In 1874, Georges Piaget established a tiny workshop to produce pocket-watches in his family farm. Sometime after the turn of the century, his sons switched over to wristwatches. Piaget produced some of the most expansive watches in the world- and some of the most beautiful too. View Watches »
Interesting Collector's Pierce Vintage watches are the Correctomatic and the Pierce DouFon alarm wristwatch with two volumes of sound for it alarm. View Watches »
Tiffany setup its own watch production in 1872, but the enterprise lasted only four years; From then on, the timepieces came mainly from Patek Philippe. After the turn of the century many major Swiss watchmakers were supplying for Tiffany. View Watches »
Rotary have been making watches for over 100 years, and the business is still both owned and managed by The Dreyfuss family. Rotary range of handsome mechanical watches and reputation for well-designed, good quality gold and gold-plated wristwatches at reasonable prices, stimulated world-wide demand. View Watches »
The Kintaro Hattori firm, was established in Tokyo in 1881, In 1924 it was given its internationally known name Seiko. In 1964, Seiko acted as official timekeeper to the Tokyo Olympics. Five years later, it introduced one of the world's first automatic chronographs along with an early quartz wristwatch.
Seiko watches gained wide, international acceptance. In addition to their reputation for outstanding performance Seiko Vintage Watches are available in a wide selection to suit various functions, handsomely styled with a broad price range to choose from. View Watches »
Watches bearing the name "Swatch" (abbreviation of "Swiss watch") can hardly be called exclusive, nevertheless they are highly collectible. Swatch first plastic watch became available in 1983. Swatch original approach was based around a quartz watch crafted from plastic and displaying hours, minutes and seconds on an analog dial along with digital day and date indicators. View Watches »
A Briton by choice, the Bavarian-born Hans Wilsdorf founder of Rolex sought after the legal rights of the brand-name "Tudor", in tribute to the ruler of England from 1495 to 1603. But the name had previously been taken by the Geneva jewelry-dealer, Isaac Blumenthal, in December 1906, and the rights had since transferred to other people. View Watches »
In 1930 Zodiac launched one of the first self-winding watches. Faced with a deep sale crisis, Zodiac presented the Autographic. The caliber ended up being far ahead of its time, for the power reserve indicator which this included would not attain any kind of popularity in watches until the late 1940s and early 1950s. View Watches »
A watchmaker called Georges Favre-Jacot set up in business in 1865 In Le Locle making pocket-watches. He retired in 1911, and died in 1917. The Zenith brand name was launched in 1911 by his successors. However, it was still in his life-time that Zenith unveiled the world's first alarm wristwatch. View Watches »
Around 1845 Eugene Robert and Albert Wittnauer sailed from Switzerland to America to import Swiss watches. They established the Wittnauer & Co., which acted as agent in the United States and Canada, for such brands as Longines, Audemars Piguet, Angelus and Agassiz. View Watches »
Waltham was established in 1885 in Waltham, Massachusetts; the production of ladies' wristwatches started in around 1912, and men's wristwatches two years later. Very sought after are their pierced case soldiers' watches (circa 1917-1919). View Watches »
Vulcain & Studio SA was formed in 1858 in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the district of Jura in western Switzerland. Among Vulcain most significant horological achievements was the introduction of the first mass produced alarm watches in 1947. That model's name the "Cricket" is ascribed to French physicist Paul Langevin, who compared its clearly perceptible chirruping with the sound of the eponymous insect. View Watches »
The fusing of the talents and personalities of two gifted individuals may well create very unique and powerful outcomes that people identify utterly with the two names. Just think, Audemars met Piguet, Patek met Philippe, Baume met Mercier, Girard met Perregaux, . . .. View Watches »
In 1897 George Perret went into partnership with Louis Berthoud, and the brand was registered as Universal Watch on September 2, 1898. They deal with complicated timepieces, chronographs and watches of all kinds. An Universal, 17-ligne movement large wrist chronograph was released in 1917. View Watches »
Ulysse Nardin turned to wristwatches at the start of the 20th century. After the Second World War, Ulysse Nardin began to concentrate in slim automatic wristwatches, and the range of watches was extended in all direction the following years. View Watches »
Lord Elgin American made watches famed for quality since 1865. To wear one of the Lord Elgin watches was to invite admiration and envy. Each was jeweled. Each did runs 45 hours on a single winding. Each was designed for stamina. Trim, competent, faultless. View Watches »
The Lady Elgin wear a courtly charm that only the foremost designers could achieve. Each movement carried jewels. Cases were solid gold or 14 k.gold filled, in a variety of styles ... perfect answers to fashion's quest for beauty. View Watches »
The story of Blancpain watches goes back to 1735, The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms introduced in 1953 was one remarkable postwar success for Blancpain; their quality and 200m water resistance View Watches »
Cyma Watches range included wristwatches of the most diverse characteristics - such as the shock-proof watches, which had a safety cover above the vulnerable crystal glass, these watches were supplied to soldiers in 1915. They were superseded by the "water-proof" versions.
Catalogs from the nineteen thirties also present wrist-chronographs loaded with Yaljoux movements. In those days, Tavannes-Cyma professed to be Switzerland's biggest supplier of precision watches. As the Cyma company itself proclaimed, the big quantities produced resulted in the watches could be offered at amazingly cheap prices.
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Helbros created masterpieces of accuracy and longevity. Lifetime Jewel Movements...unbreakable mainspring...self-winding...shock-resistant and waterproof. HELBROS quality Watches were sold in over 200 styles for men and women. Helbros Watches View Watches »
"It must be useful. It must work dependably. It must be beautiful. It must last. It must be the best of its kind" the words of Alfred Dunhill, creator of the now broadly diversified luxurious goods producers and retaile
rs bearing his name. Dunhill's Motorities" a London store opened in 1893 by Alfred Dunhill, offered its exclusive customers almost everything to warm the heart of any automobile enthusiast.
From the start, the Dunhill business has been a successful exercise in marketing to gentlemen of taste, superb design and style in luxury items. Products included waterproof clocks for open-air cockpits, the double-sided "Motoring Watch" with chronograph, and also the "Motor Cycle Watch No. 895" having a sprung case-cover. Clocks and watches initially come to his shops windows in 1926; the Unique lighter, which contained a watch in their side, is a collector's piece these days, also built his watches into artistically designed cigarette lighters, ashtrays, pipe accessories, and even into belt buckles and brooches. View Watches »
From The Literary Digest for May 17, 1924 page 64
Although only about six months have passed since Elgin offered the Railroad Watch. The New "B.W. Raymond," has gained an acceptance unusual in a short time. Part of this is unquestionably due to the fact that this new watch comes as the successor to the earlier Elgin "Raymond." which has so long enjoyed the high regard of the railroad man. But it si not to be overlooked that this new Elgin Railroad Watch, "B. W. Raymond," is a remarkable timepiece in its own right.
Balance Wheel — new Elgin design. Extremely close compensation in different temperatures. Mainspring—extra long,giving a safety margin of many hours' excess running power. View Watches »
Burlington Special, it was a triumphs of master goldsmiths. An independent watch made in the independent factory the Burlington Special Pocket Watch gave the best quality and superior workmanship throughout.
The Burlington Special was the watch for the discriminating buyer; that was the watch for the man or woman who wants the best watch, the watch bought by experts the watch that was absolutely perfect in its many points of superiority the Burlington Watch.
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1856. that was yesterday...Baudelaire was gathering his "Fleurs du Mal" Darwin tracing man's descent from the apes, Karl Marx pondering his "Manifesto"; Wagner's "Lohengrin" enriched the world of music, and the Suez Canal was under construction. 1856?
In the Swiss canton of Soleure two men established the future Eterna. One of them persevered Urs Schild, the founder of the firm. Diligent, responsible, a sound technician and an indefatigable worker, he determined to establish in Grenchen the standard of watchmaking practiced by Geneva craftsmen. Not only did he achieve this ambition, but also the honor of being elected to the National Council of the Swiss Confederation. When he died, his son Max, high-spirited, volatile and a keen innovator, paid a visit to the United Stales. He returned to introduce, in the midst of manual craftsmen, machinery.
"Quality... Productivity... Rationalization...", Max Schild was ahead of his time and his ideas were unpopular. Disillusioned, he took his leave. His brother Theodore took the helm on the threshold of the 20lh century and with him Eterna entered modern times.
Though modest in size, Switzerland was beginning an invasion of world markets. Eterna was established in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York. 1914 saw a sensation at the National Fair: an alarm wristwatch displayed by Eterna. A prototype or a curiosity? The shape of things to come was predicted by the Hexa model, a pocket watch which wound itself automatically when the cover was closed!
Swiss watchmaker Rene Bannwart founded the Corum watch brand in 1955 with his cousin Simone and her father Gaston Ries. Corum designs sophisticated, fresh, highly imaginative and innovative watches. The first collection was in 1956 but the relative youth of the firm should no distract the attention of collectors and investors from the virtues of Corum watches. View Watches »
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