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The largest watch company
The Swatch watch company owns many Luxury Watch brands Swatch was originally intended to re-capture entry level market share lost by Swiss manufacturers during the aggressive growth of Japanese companies such as Seiko in the 1960s and 1970s, and to re-popularize analog watches at a time when digital watches had achieved wide popularity. The launch [...]
The history of Automatic Watches
First of all What are Automatic Watches? They should be called Watches with an Automatic movement. Here is some historical information. * Perrelet The Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Perrelet invented a self-winding mechanism in 1770 for pocket watches. It worked on the same principle as a modern pedometer, and was designed to wind as the owner [...]
The Top Four Watch Makers
Once upon a time, long before the wristwatch was invented, the best clocks in the world came from England. The trouble was that they were rather big. This did not matter if their function was to act as a ship’s chronometer but it did get slightly awkward if, like all fashionable men, you tried to [...]
What is Movado
You always here us ranting about Movado but who really are they? Here is some company history for you! The company is most renowned for its Museum watches that feature a black clock face with a single gold point at twelve o’clock. This is the minimalist look made famous for Movado by American designer Nathan [...]
Sarcar watches now in the UAE
Sarcar produces limited and numbered pieces per year. The Managing Director, Maya Koenig, believes that is the right strategy for the company to continue. She explains: “That’s a perfect reason for us to stay small because that’s how we ensure our exclusivity and focus. At Sarcar, our mission is to create dreams for the most [...]
Are mechanical movements making a comeback?
What you read here may shock you! Mechanical watches seemed near extinction just 25 years ago. Today, they not only dominate luxury watch making but also are profit centers for other watches. Maurice Lacroix, for example, expects 90 percent of its watches to be mechanical by 2012. Nearly 60 percent of Hamilton’s watches are [...]
The History of the Swatch Watch Company
Swatch is a brand name for a line of wrist watches from the Swatch Group, a Swiss conglomerate with vertical control of the production of Swiss watches and related products. In 1982, Swatch was conceived and it was introduced on the market in Switzerland in March 1983. A Swatch Watch Origin Swatch was originally intended [...]
Audemars Piguet History Extended
Audemars Piguet founded by Jules Audemars & Edouard Piguet in 1875.Audemars Piguet watches are hand crafted some of the most prominent watchmakers in the world. The technical and aesthetic performances of all Audemars Piguet watches within their Classic collection have their roots in the tradition of Haute Horlogerie, a domain where Audemars Piguet Watches have [...]
Movado History
Movado is a Swiss luxury watch company whose name is Esperanto for “movement”. It has proven to be a prophetic name for a company committed to design innovation and time technology since 1881. Movado was founded in 1881 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Achilles Ditesheim. Achille Ditesheim was clearly an entrepreneur by any century’s definition. [...]
