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This category is intended to list articles on companies (but not individuals) that once made watches (pocketwatches or wristwatches), but which are no longer operating. Dead individual watchmakers should be categorized at Category:Watchmakers (people)
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton. The film was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. [2] The film had 1,013,842 admissions in France and was the 35th most attended film of the year. [3]
Eterna, detail Eterna-Matic, Cal. 1414U, 1958. Eterna is a Swiss watch company founded in Grenchen, Canton Solothurn, on 7 November 1856 by Josef Girard and Urs Schild. [1] The company is now owned by Hong Kong–based Citychamp Watch & Jewellery Group Limited, an investment holding company formerly known as China Haidian Holdings.
SSIH (previous holding company, now integrated into Swatch Group) Skagen Designs; Skechers; Alexander Shorokhoff; Slazenger; Slava watches; Slow watch; Roger W. Smith; SMH (short for Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie previous name of the company issued from the merger of ASUAG & SSIH, now Swatch Group) Solvil et Titus; Sony ...
Death Watch (La Mort en direct), a 1980 Franco-German-British science fiction film shot in Glasgow; Deathwatch, a 2002 war/horror film set during World War I "Death-Watch", the twelfth episode of Series C of Blake's 7 first broadcast 24 March 1980; Death Watch, a Mandalorian sect in the Star Wars expanded universe
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: Niels Eggerding, Managing Director: Gallet & Company: 1466 Geneva Humbertus Gallet Privately held company: General Watch Co: Girard-Perregaux ...
Timex Group USA, Inc. (formerly known as Timex Corporation) is an American global watch manufacturing company founded in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company in Waterbury, Connecticut.
The history of watches began in 16th-century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century. The watch was developed by inventors and engineers from the 16th century to the mid-20th century as a mechanical device, powered by winding a mainspring which turned gears and then moved the ...