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He married into the nobility. His son, Hubert Jean-Baptiste Rohault de Fleury, born in 1750, was an advocate of the Parliament of Paris and keeper of the records of the Company of the Indies. Charles Hubert Rohault de Fleury was one of his two sons, born on 2 July 1777. His brother, Baron Hubert Rohault de Fleury, had a distinguished military ...
A scion of the Italian Binda Group dynasty, best known for making Breil watches, Carlo Crocco left the company in 1976, to start a watch company. Moving to Switzerland he formed MDM Geneve and set about designing a watch that he named the Hublot after the French word for "porthole".
In 1865, at the age of 22, George Favre-Jacot began manufacturing watches under his name at a small workshops in Le Locle, Switzerland. After witnessing the success of American watch companies Waltham and Elgin utilizing mass production to sell affordable and reliable timepieces, he invested heavily in his own company to create a vertically integrated watchmaking operation, becoming the first ...
Hamilton Watch Company: 1892 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. Bienne: Subsidiary: The Swatch Group: Hanowa: 1963 Biel/Bienne: Hans Noll Elisabeth Noll-Wirz Möhlin: Public: ILG - International Luxury Group: Paris C. Brown : Hublot: 1980 Nyon: 200 Subsidiary: LVMH: Carlo Crocco (founder) Ricardo Guadalupe (CEO) IWC Schaffhausen: 1868 [1 ...
Samsung; Sandoz watches; Schwarz Etienne; Sea-Gull; Sector; Seiko; Seiko Instruments; Seikosha; Sekonda; Shinola Detroit; Sinn; SSIH (previous holding company, now ...
Waltham Watch Company. pocket watch. Georg Friedrich Roskopf (1813–1889), German watchmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Roskopf escapement. Matthäus Hipp (1813–1893), German clockmaker, Bern, electric precision pendulum clock. Edward Howard (1813–1904), American watchmaker and manufacturer, Waltham Watch Company, pocket watch.
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Fred Joaillier, more commonly known as Fred, is a French jewellery and watch brand founded in 1936 by Fred Samuel in Paris and operated by the company "Fred Paris". The company has more than fifty of its own shops worldwide and various retail outlets in some thirty countries. [1] The company has been owned by the LVMH Group since 1995. [2]