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Beyer Watches & Jewellery (German: Beyer Uhren & Juwelen) is a watch and jewellery maker and retailer in Zürich, Switzerland. Located on Bahnhofstrasse, at its junction with Bärengasse, the business was established in 1760, making it the oldest watch retailer in the world. It is owned by René Beyer and Muriel Zahn-Beyer, members of the ...
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.
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]
The bank said declining gray market supply was due to rising retail prices for Rolex watches and falling prices paid for gray market watches, making flipping watches less profitable.
A 1968 magazine ad of Sandoz watches in Persian, Zan-e Rooz. Henri Frédéric Sandoz (sometimes Frédéric Henri Sandoz), born in 1851, [1] was a self-made man of Le Locle who in the 1870s founded Henri Sandoz & Cie., later producing complicated watches under the name of Cyma.
Jean Louis Gallet becomes a French citizen and continues his father's jewelry and watch making company until his premature death in 1809 at age 35. 1826: Julien Gallet (1806–1849), son of Jean Louis, relocates the family watch making business to La Chaux-de-Fonds, [10] a major center for pocket watch production. At this time, the company is ...
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.
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