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Universal Genève SA is a Swiss luxury watch company, [1] founded in 1894 as Universal Watch.It is a subsidiary of Breitling SA.Since its beginnings, the company has produced complete watches with in-house movements.
In 1924, Dreyfus sought to expand the market outside of Switzerland and the name was changed to Dreffa Watch Co, SA. In 1946 Montres Dreffa, SA registered the name Dreffa Watch [ 3 ] in the USA and started selling its luxury watches in the USA under the Dreffa name.
Geneva: Jeanrichard S.A. Arcadia Watches: 1858 Fleurier Claude Sanz Geneva Private: Richard Baldwin (CEO) Armand Nicolet: 1875 Armand Nicolet Tramelan: 20 Privately held company: Ateliers deMonaco: 2008 Geneva Watch Manufacturer Members of the Citizen Group Pim Koeslag, Robert van Pappelendam, Peter Stas: Audemars Piguet: 1875 [1] [2] [3] Le ...
In total, only seven pieces were manufactured, each of which had a sale price over US$1 million. [61] On April 3, 2005, a Tour de I'lle wristwatch fetched a final price of 1.56 million US dollars (1,876,250 CHF) in Antiquorum's Geneva auction. [47] [48] The auctioned piece has a unique black dial. A Vacheron Constantin pocket watch (1901)
Sold through Phillips' Geneva auction house, the watch fetched a final price of US$11.14 million (CHF 11,002,000). [80] This was the first time that a steel-case Ref. 1518 (only four were made in steel) went for auction; in fact, this piece was the first of the four steel Ref. 1518 manufactured, which features a chronograph and perpetual ...
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.
Established in Geneva in 1974, Antiquorum was the first auction house to auction fine watches over the Internet in the 1990s. [1] The company was founded in Geneva in 1974 and expanded to have branches in ten cities, including New York, London, Moscow, Paris, Milan, Munich, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
The Roger Dubuis Manufacture in Geneva was founded in 1995. After four years of development, [3] In 1999, the company unveiled first watches that were fully designed and developed in-house. [5] In 2001, Roger Dubuis built his manufacturing facility in Meyrin, on the outskirts of Geneva. [6]