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Remembering Nicolas Hayek, Switzerland’s great entrepreneur

Nicolas Hayek was born in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and an American-Lebanese father. After studying physics, mathematics and chemistry in France, he married a Swiss and came to Switzerland at the end of the 1940s. In the 80s he entered the watch industry. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

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