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Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry: 1982 Bienne: Jean-Daniel Pasche Fortis (Swiss watchmaker) 1912 [1] Grenchen [1] Walter Vogt [1] Grenchen 40 Privately held company: Owner and CEO - Jupp Philipp Franck Muller: 1992 Geneva: Private company Franck Muller Frédérique Constant SA: 1988 Aletta and Peter Stas Geneva: Subsidiary of Citizen Holdings
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The Swatch Group Ltd is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewellery. The company was founded in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, moving to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve the quartz crisis threatening the traditional Swiss watchmaking industry. [2] [3] [4] The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world ...
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Swatch is a Swiss watch company founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which inexpensive, battery-powered, quartz-regulated watches were competing against more established European watchmakers focused on artisanal craftsmanship ...
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Many fashions and department stores offer a variety of less-expensive, trendy, "costume" watches (usually for women), many of which are similar in quality to basic quartz timepieces but which feature bolder designs. In the 1980s, the Swiss Swatch company hired graphic designers to redesign a new annual collection of non-repairable watches.
Companies designing and assembling watches with movements made by third parties should be in Category:Watch brands. Companies who have discontinued manufacturing watches should also be placed in Category:Defunct watchmaking companies. Individuals (dead or alive) engaged in making watches should be in Category:Watchmakers (people).