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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.
Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry: 1982 Bienne: Jean-Daniel Pasche Fortis (Swiss watchmaker) 1912 [1] Grenchen [1] Walter Vogt [1] Grenchen 40 Privately held company: Owner and CEO - Jupp Philipp Franck Muller: 1992 Geneva: Private company Franck Muller Frédérique Constant SA: 1988 Aletta and Peter Stas Geneva: Subsidiary of Citizen Holdings
Tatsuro Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田達郎, Hepburn: Toyoda Tatsurō, June 1, 1930 – Deсember 30, 2017) [1] was the brother of Shoichiro and the son of Toyota Motor Corporation founder, Kiichiro Toyoda.
Companies designing and assembling watches with movements made by third parties should be in Category:Watch brands. Companies who have discontinued manufacturing watches should also be placed in Category:Defunct watchmaking companies. Individuals (dead or alive) engaged in making watches should be in Category:Watchmakers (people).
A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.
Waltham Watch Company. pocket watch. Georg Friedrich Roskopf (1813–1889), German watchmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Roskopf escapement. Matthäus Hipp (1813–1893), German clockmaker, Bern, electric precision pendulum clock. Edward Howard (1813–1904), American watchmaker and manufacturer, Waltham Watch Company, pocket watch.
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.
For Toyota, the factory gave the company its first manufacturing base in North America allowing it to avoid any future tariffs on imported vehicles and saw GM as a partner who could show them how to navigate the American labor environment. The plant would be led by Tatsuro Toyoda, the younger brother of company president Shoichiro Toyoda. [54]