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Watchmaking Piaget SA: 1874 La Côte-aux-Fées: Georges Edouard Piaget Geneva: Subsidiary Richemont: Georges Edouard Piaget . Yves Piaget Chabi Nouri (Chief Executive Officer) Purnell (company) 2017 Maurizio Mazzocchi (CEO) Geneva: Private: Rado (watchmaker) 1917 Lengnau: Fritz Schlup Ernst Schlup Werner Schlup Raymond Weil: 1976 Raymond Weil
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.
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IWC factory in Schaffhausen. In 1869 F.A. Jones rented the first factory premises in an industrial building owned by J.H. Moser at the Rheinstrasse. Having to rent further rooms in the Oberhaus By 1874 plans were already being made for a new factory and a site was purchased from Moser's hydroelectric company.
Under Sandoz's leadership, the company became the Cyma Watch Company and built the Cyma factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in the Jura Mountains, near Le Locle. Both towns had been the center of the Swiss watchmaking industry during the 19th century. In 1959 the brand was bought by the Heuroplan group, joining Movado, Eska and Nappey. [4]
In 1770, philosopher Voltaire supports the establishment of watchmaking workshops in Ferney-Voltaire near Geneva and Manufacture Royale is established. It is then an important producer of timepieces and the famous Jean-Antoine Lépine, clockmaker to the king, is one of its watchmakers.
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Daniel Roth is a luxury watch manufacturer based in the Vallée de Joux, Switzerland. The company was created by Daniel Roth in 1989 and was acquired by the Bulgari Group in 2000. [1] Daniel Roth has workshops in Le Sentier as well as in Geneva, which it shares with its sister company Gerald Genta.