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Le Locle

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Le Locle, a town of some 10,000 inhabitants, was the home of a brilliant Neuchatel goldsmith, Daniel Jean Richard, in the 17th century. The birth of the watch and clock-making industry of the Neuchatel mountains is generally attributed to him.
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La Chaux-de-Fonds

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The third-largest town in francophone Switzerland with its 38,000 inhabitants, situated at 1,000 metres, La Chaux-de-Fonds is the cradle of the clock and watch making industry and home to “Le Corbusier”, Blaise Cendrars and Louis Chevrolet.
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Neuchatel

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Capital of the Canton of Neuchatel. The town has some 32,000 inhabitants, is surrounded by 61 communes, which together form the Canton of Neuchatel with 167,900 inhabitants.
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