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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 Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and employs about 31,000 people in 50 countries. [5]
On Monday, Harry Winston Diamond Corp. announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its luxury diamond jewelry and timepiece division to Swatch for $750 million. Additionally, Swatch will ...
The company also got a new CEO, Frederic de Narp, formerly of the Cartier North America. He succeeded Tom O'Neill. [20] On January 14, 2013, Harry Winston, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its luxury brand diamond jewelry and timepiece division, Harry Winston Inc., to the Swiss Swatch Group. [3]
Swatch is a Swiss watch company 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 ...
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The company moved its primary stock market listing from the London to the New York Stock Exchange on 11 September 2008, changing its name to Signet Jewelers Limited in the process. [6] The firm moved its country of domicile from the United Kingdom to Bermuda on the same day, [7] although it retains headquarters in Akron, Ohio. [1]
Tissot SA (French pronunciation:) is a Swiss watch brand owned by the Swatch Group. [1] The company was founded in Le Locle, Switzerland by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son, Charles-Émile Tissot, in 1853. [2] [3] Tissot is not associated with Mathey-Tissot, another Swiss watchmaking firm.