Girard Perregaux
Swiss watchmaker company Girard-Perregaux was founded in 1791. The founder of the company is Jean-François Botte. In 1854, the watchmaker Constant Girard-Oaten married Mary Perregaux, her family was engaged in manufacturing of watches. In 1966 - Girard-Perregaux creates the first high-frequency (36 000 vph), with manual winding movement based on the caliber of 1957. In 1967, 73% of the movements that have received certification from the Newchatel Observatory Chronometer, were models Gyromatic HF. In 1969 the Swiss watch industry was shocked with quartz movement. Many well-known companies wary…
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A. Lange & Sohne
The A. Lange & Sohne watches were born in 1845 in Saxon city Glashütte. The A. Lange & Sohne watch brand meaning “Lange and sons” is rightfully considered to be a trend setter in the world of wrist watches. Today we can hardly imagine how a watch shop with 15 people in its staff grew to enormous watch industry, and the world knew about German wrist watches with famous name A. Lange & Sohne. Mister Lange manufactured not only watches and movement details with his colleagues, but also high-quality machines for manufacture of these watch details. German watches were given name, well-known for us,…
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Chanel
Chanel is a French high fashion house which produces luxury goods, clothing, cosmetics and perfumes, men's and women's watches, luxury jewelry and accessories. The brand Chanel was founded in the early XX century by Gabrielle Chanel. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was born in 1883 in the French city Somur. The founder of fashion house Chanel has laid the tradition of elegance that cannot be influenced by time. The first boutique under the brand Chanel was opened in 1913. Constant trendsetter – the company Chanel could not pass by such an important and prestigious accessory like a watch. Her first col…
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Chopard
The history of Swiss watch house “Chopard” began 150 years ago. So, in 2010, the watch brand “Chopard L.U.C.” (Louis – Ulysse Chopard) marks its anniversary. In 1860, Louis-Ulysse Chopard established his workshop in Swiss village Sonvillier and proudly wrote his initials L.U.C. on the front of building. In the beginning the company was focused on the manufacture of high quality limited watches. In 1912, it worked up the watch markets of Eastern Europe, Russia and Scandinavian countries. Travel leads to orders increase. A high quality of Chopard products favours their popularity increase. The w…
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Tudor
The brand was named after the old English Tudor family. The company foundation is dated to 1946. This company was based on the famous Rolex brand. Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex company, decided to derive the benefit from the technological advances in the spheres of design and the watch case production. Initially, the new cases were produced for Rolex watches. Later, they were transformed for Tudor models. The quality and design of theses watches bears the strong resemblance to the true Rolex products. Tudor watch is an alternative for those, who can not afford to buy the expensive produc…
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Voutilainen
Kari Voutilainen was born in Finland in 1962 and is a passionate watchmaker for already thirty years. The initial watch education he got in world known Finnish school Tapiola. In 1989 he entered Swiss International school of watchmaking, where he finished graduate school on reconstruction of complicated, high quality rear watches, he did this work for 10 years. Thanks to considerable baggage of experience, soon he began to teach in School of watchmakers WOSTEP, and also headed the faculty of complicated watches. In 2002 in village Môtiers Kari Voutilainen founded his own business as an indepen…
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Vianney Halter
Vianney Halter is an independent watchmaker who founded the watch manufactory in 1998. It might be called the "King of the complex simplicity," because he really knows how to turn ordinary mechanical units in paradoxical design solutions. The peculiar style of brand Vianney Halter can not be confused with the style of other brands. Vianney was born in the small town of Lima, located 60 km west of Paris. He studied at school, then moved to Paris where he continued his studies and worked as watchmaker and restorer. However, for Vianney it was pretty boring job, and he decided to leave Paris to g…
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DeLaneau
The Swiss DeLaneau watch company was founded in 1880 in the city of Bienne. DeLaneau company's wrist watches are masterpieces of jewelery art, created in the best high watchmaking art traditions. It was among the first Swiss watch companies, that started producing watches with jewelery garnish. DeLaneau company is declared a Haute Joaillerie in women's wrist watches production. The correspondence to the high technical standards of the Swiss watchmaking style, the stylish and luxurious outlook, the usage of rare and expensive precious stones allow DeLaneau watch manufacture to hold the firm pos…
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Habring
Habring is an independent Austrian watch company, it is the first watch brand producing movements with “jumping” second. Classical mechanical watches of Habring company are unique due to their unusual central second hand. These wrist watches are only custom-made products. Their classical design and complicated movements make Habring watches indispensible. The collection of wrist watches Habring 2, that had the movement with “jumping" second, was released in 2009. The most experienced watchmakers and designers were working had for about 5 years to create these unique watches. Habring watches ar…
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Ressence
The company “Ressence” was established by a Belgium designer Benoit Mintiens. This brand was presented with a great success at BaselWorld watch exhibition in Basel, Switzerland, in 2010. The presented brand appeared among five best models. These automatic watches show the time by the painted hands on the four independent rotating disks which give them special charm. The model looks unique, the dial looks like auto panel making an illusion of painted speedometer. But don't worry! The Ressence Watches are real: automatic with the back, trough which you can see winding mechanism and rotor. At the…
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Zenith
Swiss watchmaking Zenith was founded in 1865. Its creator young Swiss Georges Favre-Jacot. At age 22, he created the concept of watch factory. Ten years later, the factory Zenith employed more than 1000 employees. After the First World War the company was able to increase the production of its watches to two million units per year. During World War II, Zenith produced devices for military purposes. Opened new branches in Geneva, London, Paris, New York, Vienna and Moscow. In 1969, the company produces a model of El Primero - Automatic Chronograph, which today remains the most accurate chronogr…
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Philippe Dufour
Philippe Dufour is a living legend, one of the most respected, talented watch craftsmen, having worked in the watchmaking industry for long years. He is a member of AHCI - Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants, founded in 1985 by Svend Andersen and Vincent Calabrese, its aim is to restore traditional watchmaking craftmanship. Philippe Dufour was born in Vallee de Joux and started studying watchmaking at Sentier school at the age of 15. He started working as a watchmaker in 1967 at Jaeger-le-Coultre company, where Gabriel Locatelli, a great watchmaker, opened all watchmaking art secrets…
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Van Cleef & Arpels
For more than a century, Van Cleef & Arpels is prestigious jewelry house. It creates a feminine, luxurious and elegant masterpieces of watches and filigree art, executed in the inimitable, a characteristic style. Philosophy of House Van Cleef & Arpels in watchmaking is based on a key principle: the technical parameters of the models of the famous jewelry house in any case should not yield to their sophisticated design and flawless beauty. Watchmaking brand Van Cleef & Arpels is a fruitful alliance of advanced technology and a century of experience. Professionalism is the ability to watchmakers…
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