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2. Gerald Charles - Wikipedia

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   Gérald Charles Genta (1931–2011), a Swiss watchmaker and artist, founded his eponymous company in 1969, which was sold by Genta in 1996 to The Hour Glass. In 2000, Gérald Charles Genta founded a new watch brand, Gerald Charles SA. Gérald Charles Genta is best known for creating the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and the Patek Philippe Nautilus.

3. Hublot - Wikipedia

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   A scion of the Italian Binda Group dynasty, best known for making Breil watches, Carlo Crocco left the company in 1976, to start a watch company. Moving to Switzerland he formed MDM Geneve and set about designing a watch that he named the Hublot after the French word for "porthole".

4. List of watchmakers - Wikipedia

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   Achille Hubert Benoit (1804–1895), French watchmaker, ... Charles Frodsham (1810–1871), English watch and chronometer maker, London, chronometer, tourbillon.

5. Zenith (watchmaker) - Wikipedia

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   In 1865, at the age of 22, George Favre-Jacot began manufacturing watches under his name at a small workshops in Le Locle, Switzerland. After witnessing the success of American watch companies Waltham and Elgin utilizing mass production to sell affordable and reliable timepieces, he invested heavily in his own company to create a vertically integrated watchmaking operation, becoming the first ...

6. ‘Who in the hell needs a Rolex watch?’: The late Charlie ...

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   Throughout his long life, Munger advocated for investing in high-quality businesses with strong brands, a competitive advantage, good cash flow, low debt and the ability to raise prices over time.

7. Gérald Genta - Wikipedia

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   Gérald Charles Genta (1 May 1931 – 17 August 2011) was a Swiss watchmaker and artist. He is known for his eponymous lines of timepieces, such as Gerald Genta and Gerald Charles, as well as his design work with other high-end watch manufacturers, including IWC , Omega , Universal Genève , Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet .

8. Squale Watches - Wikipedia

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   Squale is a French word for shark. [7] The E is silent and it is pronounced "Skwal." In 1946, Charles von Büren created C.Von Büren SA in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In 1959, after testing the reliability of the watch cases himself on numerous occasion, he registered the Squale trademark.

9. Charlie Cairoli - Wikipedia

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   Hubert Jean Charles Cairoli [1] (15 February 1910 – 17 February 1980) was an Italian-English clown, ... who afterward presented Cairoli with a watch.