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Watchmaking Piaget SA: 1874 La Côte-aux-Fées: Georges Edouard Piaget Geneva: Subsidiary Richemont: Georges Edouard Piaget . Yves Piaget Chabi Nouri (Chief Executive Officer) Purnell (company) 2017 Maurizio Mazzocchi (CEO) Geneva: Private: Rado (watchmaker) 1917 Lengnau: Fritz Schlup Ernst Schlup Werner Schlup Raymond Weil: 1976 Raymond Weil
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.
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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.
In 1770, philosopher Voltaire supports the establishment of watchmaking workshops in Ferney-Voltaire near Geneva and Manufacture Royale is established. It is then an important producer of timepieces and the famous Jean-Antoine Lépine, clockmaker to the king, is one of its watchmakers.
Some US watchmaking schools of horology will teach not only the Wostep style, including the ETA range of movements, but also focus on the older watches that a modern watchmaker will encounter on a daily basis. In Denmark the apprenticeship lasts four years, with six terms at the Danish School of Watchmaking in Ringsted. The education covers ...
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]