1980

• The Italian Carlo Crocco founds the watch manufacturer MDM Genève, which is later renamed to Hublot, accoding to the best known model of the brand.
• At the climax of the quartz crisis, the creditor banks of the SSIH mandate the marketing specialist Nicolas Hayek to restructure the group.
• Hellmut Wempe dares, with the opening of a Wempe branch in New York's Fifth Avenue, the big step up to the international stage.
• ETA introduces the Delirium IV, which measures just 0.96 mm thick.

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