1981

• Jean-Claude Biver and Jacques Piguet buy the brand name Blancpain from the SSIH for about 18,000 Swiss Francs ¹⁾ and about two years later launch newly developed luxury watches with mechanical movements by Frederic Piguet.
• ETA adds the Grenchen movement manufacture along with FHF, EEM, SEFEA, and Durowe.

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