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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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IWC is best known for its luxury pilot/aviation watches and for being a pioneer in the use of ceramic and titanium in watchmaking. [5] [6] [4] [7] In 2018 IWC was recognized by the WWF for its environmental efforts and received an "Ambitious" rating; placing first amongst fifteen other Swiss watchmakers.
Universal Genève SA is a Swiss luxury watch company, [1] founded in 1894 as Universal Watch.It is a subsidiary of Breitling SA.Since its beginnings, the company has produced complete watches with in-house movements.
Bianchet is the first watchmaking company to have developed its entire watch movement architecture and watch cases using the golden ratio of 1.618 and the Fibonacci sequence as a design basis. It is also the first company to have developed a tonneau-shaped watch in carbon capable of resisting a pressure of 10ATM or 100 meters of water depth ...
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]