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Breitling Watches, the nearly 140-year-old Swiss watch brand, is still ticking and looking for more growth. The company’s sales are up, and revenue is rising for its private equity owners, the ...
Breitling SA was founded in Saint-Imier by Léon Breitling in 1884. [1] When Breitling died in 1914, the business passed to his son, Gaston, and then to his grandson, Willy, in 1935. Willy's children, however, were not interested in pursuing the family business, so the Breitling factory in La Chaux de Fonds closed in December 1978.
A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.
Georges Kern (born 25 January 1965) is a German-Swiss businessman, who has been CEO of Swiss watchmaker Breitling since 2017. He studied Political Science in Strasbourg, France, and graduated in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He acquired experience in the fast-moving-consumer-goods sector at Kraft Foods ...
Léon Breitling was born in 1860. His interest in watchmaking started at a very young age leading young Léon to initiate his first internship still as a teenager, a pursuit which would change the course of his life. In 1884 at the age of 24 years old he established his first business venture, the watchmaking company "G Leon Breitling" in Saint ...
The Chronomat was a patented design introduced in 1940 by Willy Breitling and the world's first two-pusher chronograph wristwatch. [6][7] The first model of the Chronomat collection had a circular slide rule and its design followed the appeal and design cues of the era for military watches. [1] The movement of the first Chronomat was the Venus ...
Breitling Colt is an entry-level luxury timepiece from Swiss watch company Breitling SA. The Colt has a stainless steel case with a set of four bezel rider tabs, which are a Breitling signature design detail first used on the Breitling Chronomat in 1984. [1] Breitling Colt models are powered by COSC -certified automatic movements or high ...
As of 2018, Patek Philippe World Time collection (Ref. 1415, Ref. 2523) holds 6 spots among the 58 world's most expensive watches sold at auction (over 2 million US dollars), with the world record being 4.027 million US dollars (6,603,500 CHF) made at Antiquorum's Geneva auction on April 13, 2002. [92] [93] Diagram of the Nautilus