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The Dictionnaire professionnel illustré de l'horlogerie (The Illustrated Professional Dictionary of the Watchmaking Industry) defines manufacture as follows: . In the Swiss watch industry the term manufacture is used of a factory in which watches are manufactured almost completely, as distinct from an atelier de terminage, which is concerned only with assembling, timing, fitting the hands and ...
The Eberhard & Co manufacture was founded on 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the historic birthplace of the Swiss watchmaking industry [2] by George-Emile Eberhard.Eberhard was the son of a prominent Bernese family tracing its origins back to the 10th century, [3] which was involved in the development of the Swiss watchmaking industry.
Cortébert was a Swiss premium watch brand, manufacturing their own movements, supplying movements to other brands such as Rolex and introducing a jump-hour movement later adopted by IWC. When the quartz crisis hit the industry in the 1970s, the majority of prestige brands ceased production, including Cortébert.
Vanguart (watches) 2021 Switzerland: Thierry Fisher, Jeremy Frelechox, Axel Leuenberger, Mehmet Korutürk La Chaux-de-Fonds: Private: Romain Gauthier: 2002 Romain Gauthier Le Sentier and Vallée de Joux: Romain Gauthier Ronda (watchmaker) 1944 [3] Lausen [3] William Mosset [3] Lausen: 1,400 Rotary Watches: 1895 La Chaux-de-Fonds: Moise Dreyfuss
The "Watch Valley" covers all the Swiss Jura Arc, from Geneva to Basel, and is the primary location of the Swiss watch-making industry.Beginning initially in 15th century Geneva, the cradle of the European time keeping industry, and spreading north east through the Jura Mountains, the great majority of the companies related to the Swiss watch-making industry were first established.
Jean Louis Gallet becomes a French citizen and continues his father's jewelry and watch making company until his premature death in 1809 at age 35. 1826: Julien Gallet (1806–1849), son of Jean Louis, relocates the family watch making business to La Chaux-de-Fonds, [10] a major center for pocket watch production. At this time, the company is ...
A 1968 magazine ad of Sandoz watches in Persian, Zan-e Rooz. Henri Frédéric Sandoz (sometimes Frédéric Henri Sandoz), born in 1851, [1] was a self-made man of Le Locle who in the 1870s founded Henri Sandoz & Cie., later producing complicated watches under the name of Cyma.
IWC International Watch Co. AG, founded International Watch Company, better known as IWC Schaffhausen, is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. [1] Originally founded in Switzerland by American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868, the company was transferred to the Rauschenbach family in 1880 after ...