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Accurist
Accurist Watches Ltd is a watch manufacturer, headquartered in West Hampstead, London. The company has a reputation of providing high quality watches.
In 1947, Asher Loftus and his wife, Rebecca, founded Accurist Watches, in Clerkenwell, London....
Adriatica
Adria and Adriatica are parent Swiss Watch Brands specialised in making quality watches at affordable prices for the Eastern European Markets.
The name originates from the Etruscan city of Atria or (Adria) that also gave its name at a much earlier...
Alba
Alba is a wristwatch sub-brand of Seiko Watch Corporation which appeared first in 1979.
Using Seiko's own family of movements but with modern styling designed to appeal especially to younger customers, Alba watches are primarily aimed at Asian...
Alpina watches
Alpina Watches International SA is a manufacturer of wrist watches based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1883 by Gottlieb Hauser, watchmaker in Winterthur, who founded the Swiss Watchmakers Corporation ("Union...
Anonimo
Anonimo S.p.A is a wristwatch manufacturer located in Florence, Italy. Named by company founder, Federico Massacesi, Anomio embraces the philosophy that watches are an expression of the personality of the wearer.
Anonimos are high end mechanical...
Audemars Piguet
Audemars Piguet (AP) (French pronunciation: [odmaʁ piɡɛ]) is a manufacturer of prestige Swiss watches which compete with Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin.
The roots of Audemars Piguet date back to 1874, when the 23-year-old...
Baume et Mercier
Baume et Mercier (bohm ay mers-yay) is a Swiss luxury watchmaking company founded in 1830. It is owned by Richemont, and with Cartier and Piaget they make up the core of the group. This company is represented in 75 countries and produces around 200...
Binda Group
The Binda Group is an Italian watch and jewelry company founded in 1906, headquartered in Milan and headed by brothers Marcello and Simone Binda, grandsons of the founder Innocente Binda. The company owns subsidiaries in eight countries (Italy, the...
Blancpain
Blancpain is a luxury Swiss watch manufacturer, founded in 1735 by Jehan-Jaques Blancpain. Blancpain went into bankruptcy and stopped production for a long period but was saved by Jean-Claude Biver, an executive with Omega. Blancpain is owned by the...
Bovet Fleurier
Bovet Fleurier SA is a Swiss brand of luxury watchmakers chartered May 1, 1822 in London, U.K. by Edouard Bovet. It is most famous for its pocket watches manufactured for the Chinese market in the 19th century. Today it produces high-end artistic...
Breguet
Breguet is a French manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. It is one of the oldest...
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Breitling
Breitling (German pronunciation: [bʁaɪtliŋ]) is a luxury brand of Swiss watches produced by Breitling SA, a private company headquartered in Grenchen, Canton of Solothurn (originally founded in Saint-Imier, Bernese Jura by Léon Breitling in 1884)....
Bulgari
Bulgari (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbulɡari]) is an Italian jeweler and luxury goods retailer which has been owned by the French firm LVMH since October 2011. The trademark is usually written "BVLGARI" in the classical Latin alphabet (where V =...
Bulova
Bulova is a corporation making watches and clocks. It has its headquarters in Woodside, Queens, New York City.
Bulova was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851–1936), an immigrant from Bohemia. It was...
Cartier SA
Cartier S.A., commonly known as Cartier (English: /ˈkɑrti.eɪ/, French: [kaʁtje]), is a French jeweler and watch manufacturer. The corporation carries the name of the Cartier family of jewellers whose control ended in 1964 and who were known for...
Casio
Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (カシオ計算機株式会社, Kashio Keisanki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, cameras, musical instruments and...
Certina
Certina Kurth Frères SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker company founded in Grenchen, 1888, by Adolf and Alfred Kurth, and currently an affiliate company of the Swatch Group.
Certina Kurth Frères SA was founded in 1888 when Adolf and Alfred Kurth opened...
Chaika watches
Chaika (Russian: чайка, meaning "sea-gull") watches are a women's brand made in the Soviet Union and Russia. The factory making Chaika watches was founded in 1940 as Volga in the city of Uglich for the production of precision technical stones and...
Chopard
Chopard is a Swiss-based luxury watch, jewelry, and accessories company founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard at the age of 24. Chopard initially concentrated on developing precise pocket watches and chronometers based upon innovative ideas....
Chronovski
Chronovski Inc was founded in 1932 by lawyer Joseph Chronovski in Prague.
At that time, as Czechoslovakia had a large armament industry that needed accurate time-keeping precision, Joseph realised the potential of striking out as an indigious Czech...
Chronoswiss
Chronoswiss is a German watch manufacturer based in Karlsfeld. The company was founded by Gerd R. Lang in 1983 with the mission to make the most extraordinary mechanical timepieces. Prior to founding Chronoswiss, Lang had gained significant...
Citizen Holdings
Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. (シチズンホールディングス株式会社, Shichizun Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 7762) is the core company of a Japanese global corporate group based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was originally founded as Shokosha Watch Research Institute...
Company Volmax
Company Volmax, based in Moscow, Russia, internationally markets Russian-assembled watches. The Volmax brands are Aviator, Buran, Sturmanskie, and Russian Watch Factory (РЧЗ).
Volmax was formed in 2002. With the partial demise of the First Moscow...
Corum
Corum is a Swiss watchmaker based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel. Founded in 1955, it makes high-quality and high-price watches, many of which are limited editions and thus especially pricey. The benchmark watch series for Corum is its ...
Dakota Watch Company
The Dakota Watch Company is a retail and service company that specializes in watches and watch accessories. The company was founded in 1945 by Albert Cooper under the name Cooper's Fixery in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the time, the company's products...
Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth is a watchmaking company based in the Vallée de Joux, in Switzerland. The company was created in 1989 and was acquired by the Bulgari Group in 2000.
Daniel Roth has workshops in both Le Sentier as well as in Geneva, which it shares with...
Doxa S.A.
Doxa S.A. is a Swiss company, founded in 1889, that manufactures watches. Doxa is best known for its dive watches.
Doxa, founded in 1889 by George Ducommun, began as a maker of fine dress watches and other timepieces. Over the years, Doxa gained in...
Dubey Schaldenbrand
Dubey & Schaldenbrand is a luxury watch company dating back to 1946 and named after founders Georges Dubey and René Schaldenbrand. It was purchased by Cinette Robert in 1995 and continues to produce small quantities of primarily automatic movement...
Roger Dubuis
Roger Dubuis is the brand name of luxury watches and jewellery founded by Carlos Dias and Roger Dubuis.
Dubuis, a talented watchmaker, founded his own atelier in 1980 after 14 years of developing complications for Patek Philippe. He took commissions...
E. Gluck Corporation
E. Gluck Corporation, founded in 1956 by its current President, Eugen Gluck, is an American watch manufacturer headquartered in Long Island City, New York. E. Gluck Corporation manufactures watches under two flagship brand names, Armitron and Anne...
Eco-Drive
Eco-Drive is the series name of a commercially successful line of mainly light powered watches manufactured by one the world's largest wristwatch manufacturers the Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. In 1995 Citizen introduced the Eco-Drive line to Asia, Latin...
Eterna
Eterna is a Swiss luxury watch company founded in Grenchen, Canton Solothurn on the 7th of November 1856 by Dr Josef Girard and Urs Schild. They initially specialised in producing pocket watches with alarms. In 1906 the company name changed from U....
Carlo Ferrara
Carlo Ferrara is a luxury Italian watch brand, known for its Regulatore collection, timepieces which feature hour and minute hands on independent vertical elliptical tracks. The timepieces are manufactured in Switzerland.
Festina
Festina is a watch company. It was founded in 1902 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The manufacture's motto was Festina Lente (Latin for 'Hasten slowly'). In 1984, Spanish industrialist Miguel Rodriguez, already owner of Lotus watches bought...
Folli Follie
Folli Follie Group is a Greek-based international company which designs, manufactures and distributes jewellery, watches and fashion accessories. Through its subsidiaries it also operates duty-free shops and sporting goods retail outlets.
The...
Fortis Uhren AG
Fortis is a watchmaker founded and based in Grenchen Switzerland that was established by Walter Vogt in 1912.
12 years after its establishment, Walter Vogt set up production with John Harwood, the inventor of the automatic wristwatch. In 1926,...
Fossil, Inc.
Fossil, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOSL) is an American designer and manufacturer of clothing and accessories, primarily watches and jewelry, but also sunglasses, wallets, handbags, belts, shoes and clothing, based in Richardson, Texas, United States. Their...
Frédérique Constant
Frederique Constant SA is a manufacture of luxury wrist watches based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva. The company was established in its current form in 1988 by Aletta Bax and Peter Stas and is involved in all the stages of watch production, from...
Gérald Genta
Charles Gérald Genta was a Swiss wristwatch designer and company of the same name. In addition to his own line of time pieces, Genta had contributed to the designs of Swiss luxury watch firms including IWC, Universal Geneve, Patek Philippe and...
Girard-Perregaux
Girard-Perregaux (French pronunciation: [ʒiʁaʁ pɛʁəɡo]) is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. It is situated in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and is a part of the Sowind group, a subsidiary of PPR.
In 1791,...
Glashütte Original
Glashütte Original is a German luxury watchmaking company founded in 1994 by the privatization of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB). GUB was an East German conglomerate formed in 1951 from the watch companies based in Glashütte. This included A....
Glycine Watch
Glycine is a Swiss wristwatch manufacturer. Glycine became a noteworthy watch maker in the early 1950s for the introduction of their Airman model, a 24 hour watch favored by both military and commercial pilots. The Airman was worn by many U.S. Air...
Greubel Forsey
Greubel Forsey is a watchmaking company specializing in very high-end complicated timepieces. It was launched in 2004 by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey and is based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
It has made itself a name as an watch...
Gruen watch
Gruen is a brand of American wristwatches.
In 1874 Dietrich Gruen (1847-1911) a German immigrant lived in Delaware, Ohio.
In 1876, Gruen started the Columbus Watch Company in Columbus, Ohio. At that time, he finished and cased watch movements from...
Hamilton Watch Company
The Hamilton Watch Company was originally formed to produce high quality pocket watches and wristwatches mid-range and luxury. Hamilton would become a corporate conglomerate diversified in other operations. The Hamilton brand name still exists in...
Hublot
Hublot is a Swiss enterprise creating luxury watches and founded in 1980 by Carlo Crocco. The company currently operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of France's LVMH.
A scion of the Italian Binda Group dynasty, best known for making Breil watches,...
Ikepod
The original Ikepod company was a Swiss wristwatch manufacturer, specializing in conceptual timepieces.
Ikepod began in 1993, when Oliver Ike spotted the Australian designer Marc Newson due to his first publication in Europe. Together they completed...
Indiglo
Indiglo is a brand name of Indiglo Corporation, solely owned by Timex for licensing purposes. Timex electroluminescent lamps, branded Indiglo, were introduced through Kmart in 1992 in the Ironman watch line. The technology is comparable to the...
International Watch Company
International Watch Co, also known as IWC, is a high-end Swiss watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. IWC is an active member of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH.
IWC Schaffhausen is notable for being the only major...
Invicta Watch Group
Invicta Watch Group is a United States-based fashion watch company, trading on the name, but a distinct entity from the company founded in 1837 by Raphael Picard in La Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland. The Picard family owned and operated the company...
Jaeger-LeCoultre
Jaeger-LeCoultre (JLC, French pronunciation: [jɛgɛʁ ləkultʁ]) is a high-end luxury watch and clock manufacturer based in Le Sentier, Vaud, Switzerland. In addition, Jaeger-LeCoultre also has a long tradition of supplying movements and parts to other...
Jean Lassale
Jean Lassale is a Swiss watch company that designed the thinnest mechanical watch movement : 1.2 mm. It is the Calibre 1200.
In the years 1970, Pierre Mathys, master watchmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds, designed and built the prototype of a...
Jovial
Jovial is a Swiss manufacturer of watches, with headquarters in Biel, Switzerland. Formed in 1929, Mohamed Dabaan (Yabroud, SYRIA)is the current CEO Jovial has its regional office in Dubai, UAE
Jovial has large presence in middle east and rapidly...
Jowissa
The Jowissa Watch Ltd. was founded by Josef Wyss in 1951. He started to manufacture watches in his own house in Bettlach, Switzerland, with two fellow employees. During the first years they manufactured watches for other brands. The business...
Jules Jurgensen
Jules Jurgensen is a watchmaking company. It was founded by Jürgen Jürgensen in 1740 in Denmark, when Jürgen Jürgensen went into partnership with Isaac Larpent, under the name “Larpent & Jürgensen”.
Upon Jürgens death in 1811, his youngest son...
Junghans
Junghans Uhren GmbH is Germany's largest watch and clock manufacturer.
The company is located in Schramberg, Baden-Württemberg. On 15 April 1861 Erhard Junghans created the company „Junghans und Tobler“ together with his brother-in-law Jakob Zeller...
Kolber
Kolber is a lesser known make of Swiss watches and part of the Al-Futtaim Group. They produce pocket watches as well as wristwatches some of which feature skeletonized movements. All watches are fitted with Swiss ETA movements. The brand is...
Longines
Longines (French pronunciation: [lɔ̃ʒin]) is a luxury watchmaker based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland. Founded by Auguste Agassiz in 1832, the company is owned by the Swatch Group. Its winged hourglass logo is the oldest registered for a watchmaker....
Maitres du Temps
Maîtres du Temps is a Swiss watch company. Founded in 2007 by Steven Holtzman, the brand is based in Geneva, Switzerland. The brand launched in Geneva in 2008 with Chapter One, a watch developed by Christophe Claret, Roger Dubuis and Peter Speake...
