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2. List of Swiss watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Tissot - Wikipedia

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   Tissot SA (French pronunciation:) is a Swiss watch brand owned by the Swatch Group. [1] The company was founded in Le Locle, Switzerland by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son, Charles-Émile Tissot, in 1853. [2] [3] Tissot is not associated with Mathey-Tissot, another Swiss watchmaking firm.

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

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   Finally, any auctioned watch without public online records from auctioneers (e.g. major auction houses) will not be included in the ranking. As of December 2022, the most expensive watch (and wristwatch) ever sold at auction is the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 6300A-010, fetching US$31.19 million (31,000,000 CHF) in Geneva on 9 ...

5. E. Howard & Co. - Wikipedia

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   E. Howard & Co. was a clock and watch company formed by Edward Howard and Charles Rice in 1858, after the demise of the Boston Watch Company.The pair acquired some of the material and watches in progress, based upon a lien against the defunct company held by Rice, but they were unable to buy the existing factory or machinery, so they moved to Roxbury.

6. Waltham Watch Company - Wikipedia

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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.

7. Tourbillon - Wikipedia

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   Tourbillon movement (high resolution)In horology, a tourbillion (/ t ʊər ˈ b ɪ l j ən /) or tourbillon (/ t ʊər b ɪ ˈ j ɒ n /; French: [tuʁbijɔ̃] "whirlwind") is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement to increase accuracy.

8. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   Some watches of this period had the setting-arbor at the front of the watch, so that removing the crystal and bezel was necessary to set the time. Watch keys are the origin of the class key, common paraphernalia for American high-school and university graduation. Many keywind watch movements make use of a fusee, to improve isochronism. The ...

9. General Watch Co - Wikipedia

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   Following repeated crises in the Swiss watch industry, by the 1970s ASUAG (as well as SSIH, the other major Swiss Watch holding company) was once again in trouble. Foreign competition, in particular the Japanese watch industry, with its mass production of cheap new electronic products and new technology, was rapidly establishing a strong ...