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The first microbrands debuted in the early to mid-2000s. With the advent of the Internet , brands were able to distribute watches directly to consumers within e-commerce, without taking on the overhead usually associated with luxury goods such as retail locations , marketing budgets, and other associated costs.
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.
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The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957.
A "watch brand" is often—but incorrectly—used as a synonym of "watch manufacturer" or "watchmaker".Brands are distinct from manufacturers. There are brands of watches that are purely marketing constructs and are not associated with a specific company.
A microbrand is a small-scale brand recognized only in a certain geographic location, or by consumers in a specific micromarket or niche market. [1] The majority of microbrands are owned by a microbusiness, though this trend is changing due to the expansion of the Internet and advancement of micromarketing tools.
In 1888 the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from 1864 bought the Hampden Watch Company of New York, in operation since 1877. Dueber moved them both to Canton, Ohio, where Hampden used the Dueber cases until the companies merged in 1923. Pocket watch sales declined after World War I, and the business closed in 1927.
Nixon is an American watches, accessories and audio brand, founded in 1997 in Encinitas, California, United States. [1] Focused on the youth lifestyle market. Currently sold in 80 countries worldwide, [citation needed] Nixon maintains stand-alone retail stores in Berkeley, California as well as Bondi & Melbourne, Australia and Kuta, Bali.