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The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and employs about 31,000 people in 50 countries. The group owns the Swatch product line and other luxury brands, including Blancpain , Breguet , Certina , ETA , Glashütte Original , Hamilton , Harry Winston , Longines , Mido , Omega , Rado , and Tissot .
Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which inexpensive, battery-powered, quartz-regulated watches were competing against more established European watchmakers, focused on artisanal craftsmanship ...
The Swatch Group. Website. blancpain .ch. Blancpain SA ( French pronunciation: [blɑ̃pɛ̃]) is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer, headquartered in Paudex / Le Brassus, Switzerland. [1] It designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells prestige and luxury mechanical watches. [2] [3] Founded by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain in Villeret, Switzerland in ...
Biel/Bienne, [1] Switzerland. Occupation. Businessman. Title. Swatch Group, founder/chairman. Nicolas George Hayek (19 February 1928 – 28 June 2010) was a Swiss businessman of Lebanese descent, and the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of The Swatch Group. [2]
Breguet is a Swiss luxury watch, clock and jewelry manufacturer founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. [1] Headquartered in L'Abbaye, Switzerland, Breguet is one of the oldest surviving watchmaking brands and a pioneer of numerous watchmaking technologies such as the tourbillon, which was developed into a practical solution by ...
Luxury brands. Watchmaking conglomerates. Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland. Companies based in the canton of Bern. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after manufacturing companies. Wikipedia categories named after companies of Switzerland.
In 1994 Hayek returned to Switzerland and joined the Swatch Group managed by his father, where he first worked as head of marketing at Swatch AG, then as president of the executive board, and finally as delegate of the board of directors. He has been CEO since 1 January 2003, and a member of the board of directors of the Swatch Group since 2010.
The Swatch Group: Hans-Rudolf Gottier Mido (watch) 1918 Biel/Bienne: George G. Schaeren Le Locle: Member of the Swatch group: The Swatch Group: Franz Linder, President: Minerva 1858: Villeret: Charles Robert: Mondaine: 1951 Solothurn: Erwin Bernheim Montres Corum Sàrl: 1955: La Chaux-de-Fonds: Gaston Ries, Simone Ries and René Bannwart: La ...