Le 1er juillet 1882, dans une annonce publiée dans l’«Anzeiger am Rhein», l’horloger Johann A. Hanhart signale aux «honorables habitants de Diessenhofen et des environs» l’«annonce respectueuse» qu’il a racheté un fonds de commerce et qu’il a pris possession de ses locaux pour y ouvrir une horlogerie.
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L’histoire horlogère de la famille Robert remonte au XVIIème siècle, un mérite qui ne réside pas seulement dans la longévité de cette maison horlogère, mais surtout dans la maitrise de savoir-faire techniques et artistiques accumulés durant tous ces siècles
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La grande histoire entre Cartier et l‘horlogerie qui donnera naissance à des chefs d‘oeuvre horlogers et des modèles cultes
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The origins of the EPOS Company date back to 1925. In that year, James Aubert formed his watch company in the Vallée de Joux, known as the centre of the mechanical watch world. James Aubert was an enthusiastic mechanical watch engineer, who dedicated his life to developing new watch mechanisms
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We look back to 1883, the founding year of the association of manufacturers and
retailers of watches that evolved into Alpina. Its members called themselves
affectionately the “Alpinists”, and they all shared the same target: the success of the
Alpina watch
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Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. Headed by the Macaluso family, it is situated in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and is a part of the Sowind group. The history begun with the watchmaker Jean-François Bautte
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The adventure began with René Bannwart. With his strong entrepreneurial spirit and watchmaking experience acquired from the most prestigious watch manufacturers, he founded his own brand and created CORUM in 1955 with his uncle Gaston Ries. Particularly fascinated by the word “quorum” which means the minimum number of persons present and necessary to hold discussions and make valid decisions, however René Bannwart simplified the spelling to CORUM.
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Edox’s story began back in 1883 with a simple love story. Christian Rüfli-Flury, then an exceptionally gifted watchmaker in Granges, decided to give his wife, Eva-Maria, a pocket watch that he had designed himself for her 25th birthday. Touched and impressed by the beauty of her gift, Eva-Maria then persuaded her husband to found his own watchmaking company in 1884. He named the company “Edox”. The name Edox means “hour” in ancient Greek, and the hourglass logo has adorned all Edox watches ever since
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The history of Rado begins in 1917 in the small Swiss town of Lengnau, when the three brothers Fritz, Ernst, and Werner Schlup open the Schlup & Co. clockwork factory. Exactly 40 years later, it becomes Rado Uhren AG: in 1957, the first watch collection is presented under this name – the beginning of an unusual success story
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Being influenced by the elite has always been a common tendency. But when profit replaces desire, it can become disturbing and even problematic. Counterfeiting should not be the answer. Indeed ethic should be always prioritized in every single business making, especially when the buyer might get cheated.
The house Patek Phillipe has been victim of counterfeiting since its creation. In 1850. we could already find some timepieces signed «Czapack&Patek» or «M.Pateck». Some watches even carried the name «Philippe Pateck»
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Rolex GMT is a watch designed initially for pilots. Indeed, the watch second hand has for aim to display an additional time zone. Pilots used it in the past to obtain Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). On the 21st century, Greenwich Mean Time became a time standard, replacing in 1972 the CUT (Coordinated Universal Time)
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