====== Bifora ======
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**Bifora** is a German watch manufacturer.

==== The foundation in 1900 ====
The watch factory Bifora was founded in [[1900]]. Company founder Josef Bidlingmaier succeeded to establish the company as an assured player on the watch market with the quality characteristic "Made in Germany". As the first German watch manufacturer Bifora was able to produce their own watch movement in series already in [[1928]]. One took also a leading position when in [[1951]] the first German [[automatic movement]] could be presented. A few years later the model "Unima" was launched, which was also available as a [[chronometer]] and is coveted today by many collectors and connoisseurs.

In the heyday of the company, between [[1960]] and early 1970s, Bifora produced watches in Schwäbisch Gmünd with more than 1,000 employees. Thus Bifora was the largest German watch factory at that time.

With the emergence of the [[quartz crisis|quartz era]] Bifora could not withstand the low-wage competition from Asia. The short-term relocation of production to India could not save the company.

==== The revival of the brand in 2014 ====
Guided by the idea to bring the brand Bifora back to life, at the beginning of [[2011]] a small team started the implementation. The Bifora Uhren-Manufaktur GmbH specially established for this purpose intend to revive the tradition and to produce high-quality mechanical watches facing today's requirements.

In November [[2014]] the [[Bifora JB-60|JB-60]] as the first Bifora watch for 30 years was presented.

===== Address =====
Bifora Uhren-Manufaktur GmbH\\ Office Göppingen\\ Boller Straße 37\\ 

73035 Göppingen

Telefon: +49 7161 8080108\\ Telefax: +49 7161 8080107\\ info@bifora.eu

===== Weblinks =====
  * [[http://www.bifora.eu/|Bifora]], official site
  * [[http://www.bifora-ev.de/|Bifora Friends]] (German)


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