Watchmakers

Note: This list is a duplicate of :Category:Watchmakers, which will probably be more up-to-date and complete. Note that manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Names in this list must have an existing article which is about the watchmaker.

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• Accurist
  Accurist
  Accurist Watches Ltd is a traditional British watch manufacturer, with its headquarters in West Hampstead, London. The company has a reputation of providing high quality watches.-Establishment:...
  
  
• Adanac
• Adidas
  Adidas
  Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...
  
  
• Adriatica
  Adriatica
  Adria and Adriatica are parent Swiss Watch Brands specialised in making quality watches at affordable prices for the Eastern European Markets.-Origin:...
  
  
• Alpina Watches
  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 . A number of watchmakers joined to purchase watch components...
  
  
• American Waltham Watch Company
• Ancre
  Ancre
  The Ancre is a river of Picardy, France. Rising at Miraumont, a hamlet near the town of Albert, it flows into the Somme at Corbie. It crosses no départements other than the Somme.-See also:* Battle of the Ancre Heights...
  
  
• Ansonia Clock Company
  Ansonia Clock Company
  Ansonia Clocks were made by a clock manufacturing business which started in Ansonia, Connecticut, in 1851 and which moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1878...
  
  
• Armani
• John Arnold
  John Arnold
  John Arnold was an English watchmaker and inventor.John Arnold was the first to design a watch that was both practical and accurate, and also brought the term "Chronometer" in to use in its modern sense, meaning a precision timekeeper...
  
  
• ASUAG
• Audemars Piguet
  Audemars Piguet
  Audemars Piguet is a manufacturer of prestige Swiss watches which compete with Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin.-Foundation:...
  
  
• Aviator
  Aviator
  An aviator is a person who flies an aircraft. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887, as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin avis , coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne...
  
  

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• Baume et Mercier
  Baume et Mercier
  Baume et Mercier 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 200,000 watches a year. The most important markets are in Europe,...
  
  
• Ball Watch Company
• Bedat & Co
  Bedat & Co
  Bedat & Co is a Swiss watch brand that specializes in feminine luxury timepieces. The company was founded in 1996 by Simone Bédat and her son Christian Bédat...
  
  
• Bell & Ross
  Bell & Ross
  Bell & Ross is a French watch company headed by the French and Swiss designers Bruno Belamich and Carlos A. Rosillo. The brand was launched in 1992, and the first watches were designed by Belamich and Rosillo and made by a German watchmaker, Sinn....
  
  
• Benrus
  Benrus
  The Benrus Watch Company Inc., was founded in New York City in the 1920s by Benjamin Lazrus. The name "BENRUS" originates from the combination of Benjamin Lazrus' forename and surname. In the 1960s, the Fair Trade Commission determined that Benrus marketing practices were misleading for a minority...
  
  
• Binda Group
  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...
  
  
• Blancpain
  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 Swatch Group. Since 2002, Marc Hayek, the...
  
  
• Ernest Borel
  Ernest Borel
  Ernest Borel is a watch manufacturer founded in 1856 in Neuchatel, Switzerland. They have traditionally focused on export markets outside Europe. They won several awards in the late 19th century, including first place in the 1866 Neuchatel observatory timing accuracy competition...
  
  
• Edouard Bovet
  Edouard Bovet
  Edouard Bovet was a Swiss watchmaker and founder of the Bovet watch company.He was born in Fleurier in Neuchâtel, moved to London in 1814 and went on to Canton in 1818 where he set up in business in partnership with his brothers in 1822. The enterprise, that had luxury watches made in Switzerland...
  
  
• Abraham-Louis Breguet
• Breguet (watch)
  Breguet (watch)
  Breguet is a manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland...
  
  
• Breitling
  Breitling
  Breitling is a luxury brand of Swiss watches produced by Breitling SA, a private company headquartered in Grenchen, Canton of Solothurn . The company exclusively offered Certified Chronometers in all models since 2000...
  
  
• Bulgari
  Bulgari
  Bulgari 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 , and is derived from the surname of the company's Greek founder, Sotirio Voulgaris...
  
  
• Bulova
  Bulova
  Bulova is a corporation making luxury 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 , an immigrant from Bohemia...
  
  

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• Louis Cartier
  Louis Cartier
  Louis Cartier was a famous French watchmaker and businessman known worldwide for elegant and extravagant watch designs. He was passionate about mechanical pocket watches and had the goal of creating his own line of timepieces...
  
  
• Cartier SA
  Cartier SA
  Cartier S.A., commonly known as Cartier , is a French luxury 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 numerous pieces including the "Bestiary" , the diamond necklace created for Bhupinder...
  
  
• Casio
  Casio
  is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches...
  
  
• Century Time Gems Ltd
• Certina
  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.-History:...
  
  
• Chopard
  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...
  
  
• Chung nam group
  Chung nam group
  Chung Nam Group is a Hong Kong based watch and clock movement manufacturer. The Chung Nam Group comprises Isa Prestige Time, Roamer, and Isa. With plants based in China, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Isa movements are used in mid line watches....
  
  
• Citizen Watch Co.
  Citizen Watch Co.
  is the core company of a Japanese global corporate group based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was originally founded as Shokosha Watch Research Institute in 1918 and is currently known as the manufacturer of CINCOM precision lathe machine tools as well as CITIZEN watches. The trade name originated...
  
  
• Chronoswiss
  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 experience in manufacturing movements for other major...
  
  
• Corum
  Corum (watchmakers)
  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...
  
  
• Cubus
  Cubus
  Cubus is a brand of watches from Croatia.-Company:Cubus was founded as an idea which was supposed to compete to the world's famous brands of watches and their marketing concepts...
  
  
• Cyma Watches
  Cyma Watches
  Cyma SA is a Swiss manufacture of upscale and high-quality wristwatches, founded by brothers Joseph and Theodre Schwob in 1862. With equal emphasis for their accuracy and visual aesthetic, Cyma's automatic timepieces have been long reputable for their resilience to electricity, magnetism and...
  
  

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• George Daniels
• Aaron Lufkin Dennison
  Aaron Lufkin Dennison
  Aaron Lufkin Dennison .-Early life:Aaron Dennison was born in Freeport, Maine, after which the family moved to Brunswick, Maine. He was the son of Andrew Dennison, a boot and shoemaker who was also a music teacher. As a child Aaron earned pocket money by carrying a builder’s hod, working as a...
  
   co-founder of the Waltham Watch Company
  Waltham Watch Company
  The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., produced about 40 million high quality watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time fuses and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957...
  
  
• Edward John Dent
  Edward John Dent
  Edward John Dent was a famous English watchmaker noted for his highly accurate clocks and marine chronometers.He founded the Dent company.- Early years :...
  
  
• Doxa S.A.
  Doxa S.A.
  Doxa S.A. is a Swiss company, founded in 1889, that manufactures watches. Doxa is best known for its dive watches.-Company history:Doxa, founded in 1889 by George Ducommun, began as a maker of fine dress watches and other timepieces. Over the years, Doxa gained in size and branched out into...
  
  
• Dreffa
  Dreffa
  Dreffa watch co. Ltd. was a Swiss manufacturer of watches.It was established in 1874 in Geneva, by Armand Dreyfus, The last records listing Dreffa were in 1973-74.The factory was based at Rue le stand, 30.-References:...
  
  
• Roger Dubuis
  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 to design new complications for major brands for...
  
  

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• Thomas Earnshaw
  Thomas Earnshaw
  Thomas Earnshaw was an English watchmaker who following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public...
  
  
• Ebel
  Ebel
  Ebel is a famous Swiss luxury watch company, founded in 1911 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland by Eugene Blum and Alice Levy.-E.B.E.L.:...
  
  
• Edox
• Elgin National Watch Company
• EPOS
  Epos (watches)
  Epos is an independent Swiss manufacturer of mechanical watches, with headquarters in Grenchen, Switzerland. As well as making watches under their own brand, they manufacture watches for boutique watch companies such as Montblanc and MarcelloC.- External links :* *...
  
  
• Endura Watch Factory
  Endura Watch Factory
  Endura S.A. is Swiss watch manufacturer founded in 1966 by General Watch Company in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, for the purpose of manufacturing watches under "private label". This company was also part of the merger between ASUAG and SSIH into SMH, now the Swatch Group...
  
  
• Era Watch Co Limited C. Rüefli-Flury & Co
  Era Watch Co Limited C. Rüefli-Flury & Co
  - Era Watch Co Limited C. Rüefli-Flury & Co :Christian Ruefli-Flury, a talented watchmaker originating from Grenchen, Switzerland founded the company in Biel/Bienne, in 1884.-EDOX:He soon associated the ancient Greek word “Edox”...
  
  
• ETA SA
• ESPRIT
  Esprit Holdings
  Esprit Holdings Limited is a publicly owned manufacturer of apparel, footwear, accessories, jewellery and housewares under the Esprit label. The company is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and Ratingen , Germany. In the 2007–2008 business year, Esprit Holdings Limited generated a worldwide...
  
  
• Eterna
  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. Schild to Eterna. In 1908 they became the first...
  
  

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• Festina
  Festina
  thumb|right|Festina watchesFestina is a watch company. It was founded in 1902 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.The manufacture's motto was Festina Lente . In 1984, Spanish industrialist Miguel Rodriguez, already owner of Lotus watches bought Festina and created the group Festina Lotus S.A....
  
  
• Fortis Uhren AG
  Fortis Uhren AG
  Fortis is a watchmaker founded and based in Grenchen Switzerland that was established by Walter Vogt in 1912.- History :12 years after its establishment, Walter Vogt set up production with John Harwood, the inventor of the automatic wristwatch. In 1926, Fortis released the first self-winding...
  
  
• Frederique Constant
  Frédérique Constant
  Frederique Constant SA is a manufacture of luxury wrist watches based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva. The company was established in 1904 by Frederique Schreiner & Constant Stas and is involved in all the stages of watch production, from initial design to final assembly...
  
  
• Fossil Inc.
• Charles Frodsham
  Charles Frodsham
  Charles Frodsham was a renowned English watch and clockmaker. He took over Arnold & Co in 1843 at 84 Strand, London...
  
  

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• Gallet & Co.
  Gallet & Co.
  Gallet is a historical Swiss manufacturer of high-end timepieces for professional use.Gallet is the world’s oldest watch and clock making house with history dating back to Humbertus Gallet, a clock maker who became a citizen of Geneva in 1466...
  
  
• Léon Gallet
  Léon Gallet
  Léon L. Gallet was the eldest son of Julien Gallet , founder of the Gallet & Co. watch manufactory in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. During his time as family patriarch, Léon L. Gallet was responsible for the creation of numerous Swiss and American watch brands including National Park,...
  
  
• Romain Gauthier
  Romain Gauthier
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• Geneva Watch Group
• General Watch Co
  General Watch Co
  General Watch Co. was the watch companies Holding of ASUAG.-History:ASUAG had been founded in 1931, with the assistance of the Swiss Government and the Swiss Banks, to combat the severe economic crisis and ensuing unemployment by means of refinancing General Watch Co. (GWC) was the watch companies...
  
  
• Girard-Perregaux
  Girard-Perregaux
  Girard-Perregaux 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.- History :...
  
  
• Glashütte Original
  Glashütte Original
  Glashütte Original is a German watchmaking company founded in 1994 by the privatization of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe . GUB was an East German conglomerate formed in 1951 from the watch companies based in Glashütte. This included A. Lange & Söhne, founded in 1845...
  
  
• Glycine Watch
  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 Force pilots during the Vietnam War. Glycine still...
  
  
• George Graham (clockmaker)
  George Graham (clockmaker)
  George Graham was an English clockmaker, inventor, and geophysicist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was born to George Graham in Kirklinton, Cumberland. A Friend like his mentor Thomas Tompion, Graham left Cumberland in 1688 for London to work with Tompion...
  
  
• Gruen Watch Co.
  Gruen Watch Co.
  The Gruen Watch Company was formerly one of the largest watch manufacturers in the United States. It was in business from about 1894 to 1958 and was based in Cincinnati, Ohio.- Dietrich Gruen :...
  
  
• GUB
  Gub
  Gub is the second release and first LP by Pigface. It is notable for featuring contributions from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails before Nine Inch Nails achieved mainstream success....
  
  
• Guess Watches Co.

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• Ikepod
  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 their first prototype wristwatch called Seaslug...
  
  
• Illinois Watch Company
  Illinois watch company
  The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bunn and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn, Jr. took over and ran the company until his death in 1926...
  
  
• Ingersoll
• International Watch Company
  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....
  
  
• Invicta Watch Group
  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 until 1991, when the company was purchased by a...
  
  

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• Jaeger-LeCoultre
  Jaeger-LeCoultre
  Jaeger-LeCoultre 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 prestigious watch companies in Switzerland. Since 1996, Jaeger-LeCoultre has been a fully...
  
  
• Pierre Jaquet-Droz
  Pierre Jaquet-Droz
  Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a Swiss-born watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built animated dolls, or automata, to help his firm sell watches and mechanical birds....
  
  
• Georg Jensen
  Georg Jensen
  Georg Arthur Jensen was a Danish silversmith.Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad just to the north of Copenhagen. Jensen began his training in goldsmithing at the age of 14 in Copenhagen...
  
  
• F.P. Journe
• Jowissa
  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 developed very successfully and made a physical expansion...
  
  
• Junghans
  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-Tobler in Schramberg .The company began to produce...
  
  
• Jules Jurgensen
  Jules Jurgensen
  Jules Jurgensen is one of the most famous watchmaking companies in the world. It was founded by Jürgen Jürgensen in 1740 in Denmark, when Jürgen Jürgensen went into partnership with Isaac Larpent, under the name “Larpent & Jürgensen”....
  
  

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• Lacoste
• Lancashire Watch Company
  Lancashire Watch Company
  The Lancashire Watch Company of Prescot was founded in 1889 by Thomas P. Hewitt as a rival to the large American and Swiss watch companies. It failed in 1910.-History:...
  
  
• A. Lange & Söhne
  A. Lange & Söhne
  A. Lange & Söhne is a trademark of German watchmaking company Lange Uhren GmbH , a subsidiary of Richemont SA. Lange pocket and wrist watches are among the finest in the world, competing with watches produced by Swiss firms such as Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin.- History :Lange was...
  
  
• Jean Lassale
  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 revolutionary watch caliber, with the goal of making the...
  
  
• Le Jour
  Le Jour
  Le Jour was a Quebec independence newspaper. It was founded in Saint-Laurent, near Montreal, by Yves Michaud, Jacques Parizeau and René Lévesque. Michaud was editor-in-chief...
  
  
• Lip
• Longines
  Longines
  Longines is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland. The company was originally founded by Auguste Agassiz in 1832 and it currently holds the oldest registered logo for a watch company . Longines is currently owned by the Swatch Group.Longines is known for its 'Aviators' watches...
  
  
• Lorus
• Luminox
  Luminox
  Luminox is a brand of watches and clocks that use tritium to illuminate the hands and numerals of its products. Luminox was originally designed for United States Navy SEALs when a procurement officer approached the company to design a watch specifically suited for the needs of this special...
  
  

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• Mathey-Tissot
  Mathey-Tissot
  Mathey-Tissot is a Swiss watch maker of prestige watches, originally established in the late 19th century by Edmond Mathey-Tissot at Les Ponts-de-Martel in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland...
  
  
• Maurice Lacroix
  Maurice Lacroix
  Maurice Lacroix is a luxury brand of Swiss watches based in the Canton of Jura and headquartered in Zurich.-History:Maurice Lacroix was founded as part of Desco von Schulthess of Zurich in 1975. Founded in 1889, Desco von Schulthess is an older company with roots in the silk trade...
  
  
• mb-microtec
  Mb-microtec
  mb-microtec AG is a Swiss company primarily known for its watches that use tritium to illuminate the hands and numerals.Established in 1918 by two chemists, Walter Merz and Albert Benteli, Merz & Benteli AG had split to create mb-microtec AG in 1968...
  
  
• Mido
  Mido (watch)
  Mido is a luxury Swiss watchmaker company founded in 1918.-History:Mido was founded in 1918 by George G. Schaeren in Biel, Switzerland. Mido comes from the Spanish phrase Yo mido meaning I measure....
  
  
• Minerva
  Minerva
  Minerva was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena. She was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic...
  
  
• Molnija
  Molnija
  For other meanings of the word, see MolniyaMolnija is a Russian watch and clockmaker based in Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Molnija is the Russian word for lightning.- History :...
  
  
• Mondaine
  Mondaine
  Mondaine is the trademark for a series of watches made by the Swiss company Mondaine Watch Ltd.Most Mondaine watches are heavily influenced by classical railway station clocks, and according to the Mondaine web site, Mondaine is the official Swiss railways watch...
  
  
• Montblanc (pens)
  Montblanc (pens)
  Montblanc International GmbH is a German manufacturer of writing instruments, watches and accessories, often identified by their "White Star" logo.-History:...
  
  
• Movado
  Movado
  Movado is a Swiss luxury watch company whose name is Esperanto for "continuous movement". Movado was founded in 1881 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Achilles Ditesheim....
  
  
• Franck Muller
  Franck Muller
  Franck Muller is a noted Swiss watchmaker and the company of the same name. The brand of watches carries the slogan "Master of Complications". Franck Muller's watches are worn by various celebrities, among them Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Elton John, 50 Cent, and José Mourinho...
  
  
• Michael Kors
  Michael Kors
  Michael Kors is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women.-Personal life:...
  
  

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• Ollech & Wajs
  Ollech & Wajs
  Ollech & Wajs ' is a watch company based in Zurich, Switzerland.-History:Ollech & Wajs started business in the 1950s when Albert Wajs began making and supplying stainless steel bracelets for wristwatches. In 1956, a partnership was formed with Joseph Ollech, and they soon began manufacturing...
  
  
• Omega SA
• Orfina
  Orfina
  Orfina is a watch manufacturing company, known for its Porsche Design range. The company was founded in 1922.-Notable Appearences:* Lewis Collins' character in Who Dares Wins wears a Porsche design Orfina.* Tom Cruise wears an Orfina in Top Gun...
  
  
• Orient Watch Co.
  Orient Watch Co.
  is Japan's largest producer of mechanical watches. It has been a subsidiary of the Seiko Epson Corporation since 2001 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Seiko Epson in 2009...
  
  
• Oris

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• Panerai
  Panerai
  Officine Panerai Marketing e Communicazioni Srl, a wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., designs, manufactures, markets and sells watches under the Officine Panerai brand through authorized dealers and company-owned boutiques worldwide. Giovanni Panerai founded Officine...
  
  
• Parmigiani Fleurier
  Parmigiani Fleurier
  Parmigiani Fleurier SA is a Swiss brand of luxury watchmakers founded in 1976 in Fleurier, Switzerland by Michel Parmigiani. In 2006, Parmigiani produced the Bugatti 370, a driving watch based on the Bugatti Veyron supercar, which won the 2006 "Watch of the Year Award" from the Japanese...
  
  
• Antoni Patek
  Antoni Patek
  Antoni Norbert Patek , is a Polish pioneer in watchmaking and a creator of Patek Philippe & Co. one of the most famous watchmaker companies.- Early life :...
  
  
• Patek Philippe & Co.
  Patek Philippe & Co.
  Patek Philippe & Co. is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer located in Geneva and the Vallée de Joux.-History:Polish watchmaker Antoni Patek started making pocket watches in 1839 in Geneva, along with his fellow Polish migrant Franciszek Czapek. They separated in 1844, and in 1845 Patek joined with...
  
  
• Petrodvorets Watch Factory
  Petrodvorets Watch Factory
  The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is the oldest factory in Russia. Founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary Works, to make hardstone carvings, since 1962 it has manufactured the Soviet Raketa watches. In almost 300 years of history, the factory has changed name several times...
  
  
• Piaget SA
  Piaget SA
  Piaget SA is a Swiss luxury watchmakers and jewellers, founded in 1874 by Georges Piaget in the village of La Côte-aux-Fées. The company belongs to the Swiss Richemont group, specialists in the luxury goods industry....
  
  
• Pierce
  Pierce
  -Places:United States*Pierce, Colorado*Pierce, Idaho*Pierce, Kentucky*Pierce, Nebraska*Pierce, Texas*Pierce, Wisconsin*Mount Pierce , a peak in the White Mountains* Pierce County , several placesCanada...
  
  
• Adrien Philippe
  Adrien Philippe
  Jean Adrien Philippe was French horologist and cofounder of watchmaker Patek Philippe & Co. of Geneva, Switzerland.In 1842 Adrien Philippe invented a mechanism for watches which allowed them to be wound and set by means of crown rather than a key. His patented invention earned him a Gold Medal at...
  
  
• Henry Pitkin
  Henry Pitkin
  Henry Pitkin was a silversmith and watchmaker of Hartford, Connecticut.-Life:Pitkin with his brothers John, Walter, and James had a successful jewelry manufacturing business in Hartford, Connecticut. The Pitkins were known to have outstanding mechanical ability...
  
  
• Poljot
  Poljot
  Poljot , is a brand of Soviet/Russian wristwatches, produced since 1964 by the First Moscow Watch Factory . The flagship brand of the USSR's watch industry, Poljot produced numerous historical watches used in many important space missions, including the world's first space watch worn by Yuri Gagarin...
  
  
• Pulsar (watch)
  Pulsar (watch)
  Pulsar is a brand of watch and a division of Seiko Watch Corporation of America . While Pulsar was the world's first electronic digital watch, today Pulsar watches are usually analog...
  
  

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• Rado
  Rado (watch)
  Rado is a Swiss luxury manufacturer of watches, with headquarters in Lengnau, Switzerland. It is noted for its use of scratch-proof materials, a field in which it is considered a pioneer...
  
  
• Raketa
  Raketa
  Raketa watches have been manufactured since 1962 by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in Saint Petersburg. The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is Russia's oldest factory, it was founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary Works to make hardstone carvings...
  
  
• Raymond Weil
  Raymond Weil
  Raymond Weil Genève is a Swiss watchmaker, founded in 1976 in Geneva, Switzerland. It is one of the last independent brands in the Swiss luxury watch industry.-History:The company was created by Raymond Weil, now Chairman...
  
  
• Revue Thommen
  Revue Thommen
  thumb|200px|Airspeed XXL AutomaticRevue Thommen is a Swiss watch and aviation instrumentation manufacturer, originally established 1853 as Waldenburg clock and watch making company...
  
  
• Roamer
  Roamer (watchmaker)
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• Rodania
  Rodania
  Rodania is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches.The company was founded in 1930, in Grenchen, Switzerland, home to many other famous Swiss brands....
  
  
• Rolex
  Rolex
  Rolex SA is a Swiss watchmaking manufacturer of high-quality, luxury wristwatches. Rolex watches are popularly regarded as status symbols and BusinessWeek magazine ranks Rolex No.71 on its 2007 annual list of the 100 most valuable global brands...
  
  
• Rotary Watches
  Rotary Watches
  Rotary Watches Ltd was established at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Moise Dreyfuss in 1895. By the 1920s family members Georges and Sylvain Dreyfuss began importing Rotary watches to Britain, which was to become the company's most successful market...
  
  
• Daniel Roth
• Royal London
  Royal London
  Royal London may refer to:* Royal London Hospital, a hospital in Whitechapel, London, UK* Royal London Group, the UK's largest mutual life and pensions company.* Royal London Society for the Blind, a charity based in the UK...
  
  

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• Saeki
  Saeki
  The Saeki were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived on Honshū in the area between the modern regions of Kantō and Hokuriku.They are believed to have spoken a Tungusic language....
  
  
• Sandoz watches
  Sandoz watches
  Sandoz is a Swiss watch brand, originally established in the late 19th century by Henri Sandoz near Tavannes, Switzerland. There are now many variations of the Sandoz name which are used by at least four different companies around the world.-History:...
  
  
• Sector
  Sector No Limits (watchbrand)
  Sector No Limits is an Italian watch brand, which was created in 1973 by the Giardiello family, in Naples, Italy, then also owners of Philip Watch....
  
  
• Seiko
  Seiko
  , more commonly known simply as Seiko , is a Japanese watch company.-History and ongoing developments:The company was founded in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the...
  
  
• Seiko Instruments
  Seiko Instruments
  , or SII, is a Japanese company, renowned for developing and commercializing semiconductor, micromechatronics, and precision timepiece technology...
  
  
• Seikosha
  Seikosha
  was a branch of the Japanese company Seiko that produces clocks, watches, shutters, computer printers and other devices. It was the root of the manufacturing companies of the Seiko Group.*1881 — Kintarō Hattori opens the watch and jewelry shop "K...
  
  
• Sekonda
  Sekonda
  Sekonda is a British distributor of fashion wristwatches. Sekonda is the best-selling watch brand in the United Kingdom. Originally a company which marketed Soviet-made time pieces in the West, Sekonda's Soviet ties ended with the break-up of the USSR...
  
  
• Sinn (watchmaker)
  Sinn (watchmaker)
  Sinn is a high end watch-making company based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany that was established by pilot and flight instructor Helmut Sinn in 1961.-History:...
  
  
• SSIH previous holding company, now integrated into Swatch Group
• Skagen Designs
  Skagen Designs
  Skagen Designs, Ltd. is an international design company based in Reno, Nevada, that produces designer watches, clocks, jewelry and sunglasses....
  
  
• Slava watches
  Slava watches
  Slava watches were relatively inexpensive, classic "civil" Russian watches commonly referred to as "Slava Lava!". The Slava factory was the second non-military watch maker established in the Soviet Union, in 1924...
  
  
• SMH
  Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie
  Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie was the original name of the new holding company issued from the merger enforced by the Swiss Banks in 1983 of both the SSIH and ASUAG, now Swatch Group ....
  
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  Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie
  Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie was the original name of the new holding company issued from the merger enforced by the Swiss Banks in 1983 of both the SSIH and ASUAG, now Swatch Group ....
  
   previous name of the company issued from the merger of ASUAG & SSIH, now Swatch Group
• Star Watch Case Company
  Star Watch Case Company
  The Star Watch Case Company was a company in Ludington, Michigan, that operated from approximately 1905 to 1982. It designed and manufactured watch cases.-Product:The Star Watch Case Company manufactured watch cases...
  
  
• Suunto
  Suunto
  Suunto Oy, based in Finland, is a company that produces and markets sports precision instruments for Diving, Training and Outdoor sports. Headquartered in Vantaa, Suunto employs more than 500 people worldwide, and its products are sold in over 100 countries...
  
  
• Swatch
  Swatch
  Swatch is a brand name for a line of wrist watches from the Swatch Group, a Swiss conglomerate with vertical control of the production of Swiss watches and related products...
  
  
• Swatch Group
  The Swatch Group Ltd.
  The Swatch Group Ltd. is a Swiss company and watch manufacturer. It was formed in 1983 through the merging of the two Swiss watch manufacturers ASUAG and SSIH, and took its present name in 1998 . The company is led by G...
  
  

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• TAG Heuer
  TAG Heuer
  TAG Heuer is a Swiss luxury watchmaker known for its sports watches and chronographs. It is a division of luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton. The company motto is "Swiss Avant-Garde Since 1860"...
  
  
• TechnoMarine
  TechnoMarine
  TechnoMarine was founded in 1997, by French entrepreneur Franck Dubarry in Geneva, with the launch of the "Raft", a chronograph on a transparent plastic strap, selling 50,000 models in its first year and creating an entirely new category of luxury fashion timepieces, one which triggered a...
  
  
• Technos
  Technos (watches)
  -TECHNOS:The trademark ″Technos″ was firstly registered in and used since 1924, with an increasing success, thanks to the quality of its mechanical and automatic watches. After WWII, it has had years of significant market shares, especially in Japan and in Brazil...
  
  
• Seth Thomas
  Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
  Seth Thomas was an American clock maker and a pioneer of mass production at his Seth Thomas Clock Company.-Biography:Thomas was born in Wolcott, Connecticut, in 1785. He started in the clock business in 1807, working for clockmaker Eli Terry...
  
  
• Tianjin Sea-Gull
  Tianjin Sea-Gull
  Tianjin Seagull Corporation is a watchmaking company located in Tianjin, China. Founded in 1955, it is the world's largest manufacturer of mechanical watch movements, producing one quarter of total global production.-History:...
  
  
• Timex Group
• Tissot
  Tissot
  Tissot is a luxury Swiss watchmaker company founded in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot who established the Tissot factory in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel area of the Jura Mountains....
  
  
• Titan Industries
  Titan Industries
  Titan Industries is the world's fifth largest wrist watch manufacturer and India's leading producer of watches under the Titan, Fastrack, Sonata, Nebula, RAGA, Regalia, Octane & Xylys brand names. It is a joint venture between the Tata Group, and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation...
  
  
• Titoni
  Titoni
  TITONI LTD. is a Swiss watch company which was founded in 1919 by Fritz Schluep in the city of Grenchen. Nowadays the company is still in family property and employs around 50 workers. Since its foundation, the watches are sold mainly in the Asian and Middle East market.-History:In the year 1851,...
  
  
• Thomas Tompion
  Thomas Tompion
  Thomas Tompion was an English clock maker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the Father of English Clockmaking. Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watches in the world and can command very high prices whenever outstanding...
  
  
• Tourneau
  Tourneau
  Tourneau, Inc., is a watch retailer established in 1900 and based in the United States. Selling from inexpensive brands such as Citizen and Swatch all the way to top brands including Rolex and Patek Philippe & Co., and others, Tourneau with 37 boutique locations is one of America's largest...
  
  
• ToyWatch
  ToyWatch
  ToyWatch is an Italian designer wrist watch company that specializes in offering luxury style watches.ToyWatch's American subsidiary, ToyWatch USA, is based in Chicago and is owned by Randy Gordon....
  
  
• Tudor
• Tutima
  Tutima
  Tutima Uhrenfabrik GmbH is a German watchmaker based in Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. Tutima was established in 1927 in Glashuette/Sa. by the UROFA and the UFAG . In 1951, it was named Uhrenfabrik Kurtz....