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IWC International Watch Co. AG, founded International Watch Company, better known as IWC Schaffhausen, is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. [1] Originally founded in Switzerland by American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868, the company was transferred to the Rauschenbach family in 1880 after ...
Invicta is an American watch designer and manufacturer headquartered in Hollywood, Florida. [2] Invicta began as a Swiss watch company in 1837 founded by Raphael Picard in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. [3] [4]
This list is a duplicate of Category:Watch brands, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname.
Waltham Watch Company. pocket watch. Georg Friedrich Roskopf (1813–1889), German watchmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Roskopf escapement. Matthäus Hipp (1813–1893), German clockmaker, Bern, electric precision pendulum clock. Edward Howard (1813–1904), American watchmaker and manufacturer, Waltham Watch Company, pocket watch.
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 ...
In 2000, he joined the Richemont Group, the Swiss luxury goods group, and integrated the A. Lange & Söhne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and International Watch Company (IWC) brands following their acquisition. In 2002, at the age of 36, he became the youngest CEO at Richemont when he was chosen to run IWC Schaffhausen .
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Cortébert was a Swiss premium watch brand, manufacturing their own movements, supplying movements to other brands such as Rolex and introducing a jump-hour movement later adopted by IWC. When the quartz crisis hit the industry in the 1970s, the majority of prestige brands ceased production, including Cortébert.