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2. Swatch - Wikipedia

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   Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker 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 ...

3. Hodinkee - Wikipedia

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   Advertising. None. Current status. Active. Hodinkee, stylized as HODINKEE, is a New York City-based watch website, known as an influential editorial and e-commerce site for new and vintage wristwatches. [3] Founded in 2008, the name comes from the Czech and Slovak word for wristwatch, “hodinky”.

4. Quartz crisis - Wikipedia

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   Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (American, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world. [1] [2] It caused a significant decline of ...

5. Hamilton Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The Hamilton Watch Company is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland. Founded in 1892 as an American firm, the Hamilton Watch Company ended American manufacture in 1969, shifting manufacturing operations to the Buren factory in Switzerland. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the Hamilton Watch Company ...

6. List of Swiss watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   The Swatch Group: Hans-Rudolf Gottier Mido (watch) 1918 Biel/Bienne: George G. Schaeren Le Locle: Member of the Swatch group: The Swatch Group: Franz Linder, President: Minerva 1858: Villeret: Charles Robert: Mondaine: 1951 Solothurn: Erwin Bernheim Montres Corum Sàrl: 1955: La Chaux-de-Fonds: Gaston Ries, Simone Ries and René Bannwart: La ...

7. Jaeger-LeCoultre - Wikipedia

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   Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre SA, or simply Jaeger-LeCoultre ( French pronunciation: [ʒeʒɛʁ ləkultʁ] ), [1] is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer founded by Antoine LeCoultre in 1833 and is based in Le Sentier, Switzerland. [2] Since 2000, the company has been a fully owned subsidiary of the Swiss luxury group Richemont.