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Speidel experienced a boom in popularity, notably with their invention of the hugely popular expanding strap in the mid-1930s, and in addition to watchbands Speidel produced wristwatches, lighters, writing instruments, small jewelry, and other accessories, before beginning to decline by the end of the century with the struggle to compete with ...
Watches of Switzerland was founded in Ludgate Hill in 1924. [3] During the late 1970s Theo Paphitis, the entrepreneur, worked as a sales assistant at the Bond Street Watches of Switzerland store in London. [4] The business was acquired by Ratners in 1988 [5] and then sold on to Asprey in 1992.
Thomas Mudge, inventor of the lever escapement. The lever escapement, invented by Thomas Mudge in 1754 [18] and improved by Josiah Emery in 1785, gradually came into use from about 1800 onwards, chiefly in Britain; it was also adopted by Abraham-Louis Breguet, but Swiss watchmakers (who by now were the chief suppliers of watches to most of Europe) mostly adhered to the cylinder until the 1860s.
One of Smiths' "De Luxe" wristwatches was worn by Edmund Hillary on his successful ascent of Mount Everest (Rolex also supplied watches but the only watch worn to the summit was a Smiths). [20] The 1950s was a period of significant restructuring for Smiths Group; in 1958, Smiths Aviation and Smiths Marine were organised as separate divisions. [13]
Swatch is a Swiss watch company founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which inexpensive, battery-powered, quartz-regulated watches were competing against more established European watchmakers focused on artisanal craftsmanship ...
Alex Hirsch with a Grunkle Stan puppet at San Diego Comic-Con in 2013. Hirsch's first job after graduating from CalArts was as a writer and storyboard artist for the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, where he worked alongside CalArts alumni J. G. Quintel, Pendleton Ward (who was his writing partner on the show), and Patrick McHale.
Hirsch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Afua Hirsch (born 1981), Norwegian-born British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister; Alex Hirsch (born 1985), American animator, screenwriter and voice actor; August Hirsch (1817–1894), German physician and medical historian
HBA (Hirsch Bedner Associates) is a global design and architecture firm headquartered in Singapore. It is the world’s leading hospitality design firm and has been ranked first on the Interior Design Hospitality Giants List for over eighteen years.