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The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and employs about 31,000 people in 50 countries. [5] 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. [6] [7]
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 ...
Harry Winston, Inc. is an American luxury jeweler and producer of Swiss timepieces. [2] [3] The company was founded in 1932 as Harry H. Winston Jewels, Inc. and changed its name to Harry Winston Inc. in January 1936.
The Hamilton Watch Company is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland.Founded in 1892 as an American firm, the Hamilton Watch Company ended American manufacture in 1969, shifting manufacturing operations to the Buren factory in Switzerland.
Swatch, the largest watch and watch component company in the world, announced record second half profits for 2012. Its net income at $967 million was a 27% increase over the same period in 2011.
ETA designs and manufactures mechanical and automatic watches, watch movements and watch ébauches.Although the company produces finished watches and movements, ETA specializes in the production of ébauche movements used both in watches of sister Swatch Group subsidiary brands and in the watches of competitors, including brands owned by Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. and others.
Marc Hayek, the grandson of the Swatch Group's founder and chairman, Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010), has run Blancpain since 2002. [ 4 ] Later, SSIH became known as the Swatch Group , and in July 2010, Frédéric Piguet SA, also owned by Swatch Group, was merged into the firm Blancpain SA.
The list seen by Fortune reveals the Pershing Square Foundation owns a stake in X. ... Variable Insurance Products Fund II: VIP Contrafund Portfolio - Subportfolio A. VYC25 Limited.