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STOWA is a German luxury watchmaker founded by Walter Storz in 1927, and is based in Engelsbrand, Germany.The name is a portmanteau of the founder's name, Storz Walter. . From 1996 until 2021, STOWA was owned by Jörg Schauer, who also owns the Schauer watch brand and the DUROWE watch movement b
Bob's Watches is an online marketplace for the resale and trade of watches, with a focus on Rolexes. It was one of the largest watch reselling websites in the United States in 2016. [3] The company was founded in the mid-1990s by Bob Thompson in North Carolina as a local seller of various watch brands and models.
Ashford is a retailer that went online in 1999 as NewWatch.com, in Houston, Texas under the guidance of Rob Shaw, James Whittcomb, and Sean McNamara G.G. In 1999, the company was listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ASFD and underwritten by Goldman Sachs.
In 1994, Timex acquired the Nautica Watches license and introduced Timex Data Link. The Data Link PDA-type watch could receive contact and scheduling information from a sequence in a computer monitor's light using software developed with Microsoft. [34] They introduced the Timex Expedition brand in 1997, designed for rugged outdoor sports.
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 ...
In 1940 a second location was founded in the Pennsylvania Hotel across from Penn Station. [4] The first West Coast store was opened during the 1990s in the South Coast Plaza mall in Costa Mesa. [5] In 1997 the company opened The Tourneau TimeMachine on 57th Street in New York City, and was at the time the world's largest watch store.
In 1986, Kienzle developed the first solar watch with light conditions and a polycrystalline solar element. In the early 1990s, Kienzle developed the most water-resistant watch in the world which was resistant up to 12,000 metres. They also developed the world's first radio-controlled atomic alarm clock with an analogue alarm setting.
The Hamilton Watch Company was housed on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) complex in Lancaster. Hamilton took possession of Aurora Watch Company's machinery shortly after incorporation. [citation needed] The first watch made under the Hamilton name was an 18-size 17-jewel pocket watch in 1893.