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2. Breitling CEO on 'crazy' growth in watch market; why Rolex ...

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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 ...

3. List of most expensive watches sold at auction - Wikipedia

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   The following table shows the brand breakdown of the most expensive watches ever sold at auction (for at least US$1.5 million). As of December 2022, there are 19 manufacturers that have manufactured watches that qualify: Patek Philippe, Rolex, Breguet, Audemars Piguet, Philippe Dufour, F. P. Journe, George Daniels, Richard Mille, URWERK, Zenith ...

4. Breitling SA - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Patek Philippe - Wikipedia

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   The timepiece boasts 21 complications, including Westminster Chimes, minute repeating, lunar orbit and so on, and was made in 2008. [ 76 ] On November 11, 2014, the Henry Graves Supercomplication was sold at Sotheby's Geneva Auction for a record-breaking US$23.98 million ( CHF 23,237,000), becoming the most expensive watch ever sold at auction ...

6. Breitling Chronomat - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Tourbillon - Wikipedia

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   Tourbillon. In horology, a tourbillon (/ tʊərˈbɪljən /; French: [tuʁbijɔ̃] "whirlwind") is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement to increase accuracy. Conceived by the British watchmaker and inventor John Arnold, it was developed by his friend the Swiss-French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet and patented by Breguet on 26 ...