree putman 1 quote from villa turque ebel official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ebel & oldid 738588144 categories watch manufacturing companies of switzerlandcompanies established in 1911 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 21 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view