Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tissot was founded in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel canton of the Jura Mountains area. [2] The father and son team worked as a casemaker (Charles-Félicien Tissot) and watchmaker (Charles-Emile). His son having expressed an interest in watchmaking from a young ...
Technos (watches) 1924 Welschenrohr: Joseph Gunzinger Tissot: 1853 [3] Le Locle [3] Charles-Félicien Tissot, Charles-Emile Tissot [3] Le Locle: 250 Subsidiary The Swatch Group: Sylvain Dolla Georges Nicolas Hayek Jr. (chairman of the board) Titoni: 1919 Grenchen Fritz Schluep Grenchen: 60 Private Daniel Schluep Tudor Watches: 1926 Geneva: Hans ...
Then in 2009, possibly due to available production capacity or stocked parts, Tissot reintroduced the Autoquartz in its PRC200 dive watch. The Autoquartz movement used by Tissot is gold plated and carries the designation ETA 205.914. [citation needed] Movement calibers: [citation needed] 204.901 (small 8.75 lignes used primarily in women's watches)
Mathey-Tissot is a Swiss watch maker of prestige watches, originally established in 1886 by Edmond Mathey-Tissot at Les Ponts-de-Martel in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Mathey-Tissot is an independent watchmaker, with its headquarters in Geneva. It is not associated with Tissot, another Swiss watchmaking firm.
That is, the watch should not delay at all, and the upper limit is 5 seconds fast in 24 hours. The criterion of resistance to magnetic fields is innovative. Until now, the ISO 764 Horology — Magnetic resistant watches standard defines that an antimagnetic watch must support a magnetic field of 4,800 A/m, which corresponds to 60 gauss. METAS ...
Tachymeter scale on a Citizen watch bezel. A tachymeter (pronounced / t æ ˈ k ɪ m ə t ər /) is a scale sometimes inscribed around the rim of an analog watch with a chronograph.It can be used to conveniently compute the frequency in inverse-hours of an event of a known second-defined period, such as speed (distance over hours) based on travel time (distance over speed), or measure distance ...
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 ...
Tissot, a Swiss luxury watchmaker, makes the Silen-T wristwatch with a touch-sensitive face that vibrates to help the user to tell time eyes-free. The bezel of the ...