Wenger - watches

Military Tactical, Police, Sportsmen aviation Watches for Men
Wenger is one of two companies that have manufactured Swiss Army knives. Based in Delémont, Wenger was acquired by rival Victorinox in 2005.
Wenger Watch S.A. was founded in October 1997, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, with the target to build up a worldwide distribution network. Today, Wenger watches are represented in more than 80 countries on all continents, among them the USA, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Australia, of course Switzerland and many more.
In 1893 at Delémont in the French-speaking Canton of Jura, in Switzerland, the industrial cutlery house of Paul Boéchat & Cie received a contract from the Swiss Army to produce knives. In 1898, Theodore Wenger was hired to be its manager and later renamed the company Wenger & Co. S.A..
One of Wenger's first acts was to acquire a manufacturer of spoons and forks which he moved to a rented factory in Delemont. In 1900 a new 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) facility was built. Both the utensil operations and the Courtetelle cutlery production were incorporated into the new plant now called Fabrique Suisse de Coutellerie et Services.
In 1908 the Swiss Army decided to split the contract, with half of the order going to Victorinox, in the German-speaking canton of Schwyz, and the other half to Wenger in the French-speaking canton of Jura. They claim they did this in the interest of national harmony, but they may also have been interested in fostering competitive pricing.

Ollech & Wajs - O&W watch

Watches For aviators, soldiers, divers and sportsmen,
Ollech & Wajs (O&W) is a watch company based in Zurich, Switzerland. Ollech & Wajs started business in the 1950s when Albert Wajs began making and supplying stainless steel bracelets for wristwatches. In 1956, a partnership was formed with Joseph Ollech, and they soon began manufacturing wristwatches. Business was done from their retail premises in Zurich. They soon began to expand into world wide markets, more notably the US and UK markets by advertising in magazines that were popular with aviators, soldiers, divers and sportsmen, selling direct to the end user by mail order from Switzerland.

In the 1960s O&W sold a variety of professional automatic and manual-wind mechanical military and dive watches for an average of US $12. The Ollech & Wajs M 65 military watch was often sold at PX's on US military bases. These watches became very popular with US soldiers who bought them privately as a replacement for their government issued disposable watches. Sales reached an all time high during the Vietnam War era when they were selling thousands of watches via direct mail order.
Towards the late 1970s, Mr. Wajs bought up much of the Breitling company's stock for the aviation models such as the Navitimer. They began producing their own label watches using Breitling cases and the same calibre movements used in Breitling watches. These watches were branded “Aviation” and are now prized amongst collectors. During the first season of the 1970s British television series The Professionals, actors Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins wore what appear to be Ollech & Wajs Caribbean 1000 wristwatches.

Due to the growing popularity of quartz powered watch mechanisms in the late 1970s, much of the mechanical watchmaking industry suffered, and O&W finally ceased production in the early 1980s. In the 1990s, the company resumed production under a new company name, A.I. Wajs, formed by Albert Wajs. They continue to use the logo and the brand name Ollech & Wajs or O&W, as these brand names are owned by Albert Wajs.

Yema - Watches

Watches MEN- LADIES
Yema is a watchmaking company in Besançon, France. They claim that their watches "stand out from the rest by virtue of their specific design and technological characteristics".
The story of the Yema watch company begins in Besançon, France, circa 1948. Founded by Henry Louis Belmont, the Yema watch company distinguished itself in the very beginning by creating the first automatic chronometers manufactured entirely in France, and became famous for the technical qualities and sports characteristics of its watches.
The mystique of Yema watches was also marked by the brands decision to use name their watches after mythical models such as Superman, Yachtingraf, Rallygraf, Spationaute (which travelled through space on the wrists of Jean Loup Chrétien and Patrick Baudry), North Pole (designed for Jean Louis Etienne who crossed the North Pole), Flygraf, Bipôle, Cap Horn.

Xezo - Watches

Limited Edition Watches
Xezo is a designer brand which was founded in 2001. The Xezo (pronounced "Zee-zo") brand of luxury products is created for individuals who appreciate striking design, an emphasis on limited-edition production, and traditional "Old World" craftsmanship. The brand concept was to produce limited editions, yet sensibly priced, luxury items of high quality, such as Swiss-made timepieces, fine writing instruments, leather goods and luxurious eyewear.
This was to be achieved with highest quality materials used in production and direct marketing to the public. For example, one of the materials used extensively in its pen making is top quality natural mother-of-pearl. .925 (92.5 %) Sterling Silver is used in its timepieces. Leather products are handcrafted with premium grade Italian leather or vegetable-tanned leather. A variety of rich finishes, such as 20 micrometres of 18 carat (75 %) gold or platinum are used on many Xezo products. The luxury eyewear lines include pure Titanium frames. It is noteworthy that even Xezo’s leather goods and some of its selected eyewear are individually numbered.

The design concept of the Xezo brand is based on color patterns and their combinations borrowed from natural objects. Most Xezo productions are limited to 500 pieces per model.

Orient Watch

Watch for MEN
Orient (The Orient Watch Company) Limited is Japan's producer of mechanical watches and is a subsidiary of the Seiko Epson Corporation.
The Orient Watchws collection consists of the two main groups, namely 1) mechanical watches brought up through our long history in watch production, and 2) quartz watches of sporty taste with advanced and innovative design.
The Orient company was founded in Tokyo, July 1950; though, it has roots that date back to 1901 when Shogoro Yoshida opened a wholesale watch shop in Ueno. Through its sixty-year history, the company has contributed several technological advances in watchmaking efficiency such as the development of power-reserve indicators and use of in-house movement production of watches in the hundred-dollar price range.
In-house movement production, defined as a watch manufacturer having direct intellectual property rights to the movement they produce, is not common; the list of companies that do this is very short.
Although a subsidiary of the Seiko Epson Corporation, Orient operates as an individual entity. Orient sets itself apart from the other major Japanese watch companies by focusing on self-winding mechanical watches; Seiko, Citizen, Ricoh Elemex and others primarily or exclusively sell quartz watches.
The Orient Watches product lines available to the U.S. are:
* Orient Star
* Orient Diver Automatic
* Orient Executive
* Orient Lady Automatic
* Orient Urban Styling
* Orient Power Reserve
* Orient Racing Automatic

Movado - Watches

The Luxury Watch For men and Ladies
Movado is a Swiss watch company whose name is Esperanto for "movement". Movado was founded in 1881 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Achilles Ditesheim. The company was purchased by watch baron Gedalio Grinberg of New York in 1983; his son Efraim retired from being the company's current president and chief executive officer at age 50. The current president of Movado is Jeff Cohen.
In addition to its design, Movado watches tend to be regarded for being light. Most Movado styles include the use of sapphire crystal, which is highly scratch resistant and thus used by most watchmaking companies.

The company supported the construction of a public clock which was designed by the architect Philip Johnson, located outside Lincoln Center in New York City. In 2006, Movado celebrated its 125th year of watchmaking. With its watches set in museum collections around the world, the Movado Company has made its mark of success on the world. Its frequent publicity in famous magazines and other publications furthers this success.

Currently, Movado watches utilize both quartz and automatic movements in their timepieces. The Movado Group, Inc. also markets other watch brands: Concord, Ebel, ESQ Swiss, Coach Watches, Hugo Boss Watches, Tommy Hilfiger, Juicy Couture, Lacoste Watches and RALCO.

The company is currently known for its range of Museum watches which feature black clock faces and a single gold dot at the twelve o'clock position. The original Museum Watch was the first wrist watch to be displayed at the Museum of Modern Art and was designed by the American designer Nathan George Horwitt in 1947. Horwitt intended it to be evocative of a sun dial, with the dot representing the sun at high noon. This most recognizable look of a Movado is a simple hour and minute hand, with a solid background and a single depressed circle on the 12:00 mark. The Museum Dial, Movado's signature design, has no markings on for minutes or hours (although some of Movado's other designs now do).

MIDO - Watches

Men & Women Watches
MIDO Watches Founded in Switzerland in 1918 by George Schaeren, Mido is today based in the town of Le Locle, in the heart of the Swiss Jura mountains. The name Mido comes from the Spanish "Yo mido", I measure.
Mido created one of the first self-winding (automatic) wristwatch in 1934 with the introduction of the Multifort. The Multifort was also noted for being shock resistant, water resistant and anti magnetic. In the 1940s Mido introduced the first center chronograph (a watch with all hands arranged in the center).
Today, Mido is a part of the Swatch Group, headquartered in Le Locle, Switzerland. The watches are sold through 1600 authorized retailers in 50 countries around the world.

MIDO Watches history:
In 1918 Mr. Georges Schaeren, an experienced and ingenious Swiss watchmaker, founded MIDO G. Schaeren & Co.
In 1920s, Mido produced a wide range of art-deco styled models as well as watches in unique and innovative shapes, such as jewellery items, or sport accessories.
In 1930s, Mido was asked to create watches styled after the car-coolers of Bugatti, Buick, Excelsior, Peugeot, and Chevrolet - the status symbols of those days.
in 1934 The launching of the MULTIFORT line marked another milestone in the history of Mido. It was the first anti-magnetic watch with a self-winding movement and built in water-and shock-resistance. The Multifort was the best selling Mido watch from the 1930s to the 1950s.
In 1954 Development of the POWERWIND winding system which increased running reserve and reliability by reducing the watch components from 16 to 7 piece.
In 1959 The Mido OCEAN STAR marked the introduction of the revolutionary single-shell case, eliminating any problem of water-resistance from the backside of the case. The combination of this technology with the AQUADURA crown sealing system, makes Mido watches withstand even the most severe conditions. Today, this tradition of OCEAN STAR continues to live on in the famous Commander Collection
1967 In the Spirit of Innovation, Mido broke yet another barrier by launching the smallest ladies automatic watch ever manufactured in an assembly line.
During the 1970′s, Mido was also spearheading the development and innovation of digital watches.
in 1981 World-Champion in Tennis - Björn Borg- became official spokes-person for Mido Swiss Watches.
in 1995 Release of two high-tech models:
WORLDTIMER was the first analog watch which indicated the local time-zone anywhere in the world instantly with almost play-like ease of use.
BODYGUARD acted as a personal security assistant by providing the user with an integrated security alarm (over 100 decibels).
In 2000 Mido strives to create automatic watches of TIMELESS VALUE.
In 2002 "Reflecting on Time" is no mere slogan at Mido – such reflections have played a vital role in the development of the latest Mido collection.
Inspired by one of the most impressive buildings of the Roman era, the Coliseum in Rome, Mido has developed its new All Dial watch line. A mark of true design .
in 2006 Mido launched its first Baroncelli model 30 years ago. To mark the occasion, the Swiss brand is now presenting a new collection which will perpetuate the spirit of the line. A pure classical interpretation, inspired by the sublime and timeless aesthetic of stringed instruments.

Bulova - Watch

Aviation Watches for Men
Bulova is a New York U.S based corporation making watches and clocks. Bulova Watch Brand established its operations in Woodside, New York and Flushing, New York, where it made innovations in watchmaking, and developed a number of watchmaking tools . Its horological innovations included the Accutron watch which used resonating tuning forks as a means of regulating the time keeping function.
Bulova was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851-1936), an immigrant from Bohemia. It was reincorporated under the name Bulova Watch Company in 1923, and became part of the Loews Corporation in 1979.
Bulova's "Accutron" watches, first sold in October 1960, use a 360 hertz tuning fork to drive a mechanical gear train to turn the hands. The inventor, Max Hetzel, was born in Basel, Switzerland, and joined the Bulova Watch Company of Bienne, Switzerland, in 1948. The tuning fork was powered by a one-transistor electronic oscillator circuit, so the Accutron qualifies as the first "electronic watch". More than 4 million were sold until production stopped in 1977.
In the 1960s, the company was involved in a notable space age rivalry with Omega Watches to be selected as the 'first watch on the moon'. Ultimately, the Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph wristwatch (known as the "Moon watch") was designated by NASA for use by the astronauts in all manned space missions.
In 2008 a Bulova Automatic wristwatch, lost overboard by a sailor in 1941, was found after 67 years on the seabed and returned to its owner. It still works today.

On October 5, 2007 Citizen Holdings Company announced it would purchase Bulova Corp. for $247 million. On January 10th 2008 Citizen bought the Bulova Watch Company. Together they are the world's largest watchmaker.

Currently Bulova designs, manufactures, and markets several different brands, including: the signature "Bulova", the affordable "Caravelle", the dressy/formal Swiss-made "Wittnauer Swiss", and the sportier Swiss-made "Accutron".

Titan - watches

Watches for Flight Pilot - Aviator Chronograph watch
Titan Watches (Industries) is the world's sixth largest wrist watch manufacturer and India's leading producer of watches under the Titan, Fastrack, Sonata, Nebula, Octane & Xylys brand names.
Titan watch division was started in 1987. At launch it was the third watch company in India after HMT and Allwyn. Titan formed a joint venture with Timex, which lasted until 1998, and setup a strong distribution network across India. As of 2005, Titan watches account for a 25% share of the total Indian market and are also sold in about 40 countries through marketing subsidiaries based in London,Aden,Dubai and Singapore. Titan watches are sold in India through retail chains controlled by Titan Industries.
Titan Industries has claimed to have manufactured the world's slimmest wrist watch - Titan Edge. Produced indigenously after four years of research and development, the Titan Edge has a total slimness of just 3.5 mm and a wafer thin movement of 1.15 mm. Apart from the Titan Edge, Titan also offers Steel, Regalia, Raga, Fastrack, Technology, Nebula, Bandhan, Sonata, Octane, special RHosur, Tamil Nadu.

TAG Heuer - Watch

Sport Watches For Men and ladies, Diving, Aviation,and Race sport style
TAG Heuer is a Swiss watchmaker known for its sports watches and chronographs. It is a division of luxury goods company LVMH. The company motto is "Swiss Avant-Garde Since 1860".
The TAG Heuer company has its roots in 1860 when Edouard Heuer founded a watchmaking company in St-Imier, Switzerland, patenting his first chronograph in 1882. In 1887 Heuer patented an 'oscillating pinion' still used by major watchmakers for mechanical chronographs.
TAG Heuer was formed in 1985 when TAG (Techniques d'Avant Garde), manufacturers of high-tech items such as ceramic turbochargers for Formula One cars, acquired Heuer.
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In 1950s to the 1970s, Heuers were popular watches among automobile racers, both professionals and amateurs. Heuer was a leading producer of stopwatches and timing equipment, based on the volume of its sales, so it was only natural that racers, their crews and event sponsors began to wear Heuer's chronographs. Special versions of Heuer chronographs were produced with logos of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as well as the names or logos of racing teams or sponsors (for example, Shelby Cobra, MG and Champion Sparkplugs).

In 1962, Heuer became the first Swiss watchmaker in space. John Glenn wore a Heuer stopwatch when he piloted the Mercury Atlas 6 spacecraft on the first US manned space flight to orbit the earth. This stopwatch was the back-up clock for the mission and was started manually by Glenn 20 seconds into the flight. It is currently on display at the San Diego Air and Space Museum.

The Autavia chronograph was introduced in 1962 and featured a rotating bezel, marked in either hours, minutes, decimal minutes (1/100th minute increments) or with a tachymeter scale. All manual-wind Autavias from the 1960s had a black dial, with white registers. Early cases had a screw-back and later models (from and after 1968) had snap-backs. The "Autavia" name had previously been used on Heuer's dashboard timers.

The Carrera chronograph, designed by Jack Heuer, was introduced in 1963. The Carrera had a very simple design, with only the registers and applied markers on the dial. The fixed inner bezel is divided into 1/5 second increments. The 1960s Carreras were available with a variety of dials, including all-white, all-black, white registers on a black dial, and black registers on a black dial. A three-register, triple calendar version of the Carrera was introduced around 1968.

TAG Heuer is known for producing luxury timepieces.
The lines include Formula One, Aquaracer, Link, Carrera, Monaco and Grand Carrera. Most models feature quartz movements, water resistant cases and sapphire crystals.
Tag Heuer Watches, in keeping with its image as a luxury brand with an innovative spirit, has long standing links with the world of sport and Hollywood. Tag Heuer has been the official timekeeper of the three Summer Olympic Games of the 1920s, the Skiing World Championships, the Formula One World Championships and having developed a watch for the McLaren F1 team. The brand has also had a long list of sports and Hollywood ambassadors.

Some of the more recently announced models include the Tag Heuer Monaco V4 (the movement of which is driven by belts rather than gears); the Tag Heuer Carrera Calibre 360 (the first mechanical wrist chronograph to measure and display time to 1/100th of a second) and the Monaco 69 (with both a digital chronograph accurate to a millisecond and a traditional mechanical movement, with a hinged mechanism allowing wearers to flip the watch between its two separate dials).

Longines - Watches

Aviators - Pilot watches
Longines is brand of watch, originally a company founded by Ernest Francillon at Saint-Imier, Switzerland. Its origins can be traced back to the 1830s and it currently holds the oldest registered logo for a watch company (a winged hourglass). Longines is currently owned by the Swatch Group.
Longines is known for its 'Aviators' watches. One director of Longines was a friend of Charles Lindbergh; after his transatlantic flight, Lindbergh designed a pilot watch to help with air navigation. The watch was built to his specifications, and is still produced today.

Since 1832, Longines has been renowned for design and precision. Famous aviators, explorers and pioneers have consulted Longines. Longines provided timers used at the first modern day Olympics in 1892. In 1899, Longines went to the North Pole with Arctic Louis Amédée de Savoie.

Longines always strives for elegance in design and technological innovation. It was the first to use automatic timekeeping for the Federal Gymnastics, at Basel in 1912. Today, Longines remains a widely recognized name in sport watches and chronographs.

Alpina Watches

Watches for men
Alpina Watches was founded in 1883 by Gottlieb Hauser, watchmaker in Winterthur, who founded the Swiss Watchmakers Corporation ("Union Horlogère Suisse"). Alpina manufacturer of wrist watches based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. A number of watchmakers joined to purchase watch components and organized their manufacturing.
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During the First World War, the Allied Forces were obviously not pleased with business relationships between Switzerland and Germany. The Alpina Glashütte factory had experienced already major problems but also the relationships between the Swiss Alpina factories and their customers in Germany were under strong pressure. Finally in 1917, towards the end of the first World War, the Association "Union Horlogère" was formally dissolved. Two separate anonymous societies were incorporated: the Union Horlogère SA in Bienne, Switzerland and the Alpina Deutsche Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft G.m.b.H. in Berlin, Germany. The branch, which was in the charge of Swiss members, incorporated itself as yet a third separate association in the name of "Alpina Association des Horlogers Suisses". Activities of the companies surged dramatically after the First World War. Alpina watches were being sold with great success in 2000 retailers around Europe, from Lisbon to Copenhagen to Moscow.

All representatives of Union Horlogère depended on the Association, which aimed to sell high quality watches under the Alpina brand.
Quickly, the new concept gained acceptance. Together with qualified manufactures, the Association started to develop its own calibres and to enlarge its distribution network.
Everything ran well until the seventies, when the quartz crises violently crushed the Swiss watch-industry. Alpina was powerless to counter the overwhelming emergence of electronic watches. Other major brands got together to form groups (predecessor of the Swatch Group), but Alpina tried to fight it alone without really succeeding. In 1972, Alpina Watch International SA was incorporated with new German investors, which purchased all shares in Alpina Union Horlogère SA. In 2002, Alpina Watch International SA was acquired by Frederique Constant SA and Alpina watches were relaunched worldwide.

Named "Régulateur 1883" in reference to the year Alpina was founded, Alpina introduced a new model in 2005 as a fitting tribute to the long and rich tradition of the Geneva-based brand. The "regulator" dial is distinguished by the off-centred hour display at 10 o'clock, an exclusive Alpina feature.
In 2008, Alpina Genève celebrated its 125th anniversary with the inauguration of the first movement to be made entirely in its own workshops

Kolber - Watch

Kolber was faounde and lunced in Geneva in 80'S, Kolber is a lesser known make of Swiss watches and part of the Al Futtaim Group Company. They produce pocket watches as well as wristwatches some of which feature skeletonized movements. All watches are fitted with Swiss ETA movements. The brand is currently being marketed in 25 countries in Europe, the Far East and Middle East, "duty free" shops and on-board airlines.

Pulsar - watch

Watches for Men ...
Pulsar is among the leading watch brands worldwide. In 1972, the first Pulsar watch was made public by the Hamilton Watch Company. The expertise and novelty, through which it was created, mesmerized some contemporary press reports to shower a huge amount of praise on it. (Pulsar Is a division of Seiko watch Corporation of America (SCA))
The world's first electronic digital watch, created a sensation when it was unveiled in New York in 1972 and it changed the world's perception of time. At the time, it was the first of its kind incorporating digital display and electronic quartz. In fact the $2,100 limited edition 18K gold P1 watch, designed by the late Jean Wuischpard, is one of only a few watches on display in the museum at the smithsonian institute in Washington, D.C.

When the brand was taken into the Seiko Corporation stable in 1980, the move became a huge sensation and brought eminence to the brand. It brought further surprises to the world, the first calculator watch in 1980 and the first all-quartz watch line in 1981 were among its industry-leading achievements. And throughout the '80's and 90's Pulsar continued to bring to market new products that were born to be different. The Avant-garde collection in 1980's set a new style in women's watches and Spoon in 1990's were unique designs which further cemented Pulsar's image as an ingenious and surprising watchmaker. To replicate the accomplishment of the U.S. market, in the 1980s, the Pulsar brand was rolled out in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, and other European markets.

Citizen - Watch

Aviation, diving, Watches for men
Citizen (Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. ) is the core company of a Japanese global corporate group based in Tokyo, Japan. The Citizen company was originally founded as Shokosha Watch Research Institute in 1918 and is currently known as the manufacturer of CINCOM precision lathe machine tools as well as CITIZEN watches. The trade name originated from a pocket watch CITIZEN sold in 1924. It is one of the world's largest producers of watches.
Citizen Eco-Drive watches
In the United States, Citizen is best known for its Eco-Drive range of watches. Eco-Drive watches use a battery recharged by a solar panel hidden under the watch face. In the rare and discontinued Eco-Drive Duo series, the solar power was supplemented by an automatic quartz power source. There was also an Eco-Drive Thermo model that exploited temperature differentials between the wearer's skin temperature and ambient temperature to recharge the battery. However, the only Eco-Drive system currently described on the Citizen Watch Official Web Site is the one depending solely on light to recharge. The Eco-Drive feature is similar to the Tough Solar battery charging system used in G-Shock watches by Casio. All Citizen Eco-Drive models are made in Japan but may also be assembled in China.

Skyhawk A-T line of watches features Atomic Timekeeping with radio-controlled accuracy. The watches can synchronize with atomic clocks in Japan, North America, and Europe and will automatically select the correct frequency for doing so based upon location of home time zone. The watch actually tracks two time zones--home and world--but synchronizes to the 'home' zone. When traveling, the user may swap the 'home' and 'world' zones--thereby enabling proper time signal reception on a different continent while retaining the other time. Note that day, date, and Daylight Saving Time settings are also set automatically when the watch is synchronized.
These features are comparable to the synchronization with atomic clocks found in Casio Wave Ceptor watches.
Citizen also manufactures watches for collectors. For example, a watch bearing the colors and logo of the Blue Angels. This watch is part of the Skyhawk A-T line, which utilizes Eco-Drive as its primary power source and features Atomic Timekeeping. The bezel of the watch includes a slide rule useful for calculating time, distance, speed, conversions, and other computations useful for pilots. The Blue Angels use blue and gold as their trademark colors and the watch bears this color scheme.

Casio

Casio watches for men & ladies
Casio is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946 (Casio Computer Co., Ltd), with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches. In 1957 Casio released the world's first entirely electric compact calculator.
Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio, an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio's first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II so cigarettes were valuable, and the invention was a success.
fter seeing the electric calculators at the first Business Show in Ginza, Tokyo in 1949, Kashio and his younger brothers used their profits from the yubiwa pipe to develop their own calculators. Most of the calculators at that time worked using gears and could be operated by hand using a crank or using a motor (see adding machine). Kashio had some knowledge of electronics, and set out to make a calculator using solenoids. The desk-sized calculator was finished in 1954 and was Japan's first electro-mechanical calculator. One of the central innovations of the calculator was its adoption of the 10-key number pad; at that time other calculators were using a "full keypad", which meant that each place in the number (1s, 10s, 100s, etc...) had nine keys. Another innovation was the use of a single display window instead of the three display windows (one for each argument and one for the answer) used in other calculators.
n the 1980s, its budget electronic instruments and home keyboards gained huge popularity.

The company also became well known for the wide variety and innovation of its wristwatches. It is one of the early manufacturers of quartz crystal watches, both digital and analog. It also began selling calculator watches during this time. It was one of the first manufacturers of watches that could display the time in many different time zones and of watches with temperature, atmospheric-pressure, altitude, and even GPS position displays.
A number of notable digital cameras firsts have been made by Casio, including the first consumer digital camera with an LCD screen, the first consumer 3 megapixel camera, the first true ultra-compact model, and the first digital camera to incorporate ceramic lens technology.

Today, Casio is most commonly known for durable, large sized watches. Especially popular are its dual function (LCD and analog) watches, some of which, called Wave Ceptors, receive radio signals daily from an atomic clock to keep accurate time.

Other products include calculators, cash registers, illuminators, digital cameras (Exilim Series), laptop and sub-notebook computers, mobile phones, musical keyboards, PDAs (E-Data Bank), electronic dictionaries and Wordtank, Digital Diaries, computer printers, clocks, and portable televisions.

Seiko - Watches

Watches For Diving, Pilot-Aviator Watch
Seiko is a Japanese watch company, The company started in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called "K. Hattori" in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the name Seikosha. According to Seiko's official company history, titled "A Journey In Time: The Remarkable Story of Seiko" (2003), Seiko is a Japanese word meaning "exquisite," "minute," or "success." (The meaning "exquisite" meaning "success")

The Seiko first watches produced under the Seiko brand appeared in 1924. In 1969, Seiko introduced the Astron, the world's first production quartz watch; when it was introduced, it cost the same as a medium-sized car. Seiko later went on to introduce the first quartz chronograph. In 1985, Orient Watches and Seiko established a joint factory. Recognized as a leader in timekeeping accuracy, Seiko products are often used as the official timekeepers of the major sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup editions in Argentina 1978, Spain 1982, Mexico 1986, and Italy 1990.

Seiko produces both quartz and mechanical watches of varying prices. The least expensive are around ¥4,000 (US$45) (Alba); the most expensive (Credor JURI GBBX998) costs ¥50,000,000 (US$554,000). Seiko's mechanical watches are the most prized by collectors—from the Seiko "5" series (the 5 reflects the five essential features of the watch, namely shock resistant, water resistant, automatic, and day and date display), which is the most common; the Seiko automatic Chronometer series; the "Bell-Matic," with a mechanical alarm; to the highly prized luxury "Credor," "King Seiko," and "Grand Seiko" lines. Seiko Kinetic watches account for a large proportion of sales nowadays and combine the self-energizing attributes of an automatic watch with quartz accuracy. There is no battery to change; the watch is entirely powered by its movement in everyday wear.

On 7 October 2005, Seiko announced the world launch of the Seiko Spring Drive, a new movement that provides 72 hours of power, as opposed to the average of 40 hours in automatic mechanicals. This new movement, which employs a special alloy called "Spron510", has eliminated the traditional balance wheel/escapement regulating system in favor of a "Tri-synchro Regulator." The power from the spring is used to turn the wheels but is also used to generate electrical power for a tiny, ultra-low consumption (~25 nanowatts) crystal oscillator, which in turn is used to regulate (with quartz accuracy) the speed of the wheels to eight beats per second.

Seiko Watch Corporation — watches: Seiko (Grand Seiko, Dolce & Exceline, Brightz, Lukia, Prospex, iu, Ruse, Spirit, Alpinist, Ignition, Premier, Coutura, Arctura, Sportura, Criteria, Rivoli, Vivace, etc.), Credor, Galante, Wired, Wired XYZ, Alba, Pulsar, Lorus. Seiko Watch is a planning and marketing company. Seiko Holdings delegates a large portion of the manufacturing in its watch business to Seiko Epson and Seiko Instruments.

Tissot

Wacthes for Men, Sport, aviation and diving ...
Tissot is a Swiss watchmaker company founded in 1853 by Charles-Felicien Tissot and his son Charles-Emile who established the Tissot factory in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel area of the Jura Mountains.
Tissot introduced the first mass-produced pocket watch and the first pocket watch with two times zones in 1853 and the first anti-magnetic watch in 1929-30. Charles-Emile Tissot left for Russia in 1858 and succeeded in selling their savonnette pocket watches across the Russian Empire. The Tissot company was also the first to make watches out of plastic (IDEA 2001 in 1971), stone (the Alpine granite Rock watch in 1985), mother of pearl (the Pearl watch in 1987), and wood (the Wood watch in 1988). Tissot merged with the Omega watch making family in 1930 and Tissot-Omega watches from this era are sought after by collectors.

Still based in Le Locle, Switzerland and present in more than 150 countries around the world, Tissot has been a member of the The Swatch Group Ltd., the largest watch producer and distributor in the world, since 1983.
Tissot is an official timekeeper for the world championships in cycling, motorcycling, fencing and ice hockey, and was used for the Davis Cup in 1957 and Downhill Skiing in Switzerland in 1938.

Tissot Watches has become known in recent years for its tactile, or "T-Touch," technology; several new watches have touch-sensitive sapphire glasses and include compasses, barometers, altimeters and thermometers. T-Touch watches have been recently featured in the movies Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Famous people who have worn Tissot watches include the actress Sarah Bernhardt, singer Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Grace Kelly, and Nelson Mandela. James Stewart also wears a Tissot watch in the movie "Rear Window".

Concord - Watch

Watches for men and women...

Concord Watch founded in 1908 in Biel Switzerland the brand was created to design watches with the American market in mind. Concord has had a few innovations in their history such as being one of the first “private label” luxury watches to incorporate precious metals and gems in their watches. They were also the first company to make a wristwatch made of coins. In 1979 they had a major breakthrough with the invention of the Delirium Watch which was the thinnest watch ever made at the time at 1.98 mm thick. They subsequently released a delirium 2 which was even thinner at 1.5 mm.

In 2007 the company made a drastic change in its vision. It closed most of it’s existing dealerships as sluggish sales and lack of a specific market created a huge grey market that hurt the company’s reputation. The launch of the C1 was highly touted and targeted the ever popular luxury sport market. The style and pricing were designed to compete with watches such as Panerai, AP and Hublot. With only a couple hundred dealers worldwide Concord was hoping for a grand relaunch into the Luxury sector. In 2008 Concord created two new C1 pieces. The C1 worldtimer and the C1 Gravity Tourbillion. The later won the prestigious “Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve” as “Best design of the year 2008”. Whether this success will lead to ultimate success remains to be seen.
NEW concord Watches C1 Heart2Heart - New partnership between Concord & Ronny Turiaf ( limited edition of the C1 Chronograph to help the Ronny Turiaf Heart to Heart) Foundation.

Omega - Watch

Aviator-Pilot & Diving Watches
Omega is a high-end luxury watch company based in Biel/Bienne Switzerland. Omega watch was the choice of NASA and the first watch on the Moon in 1969. It is also the current choice of watch for James Bond ever since 1995.
The forerunner of Omega was founded at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1848 by 23-year-old Louis Brandt, who assembled key-wound precision pocket watches from parts supplied by local craftsmen. He sold his watches from Italy to Scandinavia by way of England, his chief market. After Louis Brandt's death in 1879, his two sons Louis-Paul and César, troubled by irregular deliveries of questionable quality, abandoned the unsatisfactory assembly workshop system in favour of in-house manufacturing and total production control.

In 1999, with the successful own development of Calibre 2500 , Omega made history by introducing the first mass-produced watch incorporating the co-axial escapement, invented by English watchmaker George Daniels. Considered by many to be one of the more significant horological advances since the invention of the lever escapement, the co-axial escapement functions with virtually no lubrication, thereby eliminating one of the shortcomings of the traditional lever escapement. Through using radial friction instead of sliding friction at the impulse surfaces the co-axial escapement significantly reduces friction, theoretically resulting in longer service intervals and greater accuracy over time .
On January 24, 2007 Omega unveiled its new Calibres 8500 and 8501, two co-axial (25,200 bph) movements created exclusively from inception by Omega.

Panerai - Watches

Find Military Watch - Wrist watch special editions
Panerai was founded in 1860 in Florence by Giovanni Panerai (1825–1897), Officine Panerai is an Italian brand of watches owned by Richemont International SA. It later became the official supplier of the Royal Italian Navy and expanded to building precision instruments. The company is famous for its Radiomir and Luminor watches, notable for their use by Italian commando frogmen, who relied upon their Panerai wristwatches to execute the sinking of Allied naval vessels in WWII.
Officine Panerai is an Italian brand of watches owned by Richemont International SA. Its watches are currently manufactured in Neuchâtel, Switzerland with some movements designed and manufactured in-house. Otherwise they use decorated ETA movements.

The Florence-based watchmaker produced wrist worn diving instruments and about 300 watches, all for the Italian Marina Militare, between 1938 and 1993. By that time, the company ceased to provide watches to the Marina Militare, as they were no longer cost-effective nor did they meet the naval specifications. It then moved to launch its products to the civilian market, but remained relatively obscure until the actor Sylvester Stallone spotted and bought a Panerai Luminor in a jewelry store in Rome in 1995 to wear during shooting of the film Daylight. Stallone ordered a small batch of such watches with his signature on the case back, called Slytech. He offered them as gifts to friends, including Arnold Schwarzenegger. The watch gained rapid popularity, and Officine Panerai was eventually taken over by Richemont in 1997. It should however be noted that the original Panerai were fitted with Rolex movements as worn by the Italian command frogmen.

Recent fashion changes and Panerai's success marketing large watches has also led other companies to introduce larger watches.

Panerai has four major lines of watches, Historic, Contemporary, Manifattura and Special Editions. Most watches are produced in a limited run (normally of 500, 1000, 2000 or 4000 units) and carry an issue number on the case back. Panerai issues Special Editions every year. In 2006 it issued the 1936 California Dial Radiomir special edition, a reissue of the first Panerai model ever presented to the Italian Marina Militare. This model was limited to a run of 1936 units.

When the contract between Girard-Perregaux and Ferrari expired a new partnership was signed with Panerai to develop, manufacture and distribute watches under the Ferrari trademark. A New York representative for the watch company has called Panerai the official timekeeper to Ferrari. Panerai Ferrari watches are divided into two collections: Granturismo and Scuderia.

Panerai issue many watches as either limited or special editions producing fewer watches than the market demands. Retailers may only receive a few limited edition pieces each per year and long waiting lists for popular models are not uncommon. Hence this brand has become a popular investment piece with resale values of used Panerai often matching list prices of a new watch.

Gerald Genta - Watches

Watch for Men & Women
Gérald Genta created iconic models that have become milestones in the history of the greatest names in Swiss prestige watchmaking. Charles Gérald Genta (born May 1, 1931 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss watch designer. In 1994 he designed the "Grande Sonnerie", the world's most complicated wristwatch.

Gérald Genta watches
2007 Launch of the new Gefica, an exceptional model featuring a complex case crafted in bronze and titanium. Opening of the two first own-name Gérald Genta boutiques in Paris and Geneva. Construction of the new premises of the Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie Gérald Genta in Le Sentier.
2005 World-first launch of the Chrono Quatro Retro, equipped with a column-wheel chronograph movement and 4 retrograde functions.
Launch of the Tourbillon Incontro, combining a complicated mechanical movement with a digital display.

2004 Launch of the Octo line, referring to the Brand’s original octagonal model.
2000 The Gérald Genta brand is bought up by the Bulgari group.
1996 Development of the Retrograde and Biretrograde movements that are to become brand signature features.
1994 Presentation of the Grande Sonnerie Tourbillon Automatic with 4 hammers, Westminster chime, perpetual calendar and dual time zone. Considered at the time to be the world’s most complex wristwatch.
1988 Gérald Genta hits the watchmaking headlines with the launch of the Gefica, the first model equipped with a model featuring complications dedicated to “Big Five” hunters (lions, leopards, elephants, rhinoceros and buffalos). The main innovation, a world first for a wristwatch, the movement is clothed with a bronze case, a material guaranteeing the model against any inadvertent glinting that would warn the prey of the hunter’s approach.
1979 Gérald Genta is awarded the much-coveted Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark.
1973 Development of the first Grande Sonnerie 3-hammer pocket-watch and of the first Gérald Genta Perpetual Calendar model.
1969 Gérald Genta creates his own brand and opened his workshops in St-Jean - Geneva.

Chronograph - Watch

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A chronograph is a timepiece or watch with both timekeeping and stopwatch functions. Pocket watch chronographs were produced as early as the 18th century but did not become popular until the 1820s. The term 'Chronograph' is often confused with the term 'Chronometer' which in some cases designates a watch that has received a precision certification. The Marine chronometer was an accurate timepiece used to enable celestial navigation.
There are many types of chronographs.
* Digital chronographs use a digital display for both timekeeping and stopwatch functions, either with separate displays or by switching modes on a single display.
* Analog-digital chronographs have a standard analog watch with permanent center seconds and a separate digital display that usually operates independently of the analog section. A fallback will reset to zero and then continue to run when the reset button is pushed while the stopwatch is running. In contrast, most mechanical chronographs will reset to zero only when the stopwatch is stopped.

MB&F - Watches

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MB&F is a creative laboratory developing three-dimensional high-end timepieces with collaborations of horological artisans and artists. Founded by Maximilian Büsser, the brand is based in Geneva, Switzerland. MB&F presented its first watch, Horological Machine No.1 in 2006 and has followed that up by presenting a new Horological Machine each year.
Horological Machines are as much, if not more, art and sculpture as they are micro-engineering: they are machines which tell the time rather than machines to tell the time.
By designing and constructing three-dimensional machines rather than wristwatches, MB&F are able to break free of the constraints imposed by traditional horology and create kinetic art.
MB&F Horological Machine
Horological Machine No.1 (HM1)
Horological Machine No.2 (HM2)
Horological Machine No.3 (HM3)
Horological Machine N°2 Black box

Maximilian Büsser After graduatinged with a masters degree in micro-technology engineering, Maximilian Büsser's first employer was Jaeger-LeCoultre where he spent seven years in their senior management team during a period of change and strong growth.
Büsser was appointed managing director of Harry Winston Rare Timepieces in 1998. During his seven years there he transformed the company into a well-respected haute horlogerie brand. Working with talented independent watchmakers on the revolutionary Opus series of timepieces planted the seed for developing that concept further still.
In 2005 Büsser resigned from Harry Winston to form MB&F, with the ethos of ackknowledging the contribution of the individuals who contributed to each project.

Breguet Watches

Luxury watches For Men and Ladies
Breguet is a manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland.
Breguet is one of the oldest surviving watch-making establishments and is the pioneer of numerous watch-making technologies, the most notable being the tourbillon, invented by Abraham Louis Breguet. Breguet has recently introduced a line of writing instruments as a tribute to writers who mention or feature Breguet watches in their works. Breguet watches are often easily recognized for their coin-edge cases, guilloché dials and blue pomme hands (often now referred to as 'Breguet hands').

Tourbillon - watches

Tourbillon watches for men
A Tourbillon or Tourbillion is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement. Invented in 1795 by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, a tourbillon counters the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, ostensibly in order to negate the effect of gravity when the timepiece (and thus the escapement) is rotated. Originally an attempt to improve accuracy, tourbillons are still included in some expensive modern watches as a novelty and demonstration of watchmaking virtuosity. The mechanism is usually exposed on the watch's face to show it off.

Modern tourbillon watches
In modern mechanical watch designs, a tourbillon is not required to produce a highly accurate timepiece; there is even debate amongst horologists as to whether tourbillons ever improved the accuracy of mechanical time pieces, even when they were first introduced, or whether the time pieces of the day were inherently inaccurate due to design and manufacturing techniques.
Nevertheless, the tourbillon is one of the most valued features of collectors' watches and premium timepieces (Ref. August 2006 WatchTime article Girard-Perregaux's Tourbillon Icon), possibly for the same reason that mechanical watches fetch a much higher price than similar quartz watches that are much more accurate. High-quality tourbillon wristwatches, which are usually made by the Swiss luxury watch industry, are very expensive, and typically retail for at least thousands of dollars or euros, with much higher prices in the tens of thousands of dollars/euros being common.
A recent renaissance of interest in tourbillons has been met by the industry with increased availability of time pieces bearing the feature, with the result that prices for basic tourbillon models have receded somewhat in recent years (where as previously they were very rare, in either antiques or new merchandise); however, any time piece that has a tourbillon will cost a great deal more than an equivalent piece without the feature.

Modern implementations typically allow the tourbillon to be seen through a window in the watch face. In addition to enhancing the charm of the piece, the tourbillon can act as a second hand for some watches as it generally rotates once per minute.
However some Tourbillons spin faster (Gruebel Forsey's 24-second tourbillon for example.). There are many "Tourbillon" fake/replicas of premium brand watches that emulate this feature with the oscillating balance wheel visible through the watch dial; however, these are not tourbillons.
In the late 20th century, the first research into multi-axis tourbillion movements was done by British clockmakers Anthony Randall and Richard Good, eventually producing two- and three-axis tourbillon movements.

Double Axis Tourbillon
Inspired by these genius clockmakers the young german watchmaker Thomas Prescher developed for the Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie in 2003 the first flying Double Axis Tourbillon in a pocketwatch and in 2004 the first flying Double Axis Tourbillon with constant force in the carriage in a wristwatch. Shown at the Baselworld 2003 and 2004 in Basel, Switzerland.
A characteristic of this tourbillon is that it is turning around 2 axes. The first axis and the second axis are both turning once per minute. The whole tourbillon is powered by a special constant force mechanism, called Remontoire[2]. Thomas Prescher invented the constant force mechanism in the carriage for the necessary power in the Double Axis Tourbillon. He has chosen the mechanism to equalize the different forces caused by wound and unwound mainspring, friction, and gravitation effects. So that even force is always supplied to the oscillation regulating system of the Double Axis Tourbillon.

Triple Axis Tourbillon
Thomas Prescher developed for the Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie in 2004 the first Triple Axis Tourbillon with constant force in the carriage in a wristwatch. Presented at the Baselworld 2004 in Basel, Switzerland in a Set of three watches. A Single Axis Tourbillon, a Double Axis Tourbillon and a Triple Axis Tourbillon.
Characteristic for this technical high-end complication is that the tourbillon is turning around 3 axes. The first axis and the second axis both complete one rotation every minute and the third axis is turning once every hour. The Triple Axis Tourbillon is powered, same as the Double Axis Tourbillon, by a special constant force mechanism, called Remontoire.

Oris - Watch

Watches for Motor Sport, Aviation, Culture and Diving ... Watches for Men
Oris is a brand of Swiss wristwatches. The Oris watch factory was founded by Paul Cattin and Georges Christian at Hölstein (Basel-Country) in 1904. Oris are well known for producing only mechanical watches.
Over 100 years Oris has been making watches in Switzerland. Our watches are purely mechanical and are marked out by their distinctive design as well as the red rotor, the symbol of Oris mechanicals. Oris watches are also popular, as celebrities from Formula One, diving, jazz, aviation, and Hollywood queue up to wear and support our unique creations.

KIENZLE Watch

Watch Made in Germany
KIENZLE is one of Germany oldest watch labels and combines tradition, modern design and quality in all watch collections. Founded in 1822 in Schwenningen, the company headquarters in Hamburg since 2002.
In 1822 Johannes Schlenker founds a clocksmith's workshop in Schwenningen and starts with manufacture and sales of hand-crafted, wooden twelve-hour clocks with a cord-driven (weighted) winding mechanism. When his three sons take over the business, there are already 20 members of staff producing 2,000 pendulum and wall clocks per year.

The watch collection of the company includes numerous models in different price segments. Based on the corporate philosophy KIENZLE designs and produces distinctive watches for discerning individuals.

"KIENZLE KLASSIK" covers the entry price level while "KIENZLE 1822" handles the mid-price segment and the "EDITION JAKOB KIENZLE" meets highest demands. Alongside there are alarm clocks and wall clocks as ever.

"KIENZLE KLASSIK" and "KIENZLE 1822" are similar in their classification. "KIENZLE KLASSIK" is structured in Mechanics, Sports, Elegance, Classical, Satellite and pocket watches. The design is up-to-date and diversified with different case shapes and dials.

The name "KIENZLE 1822" is leaned on the founding year of the company and handles the mid-price segment. The five classifications are called Mechanics, Sports, Luxury, Retro and pocket watches. These models are distinguishable from each other through different mechanical movements and designs. The collection "Retro" exhibits classical design and robust mechanical calibres. The collection "Sports" is a contrast by incorporating dynamic and action. Typical is for example the use of steel bracelets in place of leather.

The "EDITION JAKOB KIENZLE" meets the highest demands and is the highlight of the watch collection. Eight luxurious models with different complications can be distinguished. The watches are numbered and do not have a special name. Watch "No.3" is characterised by a 52-week display, while "No.4" has a perpetual calendar and "No.5" is available with a moon phase. The design is traditional and complies outstanding watchmaking.

The "EDITION COLOR" is the latest collection of the brand and comes along with fresh colours on the inside of the leather straps. Most of the models are "Made in Germany".

Urwek watches

Watch for men
URWERK was born from a meeting in 1995 between two brothers, Felix and Thomas Baumgartner, both gifted watchmakers, and friend Martin Frei, a talented artist and designer.These young men were united by their common passion for measuring and portraying time. A long discussion, a sharing of philosophies and dreams, culminated in a decision to create their own vision of time. Their goal is the development and new conception of expensive watches. The company is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
WERK. In the German language, 'werk' means to work, create, evolve,shape, forge and to arouse emotions.
UR. The city of Ur was the very place where our perception of time was molded over 6000 years ago by the moving shadows cast by the obelisks of Ur. These giant sundials unveiled the mysteries of the earth's movement through space. The Sumerians, the people of Ur, declared that the passage of these shadows through the course of one year should be partitioned into12 units, thus laying the foundation for a system of timekeeping which has endured to this day
URWERK SA was launched in 1997 with one overriding aim: to follow nobody but to create their own path in pushing the boundaries of haute horlogerie ever further.

URWERK Watches
* 2009 URWERK unveils the UR103t (The Tarantula).
* 2007 Launch of their newest watch model "201" at Geneva Fairs. Time on the "201" is displayed using telescopic minute hands operating through the middle of three orbiting and revolving hour satellites. The telescopic minute hands precisely adjust their length to follow the three vectors marking the minutes: 0 -14, 15 - 44, 45 - 60. Extended, they enable the 201 to display the time across a large easy-to-read, dial. Retracted, they allow for a very wearable sized case; thus providing the wearer with both capabilities.
* 2005 Launch of the watch model "103.03".
* 2003 Presentation of their new watch "103" with its orbiting satellites at Basel which caught the attention of "Harry Winston Rare Timepieces". On the "103", four orbiting and rotating satellites display the hours, with each satellite indicating the time in both analogue and digital fashion as it arcs across the minute chapter.
* 2004 Urwerk begins work on the watch model of Opus V in partnership with Harry Winston.
* 1997 Launch of their first watch named "101" (gold) and "102" (steel) at Basel with the AHCI.

Zenith

Swiss Watches for Men & Ladies
Zenith SA is a Swiss watch manufacture started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot at the age of 22, in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel.

Zenith Watches Presently, Zenith markets five watch lines, including the Chronomaster, Class, Port-Royal, Vintage, Defy and Star.
Zenith has a long reputation for the quality and precision of their watches, with 1,565 1st-place precision awards to date. Zenith, is one of the few Swiss watch brands that make their own mechanical movements - the Elite (standard movement) and the El Primero (chronograph). The El Primero movement has a frequency of 36,000 alternations per hour. This high rate ensures that the chronograph with be accurate to 1/10th of a second.
Zenith was purchased by luxury giant LVMH in November 1999, becoming one of several brands in LVMH's watch and jewelry division.

Lange & Sohne - Watches

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A. Lange & Söhne is a trademark of premier German watchmaking company Lange Uhren GmbH.
Lange was founded in 1845 by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in the little town of Glashütte, near Dresden in the state of Saxony. In 1948, the post-war Soviet administration expropriated the company's property, and the Lange brand ceased to exist. But in 1990, after the collapse of the East German communist government, Adolph Lange's great-grandson, Walter Lange, restored the company with help from a family of Swiss watch manufacturers including IWC. Now A. Lange & Söhne (litt. A. Lange & Sons), like IWC, belongs to the Richemont group of companies.
Lange & Sohne Its watches rank among the finest in the world and sell in the same general price range as watches made by such top-tier Swiss firms as Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin.
More recently, on March 15, 2007, the company unveiled the culmination of a multi-year effort to produce the first wearable mechanical watch with a 31-day power reserve: that is, a watch that need be wound only once per month (with a special key). To guarantee the power reserve for a month, the brand's watchmakers used two stacked mainspring barrels that store the required energy.

Tutima

The Military Watches
Tutima Uhrenfabrik GmbH is a German watchmaker based in Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. Tutima was established in 1927 in Glashuette/Sa. by the UROFA (Uhrenrohwerkefabrik Glashütte AG) and the UFAG (Uhrenfabrik Glashütte AG). In 1951, it was named Uhrenfabrik Kurtz.

On the outbreak of World War I, the market for expensive precision watches collapsed virtually overnight. A decade of turbulence and upheaval was to follow. In 1926, the situation in Glashütte was desolate. December 1926 saw the foundation of a group of companies which, it was hoped, would put an end to the structural crisis. Uhren-Rohwerke-Fabrik Glashütte AG - UROFA - and Uhrenfabrik Glashütte AG - UFAG were set up, headed by jurist Dr. Ernst Kurtz. Apart from the initial production of superior quality pocket-watches, under the management of Dr. Ernst Kurtz and a few competent associates, the companies developed and produced their own ebauches for wristwatches. This led to a series of movements that could easily stand comparison with the competition from Switzerland. The top quality models were entitled "Tutima", a brand name chosen not without good reason. The founders had derived the name from the Latin adjective "tutus", which translates as "safe" or "protected". The product quality and the distribution exclusively through selected stockists soon earned Tutima an excellent reputation. Some 1000 employees enjoyed a secure livelihood.

One of the undoubted highlights of the early Tutima watches was the last and arguably most sophisticated development by UROFA-UFAG, the Tutima Classic Flieger Chronograph. This wrist chronograph set new aesthetic and functional standards and is regarded as the model for many subsequent developments.
Tutima Military Watches series:
The Military NATO Chronograph T
The Military NATO Chronograph TL
The Commando II Chronograph
The Tutima Pacific
The Pacific 300
The DI 300
The Yachting Chronograph

Junghans

German watches,

Junghans Uhren GmbH is Germany's largest watch and clock manufacturer.
The company is located in Schramberg, Baden-Württemberg. On 15 April 1861 Erhard Junghans created the company „Junghans und Tobler“ together with his brother-in-law Jakob Zeller-Tobler in Schramberg

The Junghans began to produce wristwatches in 1927. Beginning in the 1950s, the virtuoso designer Max Bill created clocks and watches for Junghans and the relationship lasted many years. A remarkable example of his work is a wall clock he designed in 1956/57 that is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York). In 1962 Bill also created mechanical wristwatches for Junghans – impressive timepieces, not only for their aesthetic design, but also their precision.

In the late 1980s, Junghans introduced the first radio-controlled table clock on the world market. In 1990, the first radio-controlled wristwatch followed, called the MEGA 1. In 1995 Junghans presented the ultimate combination of the solar powered watch with ceramic housing and solar-powered technology. Currently, Junghans is developing with the Japanese clock maker Seiko a globally oriented wristwatch, which automatically sets the local time in respective time zones. Junghans Watches & Clock is a well-known brand in Europe.

Nomos Glashütte

Watches for man
Nomos Glashütte is a German watch-making company that was founded in 1991 in Glashütte, Saxony by Roland Schwertner.
Glashutte to distinguish it from a different "Nomos" watch-making company called Nomos-Uhr-Gesellschaft, Guido Müller & Co. (Nomos Watch Company), which imported Swiss watches and sold them under the prestigious label Glashütte / Sachsen. This firm was sued by A. Lange & Söhne, leading to the end of the company in 1910.
he new Nomos has focused on manufacturing mechanical watches with hand-wound movements. The basis for the movement was, until 2005, the Swiss-made ETA SA / Peseux 7001. These watches bear the label "Glashütte / SA" and "Made in Germany", and have gilded movements.

Since April 2005 Nomos has only used in-house movements called "Alpha" (standard manual movement), "Beta" (with date display), and "Delta" (with date and power reserve display). These new movements are labelled "Glashütte" and "Germany" and are nickel plated with Geneva stripes. In the summer of 2006 the "Tangomat" was introduced. This watch includes the movement "Epsilon" (automatic) or "Zeta" (automatic with date display).

The watches were designed in 1990 in the Bauhaus purist style by Susanne Günther and have won several design awards.
In 2007 they started manufacturing the more expensive Chronometerwerke range of watches for Wempe, a German jeweller.

Sinn

Watches for pilots
After its establishment, the company constructed instrumental watches and watches for pilots based on Mr. Sinn's extensive aviation experience, that was primarily based on dissatisfaction with the flight watches that were available for pilot and navigational purposes at that time. Sinn's own designs incorporated the features and functionality that he felt more fit for the purpose as an instrument watch. This design philosophy has transcended the company's culture right through to the present day.
Solely selling the watches with direct marketing, thereby avoiding additional costs of intermediate trade, Sinn was able to sell its watches with a very good price/performance ratio. The watches were manufactured as OEM products in Switzerland according to Sinn's specifications and very popular among pilots because of their outstanding quality and design.

STOWA - German watch

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STOWA is a German watch manufacturer based in Engelsbrand, Germany. STOWA is currently owned by Jörg Schauer, who also owns the Schauer watch brand and the DUROWE watch movement brand.
In 1927, Walter Storz founded STOWA by establishing his own brand that was manufactured at his father's watch factory in Hornberg, Germany. The name he chose for his new company was based upon his name: STO being the first three letters of his surname and WA being the first two letters of his first name.
At present, STOWA has five model lines:

* Antea - a replica of an original STOWA design from the 1930s
* Airman (Flieger) - a homage to the original B-Uhr
* Marine - a watch based on the marine chronometers used in navigation
* Prodiver - a diving watch water resistant to 1000m
* Seatime - a sports watch water resistant to 300m

The movements in STOWA's watches are mostly ETA movements with significant decoration and, in the case of the Airman Original, mechanical modifications. Since Jörg Schauer owns the Durowe (Deutsche Uhrenrohwerke) movement brand, it is anticipated that Durowe movements will be used in STOWA watches in the future.

Shock Resistant watch

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Shock resistant is a common mark stamped on the back of wrist watches to indicate how well a watch copes with shocks.
The International Organization for Standardization issued a standard for shock resistant watches, which many countries have adopted. ISO 1413 Horology—Shock-resistant watches specifies the minimum requirements and describes the corresponding method of test. It is intended to allow homologation tests rather than the individual control of all watches of a production of a production batch. It is based on the simulation of the shock received by a watch on falling accidentally from a height of 1 m on to a horizontal hardwood surface.

In practice shock resistance is generally tested by applying two shocks (one on the 9 o'clock side, and one to the crystal and perpendicular to the face). The shock is usually delivered by a hard plastic hammer mounted as a pendulum, so as to deliver a measured amount of energy, specifically, a 3 kg hammer with an impact velocity of 4.43 m/s. The watch must keep its accuracy to +/- 60 seconds/day as measured before the test.

Chronometer - Watches

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Chronometer watch is a watch tested and certified to meet certain precision standards. In Switzerland, only timepieces certified by the COSC may use the word 'Chronometer' on them.
However, numerous prominent Swiss watch manufacturers do not submit their movements for COSC certification, although such movements would probably easily qualify as chronometers under the COSC certification rules, e.g. nowadays, some of the ″Haute Horlogerie″ Swiss Watch Manufacturers have created on 5 June 2001, ″The Fleurier Quality Foundation″ to establish new aesthetic and technical criteria dedicated to the certification of finished watches. Their certification meets a normative requirement for the market and the final customer to have a better definition of quality watchmaking, adapted to today's demands and technological advances.

The term chronometer is also used to describe a marine chronometer used for celestial navigation. The marine chronometer was invented by John Harrison in 1730. This was the first of a series of chronometers which enabled accurate marine navigation. For the next 250 years, an accurate chronometer was essential to any kind of marine or air navigation until the implementation of global satellite navigation at the end of the 20th century. The marine chronometer is no longer used for navigation.

Chronometers often included other innovations to increase their efficiency and precision. Hard stones such as diamond, ruby, and sapphire were often used as jewel bearings to decrease friction and wear of the pivots and escapement. Chronometer makers also took advantage of the physical properties of rare metals such as gold, platinum, and palladium.
Complications
In horology terms, a complication in a mechanical watch is a special feature that causes the design of the watch movement to become more complicated. Examples of complications include:
* Tourbillon
* Perpetual Calendar
* Minute repeater
* Equation of time
* Power reserve
* Moon phases

Vostok

Rugged watches, military Watch, the Amphibia army watch - diver watches
Vostok ( Восток, East) Watch Makers, Inc. produces mainly inexpensive, rugged military and diver mechanical watches at its factory in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia. It also makes clocks and watch movements for other watch brands.
The Vostok Company was founded in 1942 when one of the Moscow watch-making plants of the First Moscow Watch Factory was evacuated to Chistopol, a small town located on the Kama River in Tatarstan. Only defense equipment was produced during the war years, but as soon as the war was over the company started making mechanical wrist watches. However, the Company did not begin using the "Vostok" brand name until the 1960s. The company was appointed an official supplier of watches for the Defense Department of the Soviet Union in 1965. This year also marks the creation of the well known Komandirskie ("Commander's") watch.

The experience gained through development of the army watch led to the Amphibia, a stainless-steel watch able to withstand a 200 meter depth (20atm). By 1980, Vostok Watch Makers was producing 4.5 million timepieces per year.

Watches issued to the military were marked "ЗАКАЗ МО СССР," meaning "By Order of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR." These models were subject to rigorous quality control and sold exclusively through Voentorg stores, which catered to military personnel with identification only. (Today, these models have become sought-after collectibles.)

At turn of the 21st century, Vostok launched a line of 1940s-style replicas called the Kirovskie K-43 collection. Vostok also began producing a "luxury" line of watches called Kremlevskie. Both lines are made of stainless steel, produced in limited quantities, and aimed toward a more affluent consumer.

In 2004, Vostok Watch Makers began supplying movements to the Koliz Company of Lithuania, makers of the Vostok Europe brand of timepieces.
2000, Vostok Watch Makers Inc. is the leader of the domestic watch and clock industry on volumes of release and sales of men's watches. Release of the female watches, an expensive, prestigious man's watch, and a quartz alarm clock are begun.
2001, The factory became the owner of "The Russian National Olympus” the prestigious premium in a nomination "To Technology. A science" and the winner of "The Russian organization of high social efficiency" competition in a branch nomination.
2004, The company "Koliz Vostok Co. Ltd" was founded as a joint venture between the Russian movement- and watch-maker "Vostok Watch Maker Inc." and the Lithuanian enterprise "Koliz Ltd." offers the world market a new generation of automatic watches based on the traditional Russian watch-making technology and new designs from Lithuania. The first collection of the new watch brand Vostok Europe was introduced at Basel, Switzerland.
2006, "Amfibia" brand, featuring modern-style diver watches, launched.
2007, Updated Komandirskie debuts to public.