Urbach’s family ran a clothing store in District 4 of Zurich. His dream was actually to become a theater or film director. His mother, however, recommended that he apprentice as an optician instead of such a “hunger job.”
Urbach immigrated to the United States at the age of 24, where he applied for a patent from the mid-1960s for a color contact lens and, among other things, a process for manufacturing soft lenses for, according to media reports, Urbach’s website and social media account. found. The « Linkedin » media profile appears.
Accordingly, he returned to Switzerland permanently in 1979 and from 1996 headed the “Urbach Contactlinsen Institut” in Seidengasse, Zurich. In addition to her profession as an optician, Jacqueline Urbach also designed watches and jewelery and made sculptures. She exhibited the latter at the “Art International” 2004 in Zurich, among other places.
(SDA)