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The company operates 221 stores in the UK, US and Europe, [14] spread across the Watches of Switzerland, Mappin & Webb, Goldsmiths, Mayors and Betteridge brands. This includes 96 dedicated mono-brand boutiques in partnership with Rolex, Omega, TAG Heuer, Breitling, Tudor, Audemars Piguet, Seiko, Bulgari and Fope.
Swiss watch brand Christelle Rosnoblet (CEO) Squale Watches: 1959 Neuchâtel: Charles von Büren Chiasso: Andrea Maggi, Massimo Maggi Swatch: 1983 Biel: Subsidiary: The Swatch Group: Nick Hayek Jr. (chairman, president) TAG Heuer: 1860 [1] Saint-Imier [1] Edouard Heuer [1] [2] La Chaux-de-Fonds: Wholly owned subsidiary: LVMH: Frédéric Arnault ...
Rotary Watches' head office is now in the UK, and it is a wholly Chinese-owned company. Rotary offers a range of timepieces manufactured in Switzerland, together with a range of less expensive pieces made elsewhere, usually with movements from Japan which are then assembled in Japan or China.
In December 2006, Mappin & Webb, together with Watches of Switzerland, were acquired by Goldsmiths, which was also owned by the Baugur Group. [28] On 2 February 2009, the business and assets of Mappin & Webb were transferred to the Aurum Group (previously known as Goldsmiths). [29] Baugur became insolvent in 2010.
Christopher Ward (London), founded by Christopher Ward, Mike France and Peter Ellis in 2004, is a British watch company. It was the first online-only luxury watch retailer selling timepieces directly to the consumer. [1] Christopher Ward watches are designed in England and manufactured in Switzerland. [2]
The Swatch Group Ltd is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewellery. The company was founded in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, moving to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve the quartz crisis threatening the traditional Swiss watchmaking industry. [2] [3] [4]
The business was founded by Thomas Cooke as the Northern Goldsmiths Company in Blackett Street in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1892. [1] [2] [3]After selling marine chronometers to the Admiralty during the First World War, [4] the company became the UK’s first appointed stockist of Rolex watches in 1919.
Bovet Fleurier SA is a Swiss brand of luxury watchmakers chartered 1 May 1822 in London, UK by Édouard Bovet. It is most noted for its pocket watches manufactured for the Chinese market in the 19th century. Today it produces high-end artistic watches (priced between US$18,000 and $2.5 million) with a style that references its history.