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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 exporting Rotary watches to Britain, which was to become the company's most successful market. Rotary later became the official watch supplier for the British Army.
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The new Swiss owners wanted Durowe to produce exclusively mechanical movements for ladies’ and men’s watches. Through the German company, the Swiss company got easy access to the markets of the European Economic Community (EEC), which (since 2009) has been incorporated into the larger, more integrated European Union .
Roy Ehrhardt (1993) European Repeaters & Clock Watches, Book 1, Heart of America Press. ISBN 0-913902-72-1. A compilation of repeaters and clock watches found in auction catalogs over the years. 170 pages. A picture and a description of each watch is given. The watches are sorted by functions and brands. The Book 2 has not been released yet.
This list is a duplicate of Category:Watch brands, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname.
When the old factory building was modernized in 2008, an old concrete logo from the Langendorf Watch Company was uncovered. In 1902, Ernst Kottmann (1874–1944) became manager of the company, which he led until 1942 when he had to resign for health reasons. Among other initiatives, Ernst made the change from steam-powered production to ...
Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (America, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world.
Cyma SA is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury wristwatches, founded by brothers Joseph and Theodore Schwob in 1862.By 1908, Cyma was advertising the resilience of their timepieces when exposed to electricity, magnetism and varying temperatures. [1]