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This list is a duplicate of Category:Watch brands, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname.
The back plate has various shapes: Full plate movement In this design, used in the earliest pocketwatches until the 18th century, the back plate was also circular. All the parts of the watch were mounted between the two plates except the balance wheel, which was mounted on the outside of the back plate, held by a bracket called the balance cock.
Swiss watch brand Christelle Rosnoblet (CEO) Squale Watches: 1959 Neuchâtel: Charles von Büren Chiasso: Andrea Maggi, Massimo Maggi Swatch: 1983 Biel: Subsidiary: The Swatch Group: Nick Hayek Jr. (chairman, president) TAG Heuer: 1860 [1] Saint-Imier [1] Edouard Heuer [1] [2] La Chaux-de-Fonds: Wholly owned subsidiary: LVMH: Frédéric Arnault ...
Watch movement manufacturing companies. Pages in category "Watch movement manufacturers" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
ETA is the result of successive consolidation of the Swiss watch industry, a combination of several former Swiss watch movement manufacturers including Valjoux, Peseux [1] [2] and Lemania. In 1856 at Grenchen, Urs Schild, a schoolmaster, and Dr. Girard set up a watch movement factory which eventually became Eterna. In 1926, ETA AS (the movement ...
Thomas Mudge, inventor of the lever escapement. The lever escapement, invented by Thomas Mudge in 1754 [18] and improved by Josiah Emery in 1785, gradually came into use from about 1800 onwards, chiefly in Britain; it was also adopted by Abraham-Louis Breguet, but Swiss watchmakers (who by now were the chief suppliers of watches to most of Europe) mostly adhered to the cylinder until the 1860s.
Georges Louis Ruedin (1870–1935), Swiss watch producer, Berner Jura, director of the Société Horlogère Reconvilier. Jens Olsen (1872–1945), Danish clockmaker, Ribe, astronomical world clock in Copenhagen. Jämes Pellaton (1873–1954), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, tourbillon. Louis Cartier (1875–1942), French watchmaker, Paris, Cartier ...
The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.