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2. The Swatch Group - Wikipedia

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   The Swatch Group Ltd is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewellery. The company was founded in 1983 by the merger of ASUAG and SSIH to move to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve the quartz crisis threatening the traditional Swiss watchmaking industry. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and ...

3. List of most expensive watches sold at auction - Wikipedia

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   A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars. The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.

4. 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 ...

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. IWC Schaffhausen - Wikipedia

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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 ...

7. 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 [2] Villeret [2] Charles Robert [2] Mondaine: 1951 Solothurn: Erwin Bernheim Montres Corum Sàrl: 1955 [2] La Chaux-de-Fonds [2] Gaston Ries, Simone Ries and René ...

8. Can Swatch Stop Costco from Selling Omega Watches? - AOL

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   Costco Wholesale (COST) on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to continue to allow it to sell products made overseas at a discount in U.S. stores. The debate comes after Swiss company Swatch ...

9. Tissot - Wikipedia

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   Tissot SA. Tissot SA ( French pronunciation: [ti'so]) is a Swiss luxury watch brand owned by the Swatch Group. [ 1] The company was founded in Le Locle, Switzerland by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son, Charles-Émile Tissot, in 1853. [ 2][ 3] Tissot is not associated with Mathey-Tissot, another Swiss watchmaking firm.