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In 1853 Société d' Horlogerie à Waldenbourg was founded as a Swiss watch manufacturing company by the community of Waldenburg, Switzerland (Basel-Landschaft).It began to manufacture pocket watches in order to create work in the Waldenburg valley whose location at the route Basel-Geneva had become insignificant due to the newly established train connection Basel - Olten - Geneva.
The most famous example of a timekeeping device during the medieval period was a clock designed and built by the clockmaker Henry de Vick in c.1360, [88] [101] which was said to have varied by up to two hours a day. For the next 300 years, all the improvements in timekeeping were essentially developments based on the principles of de Vick's ...
The company built the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory in 1910 to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches. The company produced many of the self-winding wristwatch movements made in the United States, beginning with the 607 and 618 calibers (which were bumper wind) and the calibers 760 and 761 (30 and 27 jewels respectively).
A modern wristwatch featuring solar charging and Bluetooth capabilities A 1983 Casio watch with touchscreen. A watch is a timepiece carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities.
Laco Uhrenmanufaktur. The company name derives from the surname Lacher and the abbreviation Co. At the company’s time of establishment in the mid 1920s, many other watch manufacturers in Pforzheim used almost exclusively Swiss movements.
Kienzle original logo Kienzle Automatic Kienzle Uhren factory ID card, from 1944, of 16 years old forced labor worker from Poland. In 1883, Jakob Kienzle married into the Schlenker family, and became a partner in the company.
An advertisement from 1916 showing picture of the factory claimed that it employed 1.500 workers and produced 3.000 time-pieces daily. By 1920 the company was also producing alarm clocks. In 1924, a branch was established at Lommiswil, and the following year also an agency in La Chaux-de-Fonds. A 1959 advert boasted that a large new factory ...
A 1968 magazine ad of Sandoz watches in Persian, Zan-e Rooz. Henri Frédéric Sandoz (sometimes Frédéric Henri Sandoz), born in 1851, [1] was a self-made man of Le Locle who in the 1870s founded Henri Sandoz & Cie., later producing complicated watches under the name of Cyma.