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NECCHI VITTORIO Macchine da cucire - VITTORIO NECCHI Sewing Machines LE ORIGINI – The Origins
Heir to a family of founders, Ambrose Necchi undertaken and continued the craft inherited from his father and grandfather. At the end of 1880 took over the family factory in the center of Pavia, which gave work to 170. workers. The company built parts for cast iron mechanical machines and no one ever thought would become the sewing machine factory largest in Italy and one of the largest in the world. In 1919, Vittorio Necchi, son of Ambrose, who returned from the front of the First World War, only male family and most importantly having lost his father some years before, he found himself on the shoulders of the management of the foundry family. Initially had no inclination for mechanics, he was interested only in classical studies, photography and animal husbandry. From the insistent request of his wife to buy a sewing machine, (at that time was that the object could not miss in the family) was the idea that intuition could be right since then in Italy does not c 'had no sewing machine factory, continuing the fruitful work of his family history but with something new by using part of the cast iron foundries producing family. THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST ITALIAN SEWING MACHINE A crazy idea, which meant turn against foreign competition as the Singer machines, German, American and Russian. He opened a small factory to Torrettina on the way Vigentina with about forty workers, taking a cue from machines where competition created the first machine mod. BD: It was a failure.
But little by little, with a capillary action of propaganda, managed to overcome distrust of the national product, combining quality at favorable price. So much so that in 1924 the production moved to the new site of the parade ground where increased production substantially. But the boom came in 1932 when, with his loyal staff had built the first sewing machine to stitch family with "zig-zag", the "BU", which was used to run thousands of ornaments without accessories and different points , to mend the attack buttons and make buttonholes.
NECCHI The sewing machine became the most imitated and sought after worldwide. After the war events of World War II, Vittorio Necchi directs the largest sewing machine factory in Italy and one of the largest in the world, produces more than 1,000 machines a day, has 4,500 employees and 10,000 stores selling and is known around the world. After the success of the mod. BU, NECCHI created the Supernova and Supernova Automatic, MIRELLA he came out, a masterpiece of functionality and aesthetics, which won the "Golden Compass" and grand prize of the XI Triennale di Milano. Who has had the good fortune to meet or interview Vittorio Necchi, reluctant and humble person, so that you bring lunch from home in the basket, to the primary school, to be always in the company, will certainly have noticed that his greatest passion , Of which I was proud, was the breeding of pheasants and the cultivation of orchids in his estate of Portalupi, as well as boasting a skilled hunter. Internet sites dedicated to Necchi - Sewing machines