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Undulata * Iconic Watch Prize: text/html 2024-12-03T10:52:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:start_gphg_2024 GPHG 2024 Winners at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève 2024: * IWC won the prestigious Aiguille d'Or with the Portugieser Eternal Calendar. * The “Petite Aiguille” Prize was won by Kudoke with the 3 Salmon. * Otsuka Lotec received the Challenge Watch Prize for the No.6. * Artistic Crafts Watch Prize: Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels Jour Enchanté * Iconic Watch Prize: text/html 2026-06-09T13:24:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:start_info New/modified articles * 9.6.2026: Chronoswiss * 8.6.2026: Bianchet * 5.6.2026: Cartier Santos-Dumont • Bulgari Octo Finissimo 37 * 3.6.2026: Nomos Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer * 28.5.2026: Parmigiani Tonda PF Chronographe Mysterieux • Rolex Land-Dweller • Behrens • March LA.B • Sandblasted • Nomos Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer • Deutsche Uhrenwerke Nomos Glashütte • Armin Strom • Ferdinand Berthoud * 16.5.2026: A. Lange & Söhne Cabaret Tourbillon Honeygold * 28.4.2026: Unimatic… text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:start_interesting_models Remarkable Models Automatic * Sinn 657 Top quality at a still unbeaten price/performance ratio * Temption CM-03 - Temption CM-06 Consistent and courageous realization of an independent and credible product philosophy * Bell & Ross BR 02 Pink Gold Synthesis of instrument watch and style Hand winding * text/html 2023-11-16T16:09:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:start_new_models GPHG 2023 Winners at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève 2023: * Again Audemars Piguet won the prestigious Aiguille d'Or, this time with the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Ultra-Complication Universelle RD#4. * The “Petite Aiguille” Prize was won by Christopher Ward with the C1 Bel Canto. * Raymond Weil received the Challenge Watch Prize for the Millésime automatic small seconds. * Artistic Crafts Watch Prize: Piaget Altiplano Métiers d'Art - Undulata * Iconic Watch Prize: text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:start_news Wiki News * 25.10.2021: Due to an oversight, numerous overlays on the portal pages such as Watch Brand/ Watch Model/ Encyclopedia Article of the Week, The Most Important Watch Brands, Watch Classics, The Movement and Watch Knowledge have not been visible to non-logged-in visitors. This is fixed as of now. text/html 2023-11-18T15:08:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:start_notable_entries Notable Entries * Patek Philippe calibres * Grand Seiko * Leonidas * Industry consolidation * Jaeger-LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica * IWC Ingenieur, IWC Ingenieur SL * Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève * Ferrari * Railway watch * ETA calibres * Omega calibres * IWC calibres * Rolex calibres * Patek Philippe Advanced Research * A. Lange & Söhne calibres * Paul Buhré * Movado Group * LCD * Beta 21 * Junghans text/html 2022-11-30T07:00:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:start_top10 Top 10: Most Popular Watch Brands and Models Top 10 Brands * TAG Heuer * A. Lange & Söhne * Breitling * IWC * Jaeger-LeCoultre * Zenith * Rolex * Chronoswiss * Omega * Nomos Top 10 Models * Breitling Navitimer * Audemars Piguet Royal Oak * A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 * Omega Speedmaster Professional * Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Submariner * Longines Lindbergh * TAG Heuer Carrera * Breitling Superocean * Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Sea-Dweller 4000 * Au… text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0101 * 1823 --- German watchmaker Erhard Junghans is born. * 1893 --- Uhrenfabrik Union is established in Glashütte, Germany by Johannes Dürrstein, Dresden distributor of A. Lange & Söhne watches. It is the predecessor of today's Union Glashütte brand. * 1964 --- Heuer and Leonidas merge to form Heuer-Leonidas. * 1991 --- The Glashütte watch brand Nomos is registered by Roland Schwertner of Düsseldorf. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0102 * 1927 --- Fritz Edouard Roskopf, son of Georg Friedrich Roskopf, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0103 * 1957 --- Hamilton releases the Hamilton Electric, narrowly beating LIP/Elgin in releasing the world's first electric watch. * 2000 --- André Heiniger, responsible for the development of Rolex from 1963 after the death of Hans Wilsdorf to his retirement in 1997, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0104 * 2009 --- Gerry Grinberg, noted watch seller and distributor, dies. He build Piaget into a leading luxury brand, lead the success of Corum, and drove the Swiss to innovate in quartz watches. His push to respond to the Japanese spurred Ebauches SA to develop the ultra-thin Delirium, which Grinberg distributed in the United States through his text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0105 * 1894 --- French watchmaker Jean-Adrien Philippe, co-founder and namesake of Patek Philippe, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0106 * 1825 --- Breguet sells watch no. 4009, the forerunner of the chronograph, this so-called “double-seconds observation chronograph” features two pushers to start and stop timing. * 1969 --- Hamilton announces that it will stop production of watches in the Lancaster factory it had used since the company was founded in text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0107 * 2010 --- Excellence Holding acquires PMH, owners of Vulcain since 2001. * 2016 --- H. Moser & Cie. announces the Swiss Alp Watch, which resembles the recently-introduced Apple Watch. * 2021 --- After a series of lawsuits and negotiations lasting over a year, LVMH completes its acquisition of Tiffany & Co. for €14.7 billion. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0108 * 2019 --- Omega announces the reintroduction of the classic Cal. 321 hand-winding chronograph movement text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0109 * 1729 --- Watchmaker Abraham-Louis Perrelet, inventor of automatic winding, is born. * 2020 --- H. Moser & Cie. introduces its first sports watch, the steel Streamliner Flyback Chronograph Automatic. It would win the Chronograph Watch Prize at the GPHG in November. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0110 * 1747 --- Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet is born in Neuchatel. He is credited for many innovations, including improving automatic winding, free-sprung escapement, shock protection, and the so-called Breguet hairspring. His son founded the eponymous Breguet company. * 1969 --- Zenith introduces the El Primero, the first high-beat automatic chronograph. * 2012 --- Fossil Group acquires Skagen text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0111 * 2013 --- Girard-Perregaux introduces the 1966 Minute Repeater, Annual Calendar & Equation of Time watch, adding a minute repeater to their existing calendar complication model * 2018 --- Ressence announces the Type 2 c-Crown Concept, a preview of the upcoming Type 2 watch with a thinner movement and electro-mechanical adjustment via Bluetooth. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0112 * 2017 --- H. Moser & Cie. presents the Swiss Mad Watch with a case molded on Swiss cheese. * 2019 --- Audemars Piguet launches the controversial Code 11.59 watch line, a daring new direction for the brand. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0113 * 2015 --- Girard-Perregaux CEO Antonio Calce is appointed CEO of Sowind Group * 2019 --- Ulysse Nardin introduces the Freak X, a smaller and less-expensive version of the famous Freak watch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0114 * 2013 --- Swatch Group announces the acquisition of Harry Winston. * 2019 --- H. Moser & Cie. shocks the watch world with the Swiss Alp Watch Concept Black, a tourbillon minute repeater with no hands or markings on the dial in a case resembling an Apple Watch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0115 * 2001 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to George Daniels, Rolf Schnyder, and Catherine Cardinal * 2018 --- Girard-Perregaux launches the Laureato Chronograph two years after introducing the wider Laureato line * 2018 --- Piaget introduces the Altiplano Ultimate Concept at SIHH, the world's thinnest mechanical watch * 2019 --- Vacheron Constantin introduces the Overseas Tourbillon, the first automatic tourbillon in the Overseas line text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0116 * 2012 --- TAG Heuer reveals the TAG Heuer Mikrogirder, a 1,000 Hz chronograph accurate to 5/10,000th of a second * 2017 --- Girard-Perregaux re-launches the Laureato collection at SIHH text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0117 * 1924 --- The Fédération Horlogère Suisse (FH) is founded * 2011 --- Urwerk shows the “radically simple” UR-110 to the press in Geneva. It would win the Design Watch Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève in November. * 2017 --- Walter Lange dies. He was great grandson of A. Lange & Söhne founder Ferdinand Adolph Lange and re-established his family's firm in 1990. * 2018 --- Parmigiani Fleurier revises the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0118 * 2013 --- Omega announces the creation of “the first truly anti-magnetic watch movement” - Cal. 8508 is resistant up to 15,000 gauss * 2016 --- Parmigiani Fleurier introduces their first in-house integrated chronograph movement, Cal. PF361, at SIHH inside the Tonda Chronor Anniversaire text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0119 * 1933 --- Patek Philippe delivers the famous "Supercomplication" to Henry Graves. It is legendary as the most complicated and expensive watch in the world for most of the century. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0120 * 2010 --- Nicolas Hayek announces the Breguet Tradition Tourbillon Fusée with a silicon balance spring. * 2015 --- Vacheron Constantin introduces the ultra-thin grande complication chronograph Cal. 3500 in the Harmony Ultra-Thin Grande Complication Chronograph. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0121 * 2013 --- A. Lange & Söhne introduces the 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar at SIHH; it would win both the Grande Complication Prize and Public Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève later that year * 2013 --- Omega announces Cal. 8508, the first watch movement anti-magnetic to 1.5 Tesla (15,000 gauss). text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0122 * 2016 --- Parmigiani Fleurier reveals the Senfine movement, with silicon components including a silicon oscillating regulator * 2018 --- Audemars Piguet wows the crowd at SIHH with an ultra-thin perpetual calendar prototype, the forerunner of the Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin a year later. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0123 * 1885 --- Glashütte watch pioneer Moritz Großmann dies. He helped establish watchmaking in Saxony and founded the German Watchmaker School Glashütte. * 1960 --- The Bathyscaphe Trieste descends 10,916 meters to the bottom of the Challenger Deep with a specially-constructed Rolex Deep-Sea Special attached to the outside. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0124 * 2018 --- MB&F and Sarpaneva present the MoonMachine 2, with a prism showing the moon phase and time at the edge of the watch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0125 * 2017 --- Bulgari introduces the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Skeleton, an open-worked version of the world's thinnest tourbillon movement. * 2019 --- A. Lange & Söhne adds a date complication to the Zeitwerk Since the hours and minutes are shown in windows, the Zeitwerk Date uses a date disc around the edge of the dial. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0126 * 1953 --- Rolex receives a trademark on the name, Explorer, the watch “designed to conquer the world”. * 1986 --- Hans Homberger, who presided over IWC through its acquisition by VDO Automotive, dies. * 2014 --- Watchmaker Raymond Weil, founder of his eponymous brand in 1976, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0127 * 2015 --- DeWitt introduces the Academia Grand Tourbillon with jumping hours display. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0128 * 2003 --- Richemont announces that it has acquired all remaining shares of Van Cleef & Arpels. * 2008 --- Longines manufactures its 34 millionth watch. * 2015 --- Greubel Forsey introduces the Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision, which would go on to win the Aiguille d'Or at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève that year. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0129 * 2018 --- Baume & Mercier introduces the Clifton Baumatic, featuring the brand's new in-house “Baumatic” self-winding movement with a “Twinspir” silicon hairspring. A lawsuit over the technology, patented by CSEM, quickly followed, with the technology withdrawn a year later. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0130 * 1920 --- German watch entrepreneur Arthur Junghans dies. * 1960 --- The CEH is formed to investigate electric and electronic watches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0131 * 2013 --- Piaget unveils the ultra-thin Emperador Coussin Automatic Minute Repeater * 2018 --- Bucherer announces that it is acquiring Tourneau, the largest luxury watch retailer in the United States. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0201 * 1875 --- Ariste Calame is born. He is instrumental in the growth of watchmaking in Le Locle, founding the Zodiac brand and serving on the Fédération Horlogère. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0202 * 1987 --- Andy Warhol shows his final painting, an image of a Rado DiaStar Anatom watch * 2018 --- Bulgari introduces the Diva Finissima Minute Repeater, the thinnest minute repeater in a women's watch text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0203 * 1983 --- The New York Times announces that historic brand Movado has been acquired by North American Watch Company, which would be renamed Movado Group in 1996. * 2021 --- H. Moser & Cie. releases the “final upgrade” of their Swiss Alp Watch, with a Vantablack dial and “activity indicator” seconds subdial. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0204 * 1935 --- Swiss watch designer Ruedi Külling, founder of Xemex, is born. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0205 * 1971 --- Management of the SSIH and ESTH officially merge, further consolidating the Swiss watch industry. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0209 * 2006 --- Henry-John Belmont retires from Richemont, where he served as Director of Haute Horlogerie, overseeing Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC, and A. Lange & Söhne. * 2016 --- Vulcain introduces Cal. V-40, the first redesign of the classic Cricket movement since its debut in the 1950s. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0210 * 1952 --- Watchmaker and inventor Ludwig Oechslin is born in Italy. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0211 * Annually --- Maximum deviation between mean time and solar time of plus 14 minutes 22 seconds text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0213 * 1926 --- Wüllimann Schneider Nivada S.A. is registered in Grenchen, marking the origin of the Nivada Grenchen brand text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0215 * 1968 --- The CEH decides to jointly produce a quartz wrist watch movement, known as Beta 21. It would go on sale in 1970. * 2018 --- TAG Heuer introduces the Carrera Heuer 02 Manufacture, the production version of a movement introduced five years earlier as Cal. 1969 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0217 * 1926 --- Veuve de Philippe Hüther founds “The Tudor” brand on behalf of Hans Wilsdorf of Rolex. It would be another 20 years before the first Tudor watch is produced. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0218 * 1815 --- Glashütte watchmaker Ferdinand Adolph Lange is born. He founds the firm A. Lange & Söhne in 1845. * 1971 --- General Watch is set up as a holding company under ASUAG, with Certina/Kurth, Edox/Era, Eterna, Mido/Schaeren, Oris, Rado/Schlup, and Technos/Gunzinger. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0219 * 1928 --- Swatch Group founder Nicolas G. Hayek is born in Beirut, Lebanon. A business consultant, he is responsible for the growth of the Swatch Group, the dominance of ETA movements, and many of the industry developments in recent decades. * 1998 --- SMH is renamed Swatch Group as Nicholas Hayek, Jr. is promoted to chairman. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0220 * 1962 --- American astronaut John Glenn proclaims “the clock is running” as he starts a Heuer stopwatch on board the Mercury space capsule, Friendship 7. This marks the first use of a Swiss watch in space. * 2012 --- Swatch Group announces a dramatic new campus for Swatch and text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0223 * 1945 --- A single bombing run destroys 86% of the factories in Pforzheim, destroying much of the German watch industry. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0226 * 2000 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to René Bannwart, Simone Bédat, and Kathleen Pritschard * 2012 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to Eric Coudray, Franco Cologni, and Francesco Garufo text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0227 * 2014 --- Jacob & Co. introduce the Epic X, an unusual titanium skeletonized watch text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0228 * 1889 --- Albert Bertholet receives patent 123.576 for a montre bracelet simplifée, the earliest known wristwatch patent text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0301 * 1983 --- Ebauches SA launches the Swatch, which will fund the Swatch Group and revitalize the Swiss watch market. * 1994 --- Hans-Jürgen Mühle regains control of Mühle. * 2100 --- Most perpetual calendars will need to be adjusted since it is not a leap year. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0303 * 1969 --- Breitling, Heuer-Leonidas, and Hamilton/Büren present the Chronomatic automatic chronograph in Geneva, New York, Hong Kong, and Beirut. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0304 * 1931 --- Engineer Alfred Chauvot submits a patent for a watch “able to pivot on itself by sliding into its support,” the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. * 2013 --- Rolex CEO Patrick Heiniger, son of long-time CEO André Heiniger, dies at age 62. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0305 * 2011 --- The Board of Directors for Bulgari agrees to sell the 127 year old fashion company to LVMH. * 2012 --- Citizen Holdings of Japan announces the acquisition of Swiss company Prothor, owner of movement specialist La Joux-Perret and the Arnold & Son brand. text/html 2023-03-06T07:37:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0306 * 1946 --- Rolex launches the lower-priced Tudor brand. * 2019 --- Ulysse Nardin unveils the Freak neXt concept in London, featuring a flying silicon blade oscillator text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0308 * 2016 --- Jacob & Co. introduce the Astronomia Sky, a remarkable triple-axis tourbillon with a three-dimensional sidereal time display text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0309 * 2016 --- Jacob & Co. unveils the Twin Turbo, which features twin triple-axis tourbillons and a minute repeater complication text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0310 * 1943 --- Corporal Clive James Nutting, one of the organizers of The Great Escape, orders a Rolex Oyster Chronograph for delivery to Stalag Luft III, where he was a prisoner of war. The company sends the watch free of charge. * 2011 --- Swatch Group signs an agreement with Liquidmetal Technologies, giving the group exclusive rights to use the material in watchmaking. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0311 * 1693 --- Jehan-Jacques Blancpain is born. He founded Blancpain, which remained in the family until 1932, became part of SSIH in 1961, and was re-started in 1981 by Jean-Claude Biver and Jacques Piguet. * 2003 --- The Prix Gaïa award is given to Antony G. Randall * 2004 --- The Prix Gaïa award is given to André Beyner text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0315 * 1813 --- German watchmaker Georg Friedrich Roskopf, inventor of the Roskopf escapement, is born. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0316 * 1966 --- American astronauts Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott aboard Gemini VIII successfully dock with the unmanned Agena spacecraft, the first such rendezvous in space. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0317 * 2016 --- Bulgari debuts the ultra-thin Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater at Baselworld * 2016 --- Seiko unveils their first-ever tourbillon movement. Cal. 6830 is based on the classic ultra-thin Cal. 6800 and is housed in an elaborately-decorated Credor Fugaku Tourbillon Limited Edition, shown at Baselworld. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0318 * 1919 --- Baume & Mercier is legally established in Geneva. * 2010 --- Rolex shows the Submariner Ref. 116610 at BaselWorld. * 2010 --- Seiko announces that the Grand Seiko brand will be launched internationally, 50 years after the original launch in Japan. * 2015 --- TAG Heuer released the Carrera Calibre Heuer 01, officially re-branding their Cal. 1887 as Cal. Heuer 01. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0319 * 2010 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to Jacques Mueller and Elmar Mock and Jean-Claude Biver * 2015 --- At Baselworld, TAG Heuer, Google, and Intel announce a partnership to create a Swiss smartwatch * 2019 --- Jacob & Co. announce their partnership with Bugatti, which had long partnered with Parmigiani Fleurier text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0320 * 2019 --- Greubel Forsey introduces the GMT Quadruple Tourbillon, combining two important inventions in one watch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0321 * 1943 --- Günter Blümlein is born in Nuremberg. He began working at Junghans before joining VDO Automotive to lead IWC and Jaeger-LeCoultre and the resurgence of Swiss watchmaking in the 1980s and 1990s. * 2019 --- The final Baselworld event opens. It would be cancelled in 2020 and re-launched as HourUniverse in 2021. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0322 * 1881 --- German businessman Hans Wilsdorf, founder of Rolex, is born. * 1910 --- The first Rolex wristwatch to receive a chronometer certificate is recognized by the Swiss government. * 2005 --- Franck Muller acquires “a very slight majority” of Rodolphe. * 2017 --- Bulgari introduces the Octo Finissimo Automatic, the world's thinnest automatic watch text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0323 * 2017 --- Omega launches a series of limited-edition 60th anniversary Railmaster, Seamaster, and Speedmaster models at Baselworld * 2017 --- Patek Philippe celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Aquanaut with the release of a new 42.2 mm "Jumbo" model, Ref. 5168 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0324 * 1693 --- English watchmaker John Harrison is born. He was the first to build a successful marine chronometer. * 1776 --- English watchmaker John Harrison dies. * 1960 --- Bulova and Citizen announce a joint marketing pact that pushes Bulova watches in Japan and re-branded low-cost Citizen watches in the United States. Citizen would purchase Bulova in text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0325 * 1998 --- Richemont completes the acquisition of minority shareholders' stake in Vendôme text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0326 * 1772 --- Swiss watchmaker and dealer Jean-Francois Bautte is born in Geneva. * 2009 --- Grand Seiko introduces their first modern Hi-Beat movement, Cal. 9S85, at Baselworld. * 2012 --- Deepsea Challenger descends 10,908 meters to the bottom of the Challenger Deep with a specially-constructed Rolex Deepsea attached to the robot arm. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0327 * 1826 --- Glashütte watch pioneer Moritz Großmann is born in Dresden. He helps establish watchmaking in Saxony and founds the German Watchmaker School Glashütte. * 1893 --- Ernest Francillon & Co. of Saint-Imier register the name Longines internationally, making it the oldest watch brand. * 2004 --- The merger of Rolex Geneva and Rolex Biel is completed. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0328 * 1851 --- Jules-Louis Audemars, founder of Audemars Piguet is born in Le Brassus. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0329 * 2014 --- Bulgari debuts the Octo Finissimo line at Baselworld - the company would set records for ultra-thin watches nearly every year afterward text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0330 * 2006 --- The industry is surprised by the introduction of the Harry Winston Opus 6 at BaselWorld; Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey developed the novel inclined tourbillon in just six months. * 2006 --- Seiko sets their sights on haute horology, introducing the Credor Spring Drive Sonnerie at Baselworld. * 2017 --- The first stone is laid for the radical new Audemars Piguet museum in text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0331 * 2009 --- Tiffany Watch debuts at BaselWorld, a joint venture between the famous jeweller and Swatch Group. * 2005 --- Patek Philippe introduces the first complicated Nautilus model, the Nautilus Moon Phase, Ref. 3712. It would be produced for only one year and become one of the most desirable Nautilus models. * 2005 --- Seiko reveals their revolutionary Spring Drive technology in a special stand at text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0401 * 1945 --- The IWC factory in Schaffhausen barely escapes destruction as an American bomb is dropped on the building next door text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0402 * 2006 --- Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils the Reverso grande complication à triptyque at the SIHH press conference; it would win the Special Jury Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève in 2007 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0403 * 2003 --- Rolex introduces the 50th anniversary Submariner, the 16610LV “Kermit”, which also featured the first “Maxi dial” text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0404 * 1992 --- Philippe Dufour shows his first wristwatch, the remarkable Grande et Petite Sonnerie Minute Repeater * 2005 --- Audemars Piguet brings a manufacture movement, Cal. 3120, to the Royal Oak for the first time in the new Ref. 15300 model, which debuted at SIHH. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0405 * 1967 --- Economic Swiss Time Holding is established as a holding company for Swiss producers of cheap Roskopf movements * 2012 --- F. A. Porsche, founder and designer for Porsche Design, dies text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0406 * 1995 --- The third round of Prix Gaïa awards are given to Michel Parmigiani, Antoine Simonin, and Ludwig Oechslin * 1996 --- The fourth round of Prix Gaïa awards are given to Vincent Calabrese, Günter Blümlein, and Jean-Luc Mayaud * 1997 --- The fifth round of Prix Gaïa awards are given to Richard Daners, Jean-Pierre Musy, and Jean-Claude Sabrier text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0407 * 1973 --- The first independent Basel Watch Fair opens. It had been part of the wider Swiss Industries Fair for over 50 years. * 1992 --- The 100 millionth Swatch is produced, just 8 years, one month, and six days after introduction. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0408 * 1992 --- The second SIHH show in Geneva opens, focused primarily on Vendôme brands. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0409 * 2014 --- Glashütte Original introduces the Senator Chronograph Panorama Date. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0410 * 1970 --- The production Beta 21 quartz movement is revealed to the world, along with 20 production models from various Swiss watch companies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0411 * 1970 --- At a press conference at the Basel Fair, Bulova introduces the Beta 21 “Accuquartz”. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0412 * 1958 --- Universal Geneve shows the Microtor at the Basel Fair, the first micro-rotor automatic winding movement. * 1989 --- The AHCI appears for the first time at BASEL 89. * 1997 --- Gérald Piaget, who founded the modern Piaget brand, dies at age 79. * 2007 --- Patek Philippe replaces the original 38 mm Aquanaut with the 40 mm Ref. 5167 at Baselworld * 2007 --- Seiko introduces the first Spring Drive chronograph at Baselworld. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0413 * 1971 --- Tissot shows the Astrolon, a highly mechanized plastic watch movement, and Omega demonstrates their first LCD chronograph concept. * 2002 --- A Patek Philippe Ref. 1415 World Time in platinum is sold at an Antiquorum Auction for US$4 million, the most expensive auction sale to date. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0414 * 1629 --- Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens is born. He built the first pendulum clocks and pioneered pocket watches. * 1889 --- German watchmaker Georg Friedrich Roskopf, inventor of the Roskopf escapement, dies. * 1956 --- Rolex shows the first Day-Date at the Basel Fair. * 1988 --- Automatic quartz technology is unveiled at Baselworld by both Seiko and Jean d'Eve. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0415 * Annually --- Mean time and solar time match * 1861 --- Junghans is founded * 1961 --- Bulova previews the Accutron at the Basel Fair. * 1972 --- The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak debuts at the Swiss Watch Fair. * 1991 --- The first-ever SIHH show opens in Geneva. * 1996 --- North American Watch changes their name to Movado Group, which then included the brands, Concord, Movado, and Esquire/ESQ and American distribution of Piaget and text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0416 * 1955 --- Universal Geneve shows the Polarouter at the Basel Fair, which becomes the famous Polerouter. * 1966 --- Girard-Perregaux shows the first 36,000 A/h movement at the Basel Fair. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0417 * 1970 --- Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell, John Swiger, and Fred Haise land in the Pacific Ocean. Their Omega Speedmaster Professional watches played a key role timing the burn that saved the craft. * 1986 --- Japanese companies, including Seiko and Citizen, exhibit at BASEL 86, the first time they are allowed at the prestigious Swiss fair. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0418 * 1996 --- Philippe Dufour debuts his first “production” watch (one of only three to date), the Duality, which features dual escapements. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0419 * 1891 --- A head-on collision of two trains near Kipton, Ohio demonstrates the need for synchronized railroad time. * 1990 --- Zenith celebrates the resurgence of complicated mechanical watches with their 125th anniversary collection, introduced at BASEL 90. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0420 * 1996 --- A Patek Philippe Calatrava Minute Repeater is sold at an Antiquorum Auction for US$1.7 million, setting a record for the most expensive auction sale at that time. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0421 * 1741 --- Daniel JeanRichard dies at the age of 76. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0422 * 1999 --- SIHH 1999 opens, featuring many more brands than previous shows, and becoming a true rival to the Basel Fair. Audemars Piguet, Breguet, and Girard-Perregaux are the main defectors, along with five smaller brands. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0423 * 1892 --- Léon Breitling arrives in La Chaux-de-Fonds, setting up Breitling in a factory that will become known as the Montbrillant Watch Manufactory. * 1960 --- Rolex shows the updated Day-Date “President” at the Basel Fair. * 2012 --- Richemont announces the creation of a watchmaking campus in Geneva, the Campus Genevois de Haute Horlogerie. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0424 * 1965 --- Piaget shows their version of Cal. 2003 at the Basel Fair. * 2008 --- Hublot is acquired by LVMH. * 2013 --- China Haidan announces the acquisition of Corum on the eve of Baselworld. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0425 * 2000 --- Swatch Group announces the acquisition of Jaquet-Droz * 2013 --- Swatch launches the Sistem51, a novel automatic watch that celebrates the quartz original. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0426 * 1881 --- Swiss watchmaker Charles Antoine LeCoultre dies * 1988 --- Cartier acquires Piaget and Baume & Mercier, replacing Rolex as the top producer of luxury watches. This would form the basis for the Vendôme group and today's Richemont. * 2006 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to Luigi Pippa and John H. Leopold * 2011 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to François Junod, Philippe Stern, and Pierre-Yves Donzé text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0427 * 1957 --- Breitling introduces the Superocean at the Swiss Industries Fair in Basel * 1957 --- Piaget introduces Cal. 9P, the thinnest watch movement to date and the foundation for the groundbreaking Altiplano series * 1961 --- A Bulova Accutron timer is used as part of the control system for the Explorer XI space mission text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0428 * 1980 --- Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Quartz is introduced at the Basel Fair text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0429 * 1999 --- Patek Philippe debuts the ladies Twenty~4 line at BASEL 99, which started on this date. Then part of the Gondolo range, the Twenty~4 would become one of the brand's most successful modern launches. * 2017 --- Parmigiani Fleurier launches an all-new version of the Toric Chronomètre, the timepiece that launched the brand 20 years earlier. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0430 * 1892 --- Swiss watchmaker Edouard Heuer dies. He founded Heuer, was the first to mass produce chronograph watches, and invented the oscillating pinion. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0501 * 1839 --- Patek, Czapek & Co. (now Patek Philippe) is founded in Geneva. * 1931 --- Gérald Charles Genta is born in Geneva. He created the luxury steel sports watch, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, and the Patek Philippe Nautilus in the 1970s and founded two eponymous companies, Gerald Genta and Gerald Charles. * 2020 --- Ming Watch introduces the Ming 27 line text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0502 * 2013 --- As BaselWorld 2013 closes, visitors can't stop talking about the new Rolex Yacht-Master II in steel and "Batman" GMT-Master II. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0503 * 1887 --- Swiss watchmaker Edouard Heuer receives a French patent for the oscillating pinion, a fundamental design element in chronograph watches. * 2011 --- Gian Riccardo Marini is appointed CEO of Rolex. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0504 * 1965 --- Thin watches and sports models dominate the Swiss Watch Fair in Basel, with Baume & Mercier, Büren, and Universal Geneve challenging Piaget with new ultra-thin models while Nivada and Mido show off new diver's watches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0505 * 1878 --- German entrepreneur Gerhard D. Wempe opens a watch shop, beginning the construction of the company that would become Wempe. * 1976 --- Workers for Lip in Besançon begin their second occupation of the factory. * 2015 --- Ernest Frédéric Schneider, who purchased Breitling in 1979 and lead the company to its modern success, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0506 * 1963 --- American astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. orbits the earth three times on the mission Mercury-Atlas 9 wearing a Breitling Navitimer, proving that a mechanical watch can function in zero gravity. * 1970 --- Hamilton launches the Pulsar LED watch at a press conference in New York. * text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0507 * 1965 --- Armin Frei proposes using a quartz resonator for a wristwatch to CEH colleague, Rolf Lochinger. This would become Beta 1, the first quartz wristwatch. * 2009 --- A. Lange & Söhne launches the revolutionary Zeitwerk at an event in Berlin. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0508 * 1935 --- American aviator Emilia Earhart flies from Mexico to New York, an event she commemorates with an engraving of the flight route on her Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. * 1945 --- On the last day of World War II in Europe, Russian fighter-bombers destroy the A. Lange & Söhne factory in text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0509 * 1978 --- The Swiss Foundation for Research in Microtechnics (FSRM) is founded in Neuchâtel. * 1994 --- The largest producer of quartz movements in Europe outside Switzerland, France Ebauches is formally reorganized as Societe Nouvelle France Ebauches under China Resources Company after bankruptcy text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0510 * 2010 --- A Patek Philippe Ref. 1527 chronograph is sold at a Christie's Auction for US$5.7 million, the most expensive auction sale to date. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0511 * 2008 --- Sotheby's sells the most expensive wristwatch in its history to that point, a 1932 Patek Philippe chronograph. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0512 * 1987 --- Longines enters the “signature watch” market, launching a line of watches with fashion brand Rodolphe. * 1999 --- Richemont acquires a controlling 60% interest in Van Cleef & Arpels. * 2011 --- Tutima opens a Glashütte factory, becoming a manufacture. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0513 * 2017 --- The most expensive Rolex watch sale ever is completed at Phillips, a 1952 Ref. 6062 "triple date" for US$5 million. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0514 * 1876 --- The Intercantonal Association of Jura Industries is formed, representing watchmaking in French-speaking Switzerland; it would grow to represent the entire industry after 1948. * 1953 --- German watch designer Jörg Hysek is born in East Berlin. He designed many watches in recent decades, notably for Vacheron Constantin, Breguet, and text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0515 * 1937 --- The first Collective Agreement ends strife between watch workers and manufacturers in Neuchâtel. This “temporary” agreement would last over 75 years. * 1961 --- Harry D. Henshel, who lead Bulova for decades, dies at 70. * 1963 --- American astronaut L. Gordon Cooper wears a text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0516 * 1963 --- American astronaut L. Gordon Cooper wears a Bulova Accutron “Astronaut” watch aboard Project Mercury capsule “Faith 7” while orbiting the earth text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0517 * 1966 --- The Agena Target Vehicle for Gemini 9 is destroyed, along with the Bulova Accutron timer onboard. * 2019 --- Glashütte Original introduces the Specializt line, including the SeaQ dive watch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0518 * 1974 --- German watchmaker Alfred Helwig dies. He developed the flying tourbillon, among many other accomplishments. * 1969 --- American astronaut Gene Cernan wears a Mickey Mouse watch while orbiting the moon on Apollo X. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0519 * 1917 --- Georges Favre-Jacot, founder of Zenith, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0520 * 1930 --- Nitella is founded in Tramelan. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0521 * 1927 --- American Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight, using a special Longines watch of his own design for navigation. * 1969 --- Seiko releases the Ref. 6139 Speed Timer for public sale, making it the first automatic chronograph. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0522 * 1854 --- François Constantin, founder of Vacheron Constantin, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0523 * 2008 --- The German Watch Museum in Glashütte opens to the public. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0524 * 1962 --- American astronaut Scott Carpenter wears a Breitling chronograph while orbiting the earth three times in a Mercury spacecraft text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0525 * 1961 --- In his famous address, US President John F. Kennedy sets a goal for the country to go to the moon. This decade-long effort would transform watch design and advertising, especially for Bulova and Omega. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0526 * 1923 --- The first 24 Hours of Le Mans race begins. This would become a key advertising opportunity for many watch companies, notably Rolex. * 1983 --- Details of the merger between ASUAG and SSIH are announced at a press conference, representing a key moment in the consolidation of the Swiss watch industry as the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0527 * 1889 --- Ernest Francillon & Co. of Saint-Imier register the name Longines, one of the top Swiss watch brands today. * 1992 --- The definition of “Swiss Made” is tightened to require 50% of value. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0528 * 2018 --- A 2012 “Rainbow” Rolex Cosmograph Daytona sells for KH$2.125 million at auction (nearly US$300,000), showing demand for such late-model watches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0529 * 1953 --- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Mt. Everest for the first time, with Hillary wearing a Smiths De Luxe watch. Their Rolex watches were left at the base camp. * 1996 --- Michel Parmigiani and Pierre Landolt create the Parmigiani Fleurier brand with a handshake in Lausanne. * 2013 --- Urwerk introduces the first text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0530 * 2010 --- The Christie's auction in Hong Kong is the largest ever in Asia, with a collection of 44 Patek Philippe chronographs fetching over $22 million. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0531 * 2001 --- The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève is founded. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0601 * 1957 --- Casio is founded. * 2009 --- Jean-Frédéric Dufour is named CEO of Zenith, replacing Thierry Nataf. Dufour would move to Rolex five years later. * 2018 --- Richemont acquires Watchfinder text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0602 * 1971 --- A single paragraph on page 61 of the New York Times announces that Zenith Radio Corporation of Chicago has purchased respected Swiss watch company Movado-Zenith-Mondia. The deal would end disastrously just 7 years later. * 2005 --- Michel Parmigiani and the Sandoz Family Foundation announce plans to produce their own text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0603 * 1965 --- American astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 62 times in 4 days aboard the Gemini IV spacecraft * 1971 --- American company Zenith Radio Corporation acquires Movado-Zenith-Mondia, holding company for the unrelated text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0604 * 1960 --- A prototype Bulova Accutron is recovered after being lost by journalist John Budd, who was testing the revolutionary electronic watch. * 1965 --- American astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 62 times in 4 days aboard the Gemini IV spacecraft text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0605 * 1965 --- American astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 62 times in 4 days aboard the Gemini IV spacecraft. * 1970 --- Rolex announces the Quartz Date, Ref. 5100, two months after most other Beta 21 participants announced their quartz watches at the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0606 * 1965 --- American astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 62 times in 4 days aboard the Gemini IV spacecraft * 2017 --- Vacheron Constantin introduces a small 36 mm version of the classic Patrimony model. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0607 * 1945 --- The United States House of Representatives ratifies the Bretton Woods Agreement, setting the dollar at the center of world trade and establishing an artificially-low value for the Swiss Franc, leading to post-war domination of the watch industry by the Swiss. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0608 * 2000 --- Richemont and Audemars Piguet announce that they have agreed to work together to facilitate the sale of LMH to Richemont. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0609 * 1992 --- Jean-Claude Nicolet, André Margot, and Henry Louis Belmont receive the inaugural Prix Gaïa awards. * 2000 --- Shareholders of Universo, the largest producer of watch hands in the world, agree to sell the company to Swatch Group. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0610 * 1920 --- Japan establishes “Time Day” to remind citizens to use time wisely. * 1969 --- The United States Time Corporation receives patent 3,448,575, the first for a solar-powered wristwatch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0612 * 1973 --- Workers at the Lip factory in Besançon discover plans to downsize, take two administrators hostage, and begin a takeover. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0613 * 1959 --- Piaget begins selling branded watches in their new Geneva boutique. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0614 * Annually --- Mean time and solar time match * 1946 --- IWC patents their first automatic movement under the direction of Albert Pellaton text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0615 * Annually --- Mean time and solar time match * 2020 --- Omega introduces the anti-magnetic Cal. 2640 in the De Ville Tourbillon text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0616 * 1785 --- Saxony watch pioneer Johann Christian Friedric Gutkaes is born. He was the teacher of Ferdinand Adolph Lange and Karl Moritz Großmann. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0617 * 2015 --- Jean-Frédéric Dufour is appointed CEO of Rolex on June 17. He had previously been CEO of Zenith, a job he left in 2014 when he was named to the top job at Rolex. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0618 * 1903 --- Constant Girard-Perregaux, founder of Girard-Perregaux, dies. * 2013 --- PPR Group, owner of Gucci, Girard-Perregaux, and JeanRichard, is officially renamed Kering. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0619 * 1953 --- Max Hetzel applies for the first patent on a tuning fork watch while working for Bulova. This would lead to the development of the Accutron, launched in 1960. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0620 * 1984 --- Avon Products announces that it will sell famed jeweler Tiffany & Co. and its famed New York retail store text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0624 * 1998 --- SMH is officially renamed Swatch Group text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0625 * 2008 --- Severin Wunderman dies. He was responsible for the growth of Gucci watches, for which he held the license for 25 years, as well as the success of Corum in later years. text/html 2023-06-26T09:50:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0626 * 1801 --- Abraham-Louis Breguet receives a patent for his régulateur à tourbilon. * 1982 --- Jack W. Heuer is forced to sell his family's namesake company, Heuer at the height of the quartz crisis. * 2012 --- The Fondation Qualité Fleurier / Fleurier Quality Foundation (FQF) adds “100% Manufactured in Switzerland” to the requirements of the label. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0627 * 1996 --- Günter Blümlein and Henry-John Belmont embed a special Atlantis 2000 Atmos clock in the foundation for a new Jaeger-LeCoultre building in Le Sentier. It is designed to run for 500 years and features a moon phase complication accurate to 2496. * 2000 --- Richemont acquires Stern Group, the famed dial manufacturer in Geneva and La Chaux-de-Fonds. * 2005 --- Hublot releases the first text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0628 * 2010 --- Swatch Group founder Nicolas G. Hayek dies. A business consultant, he is responsible for the growth of the Swatch Group, the dominance of ETA movements, and many of the industry developments in recent decades. * 2007 --- The FH votes to increase the requirement for “Swiss Made” text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0629 * 2007 --- Harry Henshel, last member of the founding Bulova family, dies. * 2007 --- China Haidan announces the acquisition of Swiss brand Eterna from F.A. Porsche Beteiligungen GmbH, including the Porsche Design license. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0630 * Occasionally --- A “leap second” can be added at any time, but the IERS prefers to add one on June 30 or December 31. One is needed about every 20 months. * 1995 --- Dior purchases Benedom from the Baccardi-Martini Group to become part of LVMH. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0701 * 1751 --- French clockmaker Antide Janvier is born. * 1909 --- Universo is founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds, bringing together 15 companies specializing the the manufacture of watch hands. They would grow to be the largest such company in the world. * 1941 --- Bulova runs the first-ever television commercial. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0702 * 1908 --- The Rolex trademark name is introduced. * 2014 --- Christopher Ward merges with Synergies Horlogères to become Christopher Ward Holdings, a new Swiss manufacture. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0704 * 2011 --- Luxury group Kering acquires Sowind Group, owner of Girard-Perregaux and JeanRichard. * 2017 --- Crowdfunded watch startup Klokers announces that it is bankrupt after their case supplier fails to meet quality requirements. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0705 * 1879 --- Louis Brandt, founder of the company that became Omega, dies in La Chaux-de-Fonds. * 1886 --- German watchmaker Alfred Helwig is born. He developed the flying tourbillon, among many other accomplishments. * 2007 --- 98 watches are stolen from the Girard-Perregaux museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds. They were discovered under a tree just over the border in France two days later. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0706 * 1960 --- German businessman Hans Wilsdorf, founder of Rolex, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0707 * 1673 --- British watchmaker George Graham is born. He is considered to be one of the greatest watchmakers of all time, creating the Graham escapement and cylinder escapement. * 1933 --- The Fabrique d'Horlogerie Rayville S.A. is registered, reorganizing the historic Villeret firm of Blancpain after seven generations of family leadership. * 1990 --- The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie is launched at a press conference in text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0708 * 1695 --- Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens dies. He built the first pendulum clocks and pioneered pocket watches. * 1992 --- The acquisition of revived watchmakers Blancpain and Frédéric Piguet by SMH is announced, bringing Jean-Claude Biver to the group. He would lead Omega's resurgence over the next decade. * 2005 --- text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0709 * 2003 --- TAG Heuer receives a patent for a four barrel movement, which would become the TAG Heuer V4 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0710 * 1962 --- A pair of Bulova Accutron timers begins controlling live commercial broadcasts aboard the Telstar I satellite * 1943 --- Corporal Clive James Nutting, one of the organizers of The Great Escape, receives a Rolex Oyster Chronograph at Stalag Luft III, where he was a prisoner of war. The company sends the watch free of charge. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0711 * 1958 --- Swiss/Italian watchmaker Franck Muller is born. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0713 * 1935 --- Ardath is founded in Geneva by Edmond Dreyfuss * 1950 --- Orient is founded. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0714 * 2010 --- MB&F introduces the Horological Machine No. 4 "Thunderbolt" with its unique twin nacelle design. * 2017 --- Georges Kern abruptly resigns as Head of Watchmaking for Richemont. Kern then partners with CVC Capital Partners to acquire Breitling for $870 million. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0715 * 1914 --- Rolex acquires the first “Class A” certificate ever awarded to a wrist chronometer at Kew Observatory. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0716 * 1959 --- An experimental Bulova Accutron timer is sent into space on the Explorer VI mission * 1969 --- Apollo 11 lifts off for the first manned flight to the moon, with Omega Speedmaster Professional watches on the wrists of the astronauts. * 2014 --- H. Moser & Cie. introduces the Venturer Tourbillon Dual Time with double hairsprings, one of the first major products under the management of text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0717 * 1975 --- American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts wear Omega Speedmaster Professional watches during the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous in space. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0718 * 1928 --- The executives of Wittnauer's office in New York call the company's Geneva office, connecting the first telephone call between Switzerland and the United States. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0719 * 1972 --- The brand name Arlaska is registered by Hebe Watch SA, located at Alle, Switzerland. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0720 * 1969 --- American astronaut Buzz Aldrin wears his Omega Speedmaster Professional while walking on the surface of the moon. Neil Armstrong left his behind in the lander as a backup for a broken mission timer. * 1978 --- Seiko introduces an ultra-thin watch with the thinnest quartz movement ever produced, just 0.90 mm thick. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0721 * 1969 --- Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong wear Omega Speedmaster Professional watches as they set foot on the Moon for the first time. * 1999 --- Richemont surprises PPR and LVMH by securing the shares of LMH (A. Lange & Söhne, IWC, and Jaeger-LeCoultre) from Vodafone and Audemars Piguet for a record CHF 2.8 billion. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0722 * 1942 --- Louis Joseph Cartier, founder of the world-famous luxury brand Cartier, dies at the age of 67 years. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0723 * 1942 --- Louis Joseph Cartier, founder of the world-famous luxury brand Cartier, dies at the age of 67 years. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0724 * 1942 --- Jacques Frédéric Piguet is born on July 24, 1942. He supplies Jean-Claude Biver with the mechanical movements to revive the brand Blancpain in 1983 and, after the quartz crisis, contributes to the renaissance of the mechanical wristwatch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0725 * 1909 --- Aviation pioneer Louis Bleriot crosses the English Channel in a plane equipped with a Zenith clock. This would be commemorated in later Zenith aviation models. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0726 * 2016 --- Glashütte Original introduces Cal. 36, a new automatic movement, in the Senator Excellence. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0727 * 1979 --- Seiko introduces their thinnest watch to date, measuring just 1.79 mm thick. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0728 * 1721 --- Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz is born. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0729 * 1924 --- Walter Lange is born in Dresden. He would re-start his family's company, A. Lange & Söhne, in 1990. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0730 * 1927 --- Swiss watchmaker Gaston Breitling dies. His father Léon founded Breitling, and Gaston is credited with the first bracelet chronograph. * 2014 --- Luxury group Kering acquires historic haute horology brand Ulysse Nardin. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0731 * 1945 --- Pierre-Alain Blum is born in Neuchâtel (Neuenburg). After he had taken the lead of Ebel in 1970 the company experienced a strong upswing in sales. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0801 * 1793 --- Jean-Francois Bautte becomes partner of Jacques-Dauphin Moulinié under the company name Moulinié & Bautte. He was one of the most famous watchmakers of his time. 1906 the company Bautte is taken over by the manufacture Girard-Perregaux. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0802 * 1891 --- The Swiss watchmaker Jean Aegler, who had founded the Uhrenfabrik Aegler, dies. Later this company became “Aegler SA, Rolex Watch Company” and afterwards part of Rolex. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0803 * 2000 --- Mannesmann approves the sale of LMH to Richemont, which had surprised the industry when announced on July 21. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0804 * 1978 --- Bulova announces that it will shift all production from Queens, New York to Switzerland. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0805 * 2010 --- Breguet introduces the high beat Type XXII 10 HZ text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0806 * 1926 --- Hans Wilsdorf receives patent number 120558, the screw-down crown that would inspire the Rolex Oyster name and become a crown jewel for Rolex. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0807 * 1954 --- Rudolf Lange, watchmaker and co-owner of the company A. Lange & Söhne, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0808 * 1845 --- Saxony watch pioneer Johann Christian Friedric Gutkaes dies. He was the teacher of Ferdinand Adolph Lange and Karl Moritz Großmann. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0809 * 2008 --- Omega gains worldwide exposure as official timekeeper of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0810 * 1906 --- The watchmaker Alphonse "Alvi" Braunschweig dies, probably by murder. In 1895 he had become director of the company A. Braunschweig, later called Election. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0811 * 1914 --- Swiss watchmaker Léon Breitling dies. He founded Breitling. * 1970 --- Bulova announces the creation of the first miniaturized Accutron movement for ladies. * 2008 --- Richemont acquires a controlling interest in Swiss watch brand Roger Dubuis, after acquiring the company's manufacturing assets a year earlier. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0812 * 2002 --- The town of Glashütte is flooded, seriously damaging the historic home of Ferdinand Adolf Lange and the Nomos factory, as well as the operations of A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte Original, and Mühle. The collections of the Glashütte Watch Museum were spared since they had been temporarily moved for renovation. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0813 * 1967 --- CEH-1020, a hand-built prototype with the Beta 1 movement, attains a chronometer certification from the Neuchâtel Observatory, the world's first quartz watch. * 1996 --- The historic German brand Union is re-established in Glashütte, having been dormant for 60 years. It would become part of Swatch Group in 2000. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0814 * 1931 --- The first assembly of the Société Générale de l'Horlogerie Suisse is held in Neuchâtel, bringing the strongest watchmakers together in a holding company for the first time. * 2017 --- Ming Watch introduces the Ming 17.01, the brand's first model. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0815 * 1886 --- The watchmaker Julius Assmann dies. He was one of the pioneers of the watch industry in Glashütte and founder of J. Assmann/Glashütte i.SA, Deutsche Anker-Uhren-Fabrik. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0816 * 1894 --- Stolz Frères SA (later Angelus) applies for a patent on a refined mechanism for the stopwatch counter; it receives patent number CH-9124. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0817 * 2011 --- Famed watch designer Gérald Charles Genta dies at 80. He was the creator of some of the most celebrated watches of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and established two namesake brands. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0818 * 1890 --- A hurricane destroys much of the watchmaking industry in the Vallée de Joux. * 2020 --- Ferdinand Berthoud introduces their second-generation FB 2RE collection. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0819 * 1926 --- British watchmaker George Daniels is born. He was one of the most celebrated modern watchmakers, inventing the co-axial escapement now used by Omega. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0820 * 1969 --- Longines is first to announce a quartz watch, the Ultra-Quartz * 2014 --- Seiko opens its first American boutique, on Madison Avenue in New York City. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0821 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft * 2018 --- Patrick Pruniaux becomes CEO of Girard-Perregaux, moving from Ulysse Nardin and replacing Antonio Calce text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0822 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0823 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0824 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0825 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0826 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft * 2020 --- The inaugural Geneva Watch Days event is held in Geneva, the only watch fair of 2020 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0827 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft * 2004 --- In Fleurier the Fondation Qualité Fleurier / Fleurier Quality Foundation (FQF) is formed, among others by the manufacturers text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0828 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. wear Omega Speedmaster watches while orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft * 2015 --- Girard-Perregaux combines a big date and moon phase complication to the 1966 line, creating the 1966 Large Date and Moon Phases * 2018 --- Swatch Group and Audemars Piguet jointly announce the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0829 * 1965 --- American astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Charles Conrad, Jr. land after orbiting the earth 120 times in 9 days aboard the Gemini V spacecraft. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0830 * 1809 --- Abraham-Louis Breguet gives the first tourbillon watch to John Arnold's father. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0831 * 2002 --- LVMH unveils the Louis Vuitton Watches line with the Tambour line * 2020 --- Rolex updates the iconic Submariner with a larger 41mm case and new movement text/html 2023-09-01T09:39:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0901 * Annually --- Mean time and solar time match * 1924 --- John Harwood receives a patent for the automatic watch text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0902 * 1998 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to Philippe Dufour, Luigi Macaluso, and Yves Droz and Joseph Flores * 1999 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to Derek Pratt, Gabriel Feuvrier, and Estelle Fallet * 2019 --- Ming Watch introduces the Ming 17.06, which would go on to win the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève Horological Revelation prize for the young brand later that year text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0903 * 1916 --- German pilot and entrepreneur Helmut Sinn, founder of Sinn, is born. * 1933 --- Malcolm Campbell sets a world record of 300 mph wearing a Rolex Oyster text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0904 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0905 * 1995 --- A fire destroys much of the ETA factory in Fontainemelon, severely limiting production. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0907 * 2020 --- Audemars Piguet introduces the Code 11.59 Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0908 * 1934 --- Guido Panerai dies at 61. He supplied the Italian Navy with dive watches, and his company would become an important part of Richemont decades later. * 1991 --- Ronda officially opens its plant in Thailand as it transitions to volume quartz production text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0909 * 1870 --- German watch entrepreneur Erhard Junghans dies. * 2009 --- Famed high jewelry brand Fabergé is re-launched. * 2020 --- Parmigiani Fleurier introduces the Tonda GT line of sports watches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0910 * 2018 --- Jérôme Lambert is named Group CEO of Richemont. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0911 * 1968 --- Bulova announces that they have reached an agreement to license their tuning fork watch technology to Ebauches SA. It would be rendered obsolete by quartz in less than a decade. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0912 * 1977 --- Lip is liquidated after two worker takeovers of the factory. * 1994 --- The second round of Prix Gaïa awards are given to François-Paul Journe, Anton Bally, and François Mercier. * 2011 --- Swatch Group unilaterally dissolves Tiffany Watch, accusing the famed New York jeweler of hindering the growth of the joint venture. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0913 * 1999 --- TAG Heuer management announces that it has accepted an acquisition offer from LVMH text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0914 * 1999 --- Historic luxury brands Breguet and Nouvelle Lemania are acquired by Swatch Group * 2018 --- Rumors begin that Chanel has acquired a 20% stake in independent watchmaker Montres Journe SA. Francois-Paul Journe confirmed the report on September 17. * 2005 --- The world premiere of Seiko's Spring Drive watch is held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It goes on sale the following day. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0915 * 2011 --- Philippe Stern, President of Patek Philippe, and watchmaker François Junod win the Prix Gaïa award. * 2015 --- Alpina introduces the in-house Cal. AL-710 automatic movement. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0916 * 1966 --- Soprod is opened as a manufacturer of movements for Arly, Damas, Rila, Dulux, Hoga, A. Reymond, and Spera. It would become a major movement producer, and remains in business today. * 2004 --- André Beyner wins the Prix Gaïa award. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0917 * 1823 --- Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet dies. He is credited for many innovations, including improving automatic winding, free-sprung escapement, shock protection, and the so-called Breguet hairspring. His son founded the eponymous Breguet company. * 1967 --- The first prototype Beta 2 watches are delivered for testing to the Neuchâtel Observatory. These would be productized as the first Swiss quartz watch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0918 * 1978 --- German watchmaker Stefan Kudoke is born. * 2014 --- At the Prix Gaïa ceremony, awards are given to Kari Voutilainen, Henri Dubois, and Pierre Thomann text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0919 * 2019 --- Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, Suzanne Rohr, and Laurent Tissot win the Prix Gaïa award. text/html 2024-09-20T08:15:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0920 * 1949 --- Influential watch producer Jean-Claude Biver is born in Luxemburg. He would make a fortune from his ownership of Blancpain, which he sold to Swatch Group. He then lead Omega's revitalization before retiring. Then he took control of Hublot, which he sold to LVMH. He then rebuilt TAG Heuer. * 2007 --- The Prix Gaïa award ceremony is held, with text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0921 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0922 * 1995 --- Pierre Imhof, scion of the Authur Imhof clock factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds and contributor to the International Watch and Clock Museum and MIH Institute, dies. * 2015 --- Chopard introduces the Chronomètre Ferdinand Berthoud brand with the FB 1, which would go on to win the Aiguille d'Or at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève in 2016. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0923 * 1835 --- French clockmaker Antide Janvier dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0925 * 2013 --- Vacheron Constantin introduces the ultra-thin Cal. 1731 minute repeater movement in the Patrimony Contemporaine Ultra-Thin * 2020 --- Tudor introduces the new Royal collection globally text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0927 * 2016 --- Vacheron Constantin introduces the Traditionnelle minute repeater tourbillon months ahead of SIHH. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0928 * 1946 --- The Radio Corporation of America announces commercial production of an electronic stopwatch accurate to one millionth of a second. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0929 * 1973 --- 100,000 workers across France protest over the continued mistreatment of Lip workers in Besançon. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_0930 * 1953 --- A Rolex Submariner attached outside a submersible reaches a depth of 10,335 feet, permanently establishing the reputation of the new model * 1970 --- The world's first titanium watch, the Citizen X-8 Chronometer, appeared for sale in September text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1001 * 1996 --- Jacques Etoile is founded. * 2001 --- Günter Blümlein dies in Schaffhausen. He began working at Junghans before joining VDO Automotive to lead IWC and Jaeger-LeCoultre and the resurgence of Swiss watchmaking in the 1980s and 1990s. * 2001 --- Fossil Group acquires the Swiss brand, Zodiac text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1002 * 1827 --- Master Glashütte watchmaker Julius Assmann is born. * 1916 --- Charles-Auguste Heuer receives a patent for the Mikrograph, the world's first 1/100th second stopwatch. * 1967 --- Reinhard Straumann dies in Waldenburg. He was technical director for Revue Thommen and director of the FH and, on his own time, invented the Nivarox balance spring material still in use today. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1003 * 1967 --- Test pilot Pete Knight reaches Mach 6.7, a speed record that would last 30 years, wearing a Rolex GMT-Master * 2019 --- Swatch inaugurates its new headquarters building in Biel text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1005 * 1838 --- Swiss watchmaker Philippe Samuel LeCoultre dies in Geneva. * 1932 --- Swiss watchmaker Edouard-Arthur Perrelet dies at age 66 in Les Bayards. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1006 * 1881 --- Maurice Savoye, who managed the growth of Longines from 1927 through the 1950s, is born. * 2011 --- MB&F introduces the Legacy Machine No. 1, their first round watch, with a vertical power reserve indicator and balance suspended above the dial. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1007 * 2003 --- High-profile watch entrepreneur Jean-Pierre Jaquet is taken into custody on charges of robbery, receiving stolen goods, and forgery as part of “the Jaquet affair”. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1008 * 1996 --- The Swiss watch brand Bedat & Co, which is specialized on women's collections, is founded by Christian Bédat and his mother Simone Bédat. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1009 * 2000 --- Swatch Group acquires Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb (GUB), which would become the Glashütte Original brand. * 2006 --- Richemont acquires famed watch movement maker Minerva. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1010 * 1982 --- ETA tests the market for the Swatch with a launch in Dallas, Texas, USA five months before the official introduction of the inexpensive plastic watch * 2009 --- Omega announces the Seamaster Planet Ocean Liquidmetal, the first watch to use ceramic and liquidmetal components text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1011 * 2008 --- “Space tourist” Richard Garriot blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the International Space Staton. He wears a special Seiko Spring Drive watch, the “Spacewalk”, created for the occasion and first shown at Baselworld that year. Garriot's actual space walk is cancelled, however. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1012 * 1968 --- Omega gains international recognition at the opening of the Summer Olympics in Mexico City text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1013 * 1856 --- Andreas Huber founds his namesake watch store in Munich. * 1959 --- A Bulova Accutron timer is launched into orbit as part of the Explorer VII mission * 2017 --- Roger Dubuis, famed watchmaker and founder of his eponymous brand, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1014 * 2010 --- Bulgari wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Bulgari Octo Bi-Retro. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1015 * 1918 --- Jules-Louis Audemars, founder of Audemars Piguet dies in Le Brassus. * 1984 --- Joakim Lehmkuhl, who drove Timex to dominate the American watch industry after World War II, dies. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1016 * 1923 --- John Harwood receives Swiss patent 106583 for his “montre à remontage automatique”, the first automatic winding watch. * 2006 --- Wempe launches its own watch lines, Chronometerwerke and Zeitmesser. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1018 * 1916 --- Florentine Ariosto Jones, founder of IWC, dies in Boston, Massachusetts. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1019 * 1852 --- German watch entrepreneur Arthur Junghans is born. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1020 * 1999 --- LVMH announces the acquisition of Chaumet and Ebel, outbidding Swatch Group text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1021 * 1927 --- Mercedes Gleitze swims the English Channel with an early Rolex Oyster provided by Hans Wilsdorf. * 1940 --- Tiffany & Co. opens its iconic showroom at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York. * 2011 --- British watchmaker George Daniels dies. He was one of the most celebrated modern watchmakers, inventing the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1022 * 2013 --- A. Lange & Söhne's 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar wins both the Grande Complication Prize and Public Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève * 2014 --- Urwerk's EMC wins both the Innovation Watch Prize and Mechanical Exception Watch Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève * 2019 --- After 22 years, Swatch Group and Calvin Klein announce that their partnership has ended. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1023 * 2017 --- Girard-Perregaux introduces the ceramic Laureato line text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1024 * 1987 --- Georges Golay, managing director who oversaw Audemars Piguet since 1966 and was instrumental in the FH, dies. * 1994 --- The newly-resurrected firm of A. Lange & Söhne presents its first collection, including the Lange 1, Saxonia, and a tourbillon. * 2011 --- Piaget wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Altiplano 900P. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1025 * 1960 --- Bulova introduces the Accutron, the world's first tuning fork electronic watch. * 2012 --- MELB Holding acquires Hautlence. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1026 * 1934 --- Master watchmaker Kurt Klaus is born near Schaffhausen. In the 1980s and 1990s, his complications would lead to the resurgence of IWC and the entire Swiss watch industry. * 2001 --- George Daniels wins the Prix Gaïa “Artisan-Creation” award. * 2012 --- Breguet wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Héritage Phases de Lune Rétrograde 8860. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1027 * 2010 --- Luigi Macaluso, who revitalized Girard-Perregaux after acquiring it through his Sowind Group in 1992, dies unexpectedly. The company is taken over by PPR the following year. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1028 * 2008 --- Piaget wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Altiplano Petite Seconde Excentrée. The company also won Ladies' Watch of the Year for the Magic Hour. * 2009 --- Vacheron Constantin wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Historiques American 1921. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1029 * 1988 --- Zenith International officially dissolves and integrates the other Le Locle watchmakers purchased by Dixi over the previous decades Jean Perret, Terrasse, Luxor, Paul Buhré, Robert Cart, H. Moser & Cie., and Zodiac. The brand names would officially be retired in 1989. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1030 * 1985 --- German scientist and astronaut Reinhard Alfred Furrer launches aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on the D1 mission. Wearing a Sinn 142 S on his wrist, he brings the first automatic chronograph into space. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1031 * 2006 --- Rodolphe wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Instinct Chrono 180°. * 2014 --- Breguet's Classique Chronométrie takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1101 * 1994 --- Entrepreneur Heinz W. Pfeifer and the Nuremberg jeweler Alfred Wallner buy the Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB), renaming the brand Glashütte Original. They would sell the revitalized brand to Swatch Group in 2000. * 2007 --- Vacheron Constantin wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Patrimony Contemporaine Date et Jour rétrogradants. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1102 * 2005 --- Breguet wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Tradition. * 2015 --- Greubel Forsey's Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1103 * 1892 --- Reinhard Straumann is born near Waldenburg. He would become technical director for Revue Thommen and director of the FH and, on his own time, invented the Nivarox balance spring material still in use today. * 2016 --- Armin Strom introduces the Mirrored Force Resonance * 2017 --- Ming Watch introduces the Ming 19.01 which would be nominated for the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève Petit Aiguille despite being only the brand's second model. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1104 * Annually --- Maximum deviation between mean time and solar time of minus 16 minutes 23 seconds * 1998 --- Swatch Group divests the Smart Micro Compact Car to Daimler-Benz text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1105 * 2013 --- TAG Heuer introduces the Cal. 1969, an ill-fated in-house chronograph movement that would be renamed Cal. CH80 and finally Heuer 02 before volume production began 5 years later. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1106 * 1967 --- Rolex files a patent for the helium gas escape valve that would be used on the Sea-Dweller. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1107 * 1856 --- Dr. Girard and Schild Ebauches is founded in Grenchen. This marked the creation of both Eterna and the modern-day ETA. * 2019 --- Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, Ref. 26586 takes the grand prize at the 2019 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1108 * 2001 --- The Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva opens. * 2012 --- F.P.Journe launches the Souveraine Chronomètre Optimum. * 2013 --- Girard-Perregaux's Constant Escapement L.M. takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. * 2017 --- Chopard's L.U.C Full Strike takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1109 * 2006 --- F.P. Journe wins the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève Aiguille d'Or for the Sonnerie Souveraine. * 2018 --- Bovet 1822's Récital 22 Grand Récital takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. * 2019 --- A Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime is sold at a Christie's Auction for US$31 million, the most expensive sale to date. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1110 * 2004 --- Chopard wins the Montre de l'Année award for the LUC 4R Quattro Régulateur. * 2016 --- Chronomètre Ferdinand Berthoud's FB 1 takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1111 * 1967 --- Seiko delivers four prototype quartz watches for chronometer certification to the Neuchâtel Observatory, just three months after the CEH prototypes. * 2004 --- F.P. Journe wins the “Aiguille d'Or” Grand Prix at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève for the Tourbillon Souverain à seconde morte. * 2011 --- Hermès wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Arceau Le Temps Suspendu. * 2014 --- The famous Patek Philippe "Graves Supercomplication" is sold at a Sotheby's Auction for US$24 m… text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1112 * 2007 --- Cartier wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Déclaration. * 2016 --- A stainless steel Patek Philippe Ref. 1518 is sold at a Phillips Auction for US$11 million, the second-most expensive sale at that time. * 2020 --- Piaget wins the Aiguille d'Or Grand Prix for the ultra-thin Altiplano Ultimate Concept, which measures just 2 mm thick. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1113 * 1965 --- Maurice Savoye, who managed the growth of Longines from 1927 through the 1950s, dies. * 2008 --- F.P. Journe wins the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève award for the Centigraphe Souverain. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1114 * 1999 --- A Patek Philippe rattrapante watch from 1922 is auctioned for a record price, nearly US$2 million. * 2007 --- Richard Mille wins the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève award for the RM 012. * 2009 --- A Patek Philippe Cal. 89 is sold at an Antiquorum Auction for US$5 million, the most expensive auction sale to date. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1115 * 1915 --- Hans Wilsdorf registers the name Rolex. * 1999 --- Zenith management announces that it has accepted an acquisition offer from luxury group LVMH. * 2000 --- Piaget wins the Montre de l'Année award for the Emperador. * 2012 --- TAG Heuer's Mikrogirder takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. * 2012 --- MB&F's Legacy Machine No. 1 wins both the Men's Watch Prize and Public Prize at the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1116 * 1751 --- British watchmaker George Graham dies. He is considered to be one of the greatest watchmakers of all time, creating the Graham escapement and cylinder escapement. * 2011 --- Favre Leuba is acquired by Titan, part of Tata Group, from Valentin. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1117 * 1932 --- Jack W. Heuer is born * 2020 --- Audemars Piguet introduces the Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon the first combination of these technologies in a Royal Oak watch. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1118 * 1720 --- French watchmaker Jean-Antoine Lépine is born. * 2013 --- Girard-Perregaux's Constant Escapement L.M. wins the Aiguille d'Or at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève * 2010 --- Greubel Forsey's Double Tourbillon 30° Edition Historique takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1119 * 2011 --- De Bethune's DB28 takes the grand prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ceremony. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1120 * 2003 --- Patek Philippe wins the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève Aiguille d'Or for the 5101 P "10 Jours Tourbillon". * 2015 --- The Prix Gaïa awards are given to Anita Porchet, Giulio Papi, and Jonathan Betts * 2017 --- Vacheron Constantin introduces the Overseas dual time prior to SIHH. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1122 * 2001 --- Bulgari reveals that it has purchased the brands of Daniel Roth and Gerald Genta at a surprise press conference in Le Sentier. The company had initially announced its intentions in July 2000. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1124 * 1927 --- Rolex launches the Rolex Oyster in the UK market. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1125 * 2019 --- LVMH announces that it has reached an agreement to acquire Tiffany & Co. for €14.7 billion. After a series of lawsuits, the deal would close on January 7, 2021. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1126 * 1918 --- Baume Fréres joins with Paul Mercier to become Baume & Mercier in Geneva. * 1965 --- Roger Wellinger, director of the CEH, declares the strategic goal of creating a “montres-bracelet à quartz”, the world's first quartz wristwatch. * 1997 --- The Richemont board announces that it will acquire the 30% of Vendôme that it did not already control. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1128 * 1790 --- Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz dies. * 1977 --- A worker cooperative is formed to reopen the bankrupt Lip factory in Besançon. * 2002 --- Patek Philippe wins the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève Aiguille d'Or for the 5102 Ciel Lune. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1129 * 2001 --- Vacheron Constantin wins the first Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève Aiguille d'Or for the Lady Kalla. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1130 * 1982 --- Breitling is re-launched. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1202 * 1999 --- The famous Patek Philippe "Graves Supercomplication" is sold at a Sotheby's Auction for US$11 million, the most expensive sale to date. It was re-sold in 2014 for a new record, US$24 million. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1203 * 1875 --- Glashütte watchmaker Ferdinand Adolph Lange dies. He founded the firm A. Lange & Söhne in 1845. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1204 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. take off aboard Gemini VII to orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1205 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. begin to orbit the earth aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. * 2014 --- Piaget introduces the Altiplano Chronograph, the world's thinnest chronograph watch text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1206 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1207 * 1845 --- Famed watch company A. Lange & Söhne is established in Glashütte by Ferdinand Adolphe Lange. His great grandson Walter Lange would re-establish the company there on the same date in 1990, and the original factory would re-open on this date in 2001. * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1208 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. * 2000 --- Richemont completes its acquisition of LMH, including 60% of Jaeger-LeCoultre, 90% of A. Lange & Söhne, and 100% of text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1209 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. * 2014 --- Omega and METAS announce the creation of a new chronograph standard, Master Co-Axial Officially Certified. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1210 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. * 2013 --- Piaget introduces the ultra-thin Altiplano 900P, the world's thinnest mechanical watch with a movement integrated into its case text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1211 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1212 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. * 1996 --- Vendôme announces the acquisition of famed luxury brand Vacheron Constantin from Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1213 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1214 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1215 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. aboard Gemini VII rendezvous with Walter M. Shirra, Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford aboard Gemini VI. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1216 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. aboard Gemini VII rendezvous with Walter M. Shirra, Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford aboard Gemini VI. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1217 * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. orbit the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission. * 2019 --- Parmigiani Fleurier introduces the Hijri Perpetual Calendar watch, featuring Arabic lettering and a calendar to track Muslim holy days. It would win the Innovation Prize at the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1218 * 1960 --- A team at the Seiko site in Suwa, central Japan, completes the first “Grand Seiko” model with a gold case and a slim manufacture caliber. This marks the birth of the eponymous “Grand Seiko” brand. * 1965 --- American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. land after orbiting the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1219 * 1967 --- The CEH officially announces the development of a quartz wrist watch, the Beta series that would go on sale in 1970. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1220 * 1927 --- The Soviet government takes the decision to set up its own watch industry. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1222 * 2013 --- An arbitrator sides with Swatch Group in their accusation that Tiffany & Co. breached a joint venture contract with the company that created a short-lived line of Tiffany Watch branded watches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1223 * 1971 --- The Swiss watch industry codifies “Swiss Made” for the first time. * 2003 --- LVMH sells Ebel to Movado Group for 61.5 million CHF. * 2008 --- The Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk watch is finally used in an actual space walk, months after “space tourist” Richard Garriot's spacewalk was called off. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1224 * Annually --- Mean time and solar time match text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1225 * 1969 --- Seiko offers the first quartz watch for sale, the Seiko Astron. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1227 * 1926 --- A. Schild AG, Adolphe Michel SA, and Fabrique d' Horlogerie de Fontainemelon join together to form Ebauches SA, a watch movement holding company that would dominate the industry for a century. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1228 * 1948 --- The Waltham Watch Company files for bankruptcy. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1230 * 1926 --- Ebauches SA is officially registered, bringing together the largest watch movement makers in Switzerland and laying the foundation for the establishment of the modern ETA and Swatch Group. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_anniversaries_1231 * Occasionally --- A “leap second” can be added at any time, but the IERS prefers to add one on June 30 or December 31. One is needed about every 20 months. * 1999 --- Zenith stops supplying the El Primero chronograph movement to Rolex, interrupting supply of the popular Cosmograph Daytona model. text/html 2022-11-29T17:28:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_eta_2800_calibres This movement family is derived from the ETA 2750 and ETA 2770, which were themselves evolved from the ETA 2600 and ETA 2620 and originally the ETA 2370 and ETA 2375. Today, the most common members of this family are the ETA 2824 and ETA 2836. Note that the ETA 2892 family is technically unrelated to this, having been derived from an entirely different series of text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_eta_2890_calibres The 289x movements are entirely different from the 2824/2836 line, being derived from the ultra-thin Eterna 1466. There have been three generations of this movement: The original 2890 and 2892 of the 1970's, the updated 2892-2 of the 1980's, and the modern 2892A2, introduced in 1999. Due to its thin profile and proven reliability, many modular movements use this calibre as a base. Notable among these is the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_internal * About Watch Wiki, Copyright * , , * Dokuwiki: Welcome, Dokuwiki, Syntax text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_iwc_59000_movement_family Movement Year Introduced Jewels Central Hands Small Seconds Power Reserve Indicator Calendar Special Features Example WatchIWC 59210 2011 30 Hour and minute Yes 8:00 Date N/A IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days IWC 59060 2015 30 Hour and minute No Back No N/A IWC Portofino Pure Classic IWC 59215 2013 30 Hour and minute Yes Back Date N/A text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_jaeger-lecoultre_alarm_calibres Jaeger-LeCoultre Alarm Calibres * Manual winding * 1951-1958 Calibre 489 (also P489 with Parachoc shock resistance) - screwed balance, dual top plates * 1952 Calibre 601 - transitional model, fewer than 2,000 produced, with a single top plate * 1953-1964 Calibre 814 - improved model (also Parachoc P814 and Kif K814) - screwed balance, single top plate text/html 2023-04-14T15:05:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lange_soehne_calibres Calibre overview: Calibre          Year                Winding Application Lange L901 1994-present Big date movement for the Lange 1, Lange 1 Moonphase, Lange 1 Time Zone, Little Lange 1 Lange L902 1994-1999 Tourbillon movement for the Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite" Lange L903 2006-2012 Tourbillon rattrapante movement for the Tourbograph "Pour le Mérite" Lange L911 1994-present Hand-winding movement for the Arkade Lange L921 text/html 2022-11-29T14:03:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lemania_1873_family Lemania 1872 Family Movement Features Subdials 3:00 6:00 9:00 12:00 1872 30 minute N/A 60 second N/A 1873 12 hour 1877 24 hour time 1874 Date and moon phase 1883 text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_01 Jean-Francois Bautte Swiss watchmaker and watch dealer Jean-Francois Bautte was born on March 26, 1772 in Geneva, the son of enamel specialist Abraham Bautte and his wife Marie-Anne. He orphaned early, as the father dies when he is a year old, and his mother commits suicide when he is ten. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_02 Constantin Othenin Girard Swiss watchmaker Constantin Othenin Girard is born in September 1825. In 1852, together with his brother Numa, he founds the company Girard & Cie. Two years later he marries Marie Perregaux, and from the merger of their names or through collaboration with the then already famous chronometer maker Henri Perregaux in text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_03 Gold Precious metal Gold (Indo-Germanic ghel shiny, yellow) is the chemical element with the abbreviation «Au» (Aurum -- from «aurora», dawn). The technical symbol for gold, a circle with a dot in the center, is identical with the sign of astronomers for the sun. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_04 Aletta & Peter Stas Swiss watch entrepreneurs Aletta Bax and Peter Stas C. founded, both still at a young age, 1988 in Geneva the independent family company Frederique Constant in its present form. By chance we find the company name formed from the name of the forefathers also in the name of the present owners Aletta Francoise text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_05 Complication --- also Grande Complication Elaborate mechanical auxiliary function at a watch. Well-known examples are * Tourbillon * Repetition * Perpetual calendar * Alarm function * Power reserve * Worldtimer, also dual time zone, GMT * Moon phase * Equation of time * Astronomical indications * Big date Of course, also chronograph functions can be attributed to text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_06 Louis Brandt (1825-1879) Swiss watchmaker In 1848 Louis Brandt, only 23 years old, opened a factory for the production of pocket watches in La Chaux-de-Fonds (canton Neuchâtel). The models produced there first bore his own name, ie “Louis Brandt,” on the dial. After the elder son Louis Paul entered text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_07 Mohs hardness scale --- in short Mohs The so-called Mohs scale assigns the numbers from 1 to 10 to the material hardness 1 for the softest, 10 for the hardest. It is named after the German geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs (1773-1839). Mohs scratched different minerals against each other and so aligned them according to their hardness. Mohs (MOH) therefore holds as a measuring unit for the material hardness text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_08 Luminous color Persistent or self-luminous luminous colors are used for watch numerals, indexes and hands, to be read in the dark. Previously these luminous colors consisted of radioactive substances, today only phosphorescent colors are used. Prevailed for the average everyday use has the absolutely harmless and non-radioactive text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_09 Movement The drive mechanism of a watch is called movement. The characteristic ticking of the mechanical watch is the vibration and acoustic feature of the escapement system of a watch movement. The oscillating system consists of the back and forth swinging balance wheel [5] on the text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_10 Jörg Hysek is an artist, designer and watch manufacturer Jörg Hysek ranks amongst the best known and most successful watches designers. He was born on May 14, 1953 in Berlin (East) and in 1960 came with his parents, just before the construction of the Wall, to text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_11 ] Alarm watch Probably the first alarm watch was invented by the Greek philosopher Plato in the 4th century BC by repurposing a water clock From a container water dribbled permanently into a second container that capsized at a time-dependent filling height and emptied itself into a third container. The air therein was compressed abruptly and escaped through a pipe valve, whose shrill sound clearly could revive the dead. text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_12 Chronomatic (Breitling/Heuer Calibre 11) The Chronomatic was the result of a remarkable alliance of leading watch manufacturers. Dubois Dépraz first investigated the idea of combining a chronograph module of their design with a thin Büren micro-rotor automatic movement, but it was text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_13 Equation of time The equation of time is the difference between time as read from a sundial and time as read from a clock or watch. Due to the elliptical orbit of the earth the two times only match on April 15, June 14, September 1 and Dec 24th. On all other days, the deviation reaches from minus 16 minutes 23 seconds (4 November) to plus 14 minutes 22 seconds (on February 11). text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_14 Kevlar® Kevlar is an extremely resistant synthetic fiber, which goes back to a discovery that the researcher Stephanie Kwolek made 1965 in the research department of the company DuPont. Kevlar is extremely heat and cold resistant. The material is extremely stretch resistant and largely immune to chemicals and solvents. Ropes and cables made of Kevlar® are have such a high tensile strength that they have proven themselves at the anchorage of large offshore oil drilling platforms. Indicative of … text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_15 Moon phase indication Watch function (complication) A moon-phase indication is a rotating disk, shown in a dial section, that indicates the position of the moon - usually the way it presents itself at the observation of the Northern Hemisphere. Known watches with moon-phase indication were, for instance, the first models with which text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_16 Skeletonizing In order to give the watch a more filigree appearance, bridges, plates, dials and possibly also rotors are cut out, leaving as little material as possible, so through watch glass and transparent case bottoms an elaborate ornament is visible. There is manual and automatic (computer controlled) skeletonization. Best known for the former are text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_17 Guillochage Guillochage is a method of refining watches. Hereby ornaments and patterns of intersecting lines (straight and curved) are engraved by machine or by hand. They can be found on dials and cases made of silver or gold. The processed surfaces are then called text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_18 Jean-Claude Biver Jean-Claude Biver caused a furore both by the relaunch of the luxury brand Blancpain, and also by his spectacular start at Hublot, where he launched the sensational model Big Bang. He was born on 20 September 1949 in Luxembourg. After working as a manager at text/html 2022-07-03T13:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_19 Abraham-Louis Breguet Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet is regarded as the most important watch maker and inventor in the history of time measurement. He was born on 10 January 1747 in the Swiss town Neuchâtel, which then belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia. He completed an apprenticeship with his stepfather Joseph Tattet in Neuchâtel and from about text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_20 Edouard Heuer Swiss watchmaker, founder of the watch company Heuer. He was was born 1840 as son of a shoemaker in Brügg, Canton of Bern. In 1860, he founded the watch manufacture Heuer in Saint-Imier in the Swiss Jura. 1864, he moved with the company to Biel. Already 1876, he founded a branch in London. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_21 Neuchâtel (Neuenburg) Located in western Switzerland between the Swiss Jura and Lake Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel is the capital of the French-speaking canton Neuchâtel. Between 1707 and 1848, the county of Neuchâtel, whose origins, together with the fortress with the same, lie in the time of High Burgundy ( text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_22 Jack W. Heuer Swiss watch entrepreneur He is the great-grandson of Edouard Heuer, founder of the watch company Heuer. He determined the fate of the company since the 1960s and was largely responsible for the development of legendary sports watch classics such as the model text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_23 Helmut Sinn - former airplane pilot and watch manufacturer He was was born 1916 in Metz, Lorraine on 3 September. The former pilot, flight instructor and rally driver founded the company Sinn Spezialuhren GmbH & Co. KG 1956 in Frankfurt am Main. Especially pilot's watch were produced. After he had led this enterprise to success, through the novel concept of watches direct sales, with good production quality and competitive prices, he sold it in September text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_24 Hans Wilsdorf German businessman, watch entrepreneur and founder of the watch company Rolex. Hans Wilsdorf was born on 22 March 1881 in the Frankish Kulmbach (Northern Bavaria), where he spent his childhood and youth. With 12 years he became orphan. After a commercial training he left Germany in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_25 John Harwood English watchmaker and engineer The history of the English watchmaker John Harwood starts in a watchmaker studio on the Isle of Man in England. As a soldier during World War 1 John Harwood came to know the shortcomings of the wristwatch. From these experiences, he developed the vision of a new, as reliable as possible text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_26 Alfred Helwig German watchmaker and technical writer, and in addition the inventor of the “flying tourbillon” Alfred Helwig was born 1886 in Goldbach/Lower Lusatia on 5 July. From 1900, he carried out a watchmaker training in Sorau at the master watchmaker Dunkel, before he visited the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_27 Charles Antoine LeCoultre Swiss watchmaker and co-founder of Jaeger-LeCoultre Charles-Antoine LeCoultre was born on 16 April 1803, the son of a Huguenot family who came to the Vallée de Joux in the middle of the 16th century. From his father he learned the craft of the cutler, in whose workshop one also focused on the refining of steel for watches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_28 Glashütte German watch town in Saxony, near Dresden Glashütte was documented for the first time in the abbey matriculation of Meissen of 1346. The Archpriest of Dippoldiswalde had, inter alia, the supervisory of the churches at “Bernstein”, “Jahnsbach text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_29 Abraham-Louis Perrelet Swiss watchmaker and inventor of the automatic winding for pocket watches He was born on January 9, 1729 in Le Locle during a long, unusually severe winter. His father, Daniel Perrelet, was a farmer and carpenter. During the interminable winter months Daniel Perrelet made tools, some of which, especially fine worked out, were determined for watchmakers. So it was not surprising that Abraham-Louis since his youth was busy with the making of tools. His career wish seemed c… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_30 Ferdinand Adolph Lange Significant Glashütte watchmaker with an international reputation and founder of the Glashütte watch industry Ferdinand Adolph Lange was born on February 18, 1815 in Dresden as son of a gunsmith. After the divorce of his parents, the family Heber took the young Adolph and enabled him from text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_31 Walter Lange German watchmaker and watch entrepreneur Walter Lange, the son of Rudolf Lange and great-grandson of the famous founder Ferdinand Adolph Lange, was born in 1924. According to the family tradition, he completed a training as master watchmaker in Karlstein and Glashütte. 1942, at the age of 18, he was called for military service. Because of becoming severely wounded on May 7, text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_32 Rainer Brand German watchmaker and company founder Rainer Brand, founder and owner of the watch manufacturer Rainer Brand, was born in August 1962. Like his ancestors, namely his father and grandfather, he was an independent-minded, very self-reliant spirit, who had always known that he would do something quite unique and creative. So he got the idea to engage in the watch industry, not by imitation of a professional career of his ancestors, but as an voluntary vocation. First by starting a tr… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_33 Antoine Norbert Graf de Patek Swiss watch manufacturer of Polish descent Antoine Norbert de Patek Prawdzic was born in 1812. As a Polish cavalryman he fled 1832 over France to Geneva. On May 1, 1839, he founded together with his compatriot Francois Czapek the watch text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_34 Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes Dresden court and small watchmaker, Mecanicus of the exquisite royal watch collection Gutkaes was born on 16 June 1785. He studied mathematics and astronomy. He learned the craft of watchmaking and married on September 21, text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_35 Pilot's watch It cannot be rigidly defined, which attributes a pilot's watch must have. There are chronographs, but also usual manual winding and automatic models, and there are models with bidirectional rotating bezel for the measurement of intermediate times (e.g., the air force chronographs text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_36 Dive watch Wristwatch type specially tailored to the needs of divers. This includes a high water resistance, a counter-clockwise rotating bezel for the measurement of the dive time and the best possible visibility under water. Also a scratch resistant watch glass is important (i.e. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_37 Expedition watch Under the umbrella term “expedition watches” can be summarized watches, which are particularly resistant to adverse external conditions such as extreme cold or heat, dirt or shocks and natural moisture, and which, on the other hand, offer additional special functions. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_38 Gerd-Rüdiger Lang German contemporary watchmaker and founder of the watch manufacturer Chronoswiss Gerd-Rüdiger Lang was born in 1943 in Braunschweig, Germany. He learned the watchmaker's craft in his hometown at the watches shop Jauns from 1958 to 1961. After two years of journeyman work at the firm Gross in Burg/Fehmarn Lang in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_39 Automatic winding With this type of winding, a rotating weight segment (rotor), which is moved by the motions of the watch, causes the self-winding of the movement. The generally accepted design principle is that of the central rotor, though some movements use a micro-rotor. There are unidirectional and bi-directional winding mechanisms. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_40 Chronograph A chronograph is a watch with additional short-time measurement (stopwatch), shown by an additional hand (chrono hand) which can be started, stopped, and reset to zero by pushers in the housing wall. It is critical that the various wheels that control a chronograph are synchronized. There are two methods currently in use to accomplish this One where the chronograph function is controlled by a text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_41 Tourbillon (French for whirlwind) The ingenious inventor Abraham-Louis Breguet had the idea (1801 patented for him) to neutralize a cause of inaccuracy, namely the influence of gravity on the centre of gravity of the balance, through a special device. Here escape wheel, lever and balance wheel are placed on a small plate in a so-called bogey, a cage sitting on the shaft of the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_42 Swatch - name of the fashion watch “Swatch”, as well as of the “Swatch Group”, the Swiss watch manufacturer and world's greatest watch trust The foundation stone for the company Swatch was laid in 1983. At that time was the peak of the quartz crisis and the two largest Swiss watch manufacturers, the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_43 Perpetual calendar (eternal calendar, everlasting calendar) A complicated mechanism (complication) for large clocks and wristwatches, which displays the correct date of the Gregorian calendar up to the year 2100 without any external control intervention. It takes account of all the short and long months, of the twenty-ninth February, and of the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_44 Rattrapante chronograph also Split-seconds chronograph or Double chronograph The second stop-watch hand is dragged along with the chronograph hand. It can be stopped independently by pressing a button in order to measure lap times. After another push of a button it will bounce back under the chronograph hand to continue in conjunction with it. Hereby the measurement of other intermediate times becomes possible. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_45 Titanium The metal Titanium is used more and more for watch cases, especially for watches with a modern appearance. Titanium is nickel-free and thus hypoallergenic --- this is a big advantage for people with allergies. Titanium is completely air-stable and excels text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_46 Chronometer certification A chronometer certification is the testing and official authentication of high-precision watches. High-class watches show only small rate deviations as a function of position and temperature. If the position and temperature dependent deviations are particularly small, the watch is a text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_47 Balance wheel The balance wheel is the heart of the oscillating system of a compact portable timepiece such as a wrist or pocket watch. The vibration of the balance wheel is used to measure time and is one of the main specifications of a movement. The balance wheel produces a temporally-defined movement, rotating back and forth, which is then transmitted through the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_48 Three-quarter plate Around 1864 Ferdinand Adolph Lange developed the legendary classical three-quarter plate caliber in Glashütte for pocket watches. Here the plate covers about three-quarters of the movement. Barrel, crown wheel and the whole gear train are stored there. The bearing of the balance wheel and the anchor are in a cock. Today the ¾ plate is considered as special mark for quality Glashütte watches, text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_49 Julius Assmann Julius Assmann as one of the pioneers of the watch industry is closely linked with the Glashütte watches history. He was was born in Stettin on 2 October 1827 and there he learned the craft of watchmaking. He gained further knowledge at Berlin chronometer makers before he worked from text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_50 Platinum Platinum is the most valuable precious metal. The highly corrosion resistant, malleable and soft heavy metal shows, in the pure, polished state, the so-called dark sheen. The name derives from the Spanish word platina, the diminutive of plata ( text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_51 Jean-Adrien Philippe French watchmaker and partner at Patek Philippe Jean-Adrien Philippe was born 1815 in Bazoche-Guet (France), the son of a watchmaker. He was selected as the second partner of Antoine Norbert Count de Patek after whose cooperation with the co-founder of the company Patek Philippe, the watchmaker Francois Czapek, had failed. (The company was then called text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_lexicon_article_of_the_week_52 Worldtimer A worldtimer watch is one that displays all timezones simultaneously. Worldtimers (also called world time watches or world timers) are watches that, like GMT or dual time zone watches, can show time in more than one time zone simultaneously. However, GMT and dual-time watches only show two locations while a worldtimer shows many time zones at once. Most worldtimers use a disc with labeled timezones, often in the inner dial or outside the main dial near the bezel. Others have unique … text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_patek_philippe_240 Calibre      Dimensions (mm) Jewels Parts Usage Features 240 Ø 27.5, H 2.5327161Calatrava, Golden EllipseNo seconds240/152 Moon phase indicator, power reserve, sub-seconds240 HU Ø 27.5, H 3.8833239World Time 5231, 5230, World Time 713024 time-zones, day/night indicator for all time-zones240 LU CL C Ø 38, H 6.8145315Celestial 6102Date, Moon phase, celestial display, date by central pointer text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_patek_philippe_ch_28-520 Calibre     Dimensions (mm) Jewels Parts Usage Features CH 28-520 C/522Ø 30, H 6.6335327Nautilus 5980Chronograph with 60-minute and 12-hour mono-counter, dateCH 28-520 C/528Ø 30 H 6.6332308Aquanaut 5968Chronograph with 60-minute counter, dateCH 28-520 C FUSØ 31, H 6.9534370Nautilus 5990Chronograph with 60-minute counter, dual time-zoneCH 28-520 HUØ 33, H 7.9738343 text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_patek_philippe_r_27 Calibre     Dimensions (mm) Jewels Parts Usage Features R 27 HUØ 32, H 8.532 462Grand Complications 5531Minute repeater with classic gongsR 27 PSØ 28, H 5.0539 342Grand Complications 5078, 5178, 7040Minute repeaterR 27 PS QR LUØ 28, H 7.2341517Grand Complications 5304Minute repeater, perpetual calendar with retrograde date hand, moon phasesR 27 QØ 28, H 6.941467Grand Complications 5374Minute repeater, perpetual calendar with day, date, month, leap year by hands text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_portal_watch_brands Classical Brands * Patek Philippe and Rolex Interesting facts about two world known brands, which have both written watch history * Vacheron Constantin The oldest watch brand of the world; history and background * From A. Lange & Söhne to Lange Uhren GmbH Watchmaking tradition in Glashütte under the brand name text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_portal_watch_knowledge Basic Terms from the World of Watches * Wristwatch - Pocket watch * Movement - Manufacture * Automatic watch - Quartz watch * Chronometer - Chronometer certification * Geneva Seal - Glashütte Observatory - Qualité Fleurier * Chronograph - Double chronograph - Flyback * Tourbillon - Flying tourbillon - Gyrotourbillon * Repetition * Perpetual calendar - Moon phase - Second time zone - World timer - Equation of time - Alarm watch * Regulator * Waterproof - Screw-in crown * … text/html 2023-11-13T09:52:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_portal_watch_models Automatic * Rolex Datejust Long-term classics from the Rolex Oyster series still in sound quality and with high prestige * Rolex Submariner - Rolex Sea-Dweller The legendary dive watch and one of the best known and most popular watches altogether * Rolex GMT-Master II ‎ Another popular variation of the Sports collection by Rolex * text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_portal_watch_movements A movement essentially consists of the following three functional groups * The power source supplies the movement with energy, so that it moves. * The gear train (transmission) serves for the revolutions increase (1 revolution per hour, per minute) and thus for the force reduction. text/html 2022-11-29T14:15:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_seiko_7s_family Seiko 7S Family The following movements were all based on the Seiko 7S26 movement. Group Year Introduced Movements Mainspring Hacking/ Hand-winding 7S 1996 7S25, 7S26, 7S35, 7S36, 7S55 Traditional No 6R1x 2006 6R15, 6R20, 6R21, 6R24 Spron 510 Yes 4R1x 2008 4R15, 4R16 Spron 510 text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_seiko_9s_family Seiko 9S Family The Seiko 9S family includes three ranges of watch movements: * The initial 9S5x and 8L range introduced in 1998 and running at 28,800 A/h * The "Hi-Beat" 9S8x range introduced in 2009 and running at 36,000 A/h * The "3 Days" power reserve 9S6x range introduced in 2006 text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_valjoux_7750_calibres Winding Model Year 30 Minute Chrono 12 Hour Chrono Special Features Automatic 7750 1973-present Yes Yes 7751 1986-present Yes Yes Full calendar with hands date, moon phase, 24-hours indication7753 2002-present Yes Yes Minute counter at the 3 instead of the 12, date change by pushers at the 10 text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_01 Swiss watch manufacture The watch company LeCoultre was founded in 1833 by the brothers Charles Antoine LeCoultre and François Ulysse LeCoultre in Le Sentier in the Vallée de Joux. The former was a brilliant craftsman who invested all of his energy into developing new manufacturing processes and production methods. His text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_02 TAG Heuer - Swiss watch manufacturer The watch manufacturer Heuer is founded in the year 1860 by Edouard Heuer in Saint-Imier. 1867 the company moves to Biel. 1882 the series production of chronographs begins, and Heuer receives the first patent for a timer mechanism. 1887 follows the invention of the oscillating pinion, which is still used today by well-known watch brands. Heuer's sons, Charles-Auguste and Jules-Edouard Heuer, take over the management of the company in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_03 Breguet - Swiss watch manufacture The name of this famous luxury watch manufacturer comes from Abraham-Louis Breguet, who is considered the foremost watchmaker and inventor in the history of the watch. The appearance of the watches still has the basic features of the models made by Abraham-Louis Breguet classic, often text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_04 Nomos - German watch manufacturer in Glashütte/Sa. On 1 January 1991 the old traditional name “Nomos” is revived by Roland Schwertner from Düsseldorf, a former computer expert. He foundes the company Nomos Glashütte/SA Roland Schwertner KG. The name “Nomos text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_05 Omega SA - Swiss watch manufacturer The origins of the brand Omega go back to the Comptoir d´établissage Louis Brandt, which he opens in 1848 at the young age of only 23 years in La Chaux-de-Fonds. With the watches he travels through Europe in order to bring them personally to the appropriate customers. With the entry of his sons text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_06 Franck Muller - Luxury watch brand in Switzerland The watchmaker Franck Muller is born on 11 July 1958 as son of an Italian and a Swiss. From a young age, he is an exceptional talent. After three years of training at the School of Watchmaking in Geneva he works at the famous watchmaker text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_07 Oris - Swiss watch manufacturer Oris was founded in 1902 under the brand name Lohner & Nägelin in Hölstein as a local watch factory. In 1903 the company registered the brand name Oris. In 1904 Paul Cattin and Georges Christian took over the factory and till text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_08 Piaget - Swiss luxury watch and jewelry manufacture In 1874 Georges Piaget founds the «Ateliers de la Côte-aux-Fées», in which high-precision watch movements are produced ​​for well-known watch manufacturers. In 1911 he hands over the company to his son, Timothée Piaget. In text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_09 Breitling - Swiss watch manufacturer Breitling was founded in 1884 by Léon Breitling in Saint-Imier (Switzerland). In 1892 the plant was relocated to La Chaux-de-Fonds into the newly constructed watch factory, which initially specialized in pocket watches. When Léon Breitling dies in 1914 with only 54 years, the manufacture passes on to his son text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_10 Audemars Piguet - Swiss watch manufacture In 1875 Audemars Piguet is founded by Jules-Louis Audemars and Edward-Auguste Piguet in the Swiss Jura village Le Brassus. The company is the oldest manufacture of the haute horlogerie, which has never been sold by their founding families. Today, like before, the manufacture offers mechanical watches with text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_11 Zeno - Swiss manufacturer of mechanical Pilot's watches The company traces the beginning of its watch manufacturing back to the year 1868 when Jules Godat as a watchmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds sets up an independent business. ​In his small studio Jules Godat produces especially large silver text/html 2024-03-24T15:42:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_12 Zenith - Swiss watch manufacture Only 22 years young, in 1865 Georges Favre-Jacot founded the „Fabrique des Billodes“ in Le Locle. He initially manufactured precision pocket watches that were signed with his name. From 1903, the Favre-Jacot company took part regularly and very successfully in the competitions of the observatory text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_13 Sinn - German watch manufacturer The Sinn Spezialuhren GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1956 by Helmut Sinn. Mainly pilot's watches and chronographs were produced, which could be offered through direct sales at unbeatable prices. In September 1994, Helmut Sinn sold his company to the former IWC staff and engineer text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_14 Cartier - Paris Jewelry and Watches Dynasty In 1847 Louis-François Cartier takes over the jewelry workshop of his master, Adolphe Picard, at 29, rue Montorgueil in Paris. A year ago he, the descendant of a powder horn maker, had become master jeweler and had registered his trademark, the famous heart between the initials L and C surrounded by a diamond. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_15 Temption - German watch manufacturer The former computer expert Klaus Ulbrich fulfilled himself an own long-held dream with the founding of the watch manufacturer Temption. With his watches he tries to meet his own ambitious expectations of quality, which in some cases he sees considerably ignored with other watches made by the industry. This includes for him a perfect readability under all circumstances, a very high quality and stable case and wristband technology, an exterior of the models wh… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_16 Girard-Perregaux - Swiss watch manufacture Girard-Perregaux was founded in 1856 by Constantin Girard Othenin and Henri Perregaux in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The aim of the manufacture was the production of precision watches. Between 1866 and 1876 Girard-Perregaux wins several awards at chronometer competitions of the Observatory of text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_17 Hanhart - German watch manufacturer In 1882 Johann Adolf Hanhart opens a watch and jewelry shop in Diessenhofen (Switzerland). In the very difficult years of the construction of a one man enterprise to a medium-sized company other products must be taken as a seasonal balancing. Because Hanhart considers the development opportunities for the company in Diessenhofen to be too low, in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_18 Minerva - Swiss watch manufacture The brothers Charles and Hyppolite Robert in 1858 founded the company “H. & C. Robert” in Villeret in the Bernese Jura, later becoming just “C. Robert” when only Charles remained. At first the firm worked as etablisseur of pocket watches, preferring movements of Fontainmelon ( text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_19 Certina - Swiss watch manufacturer In 1888 Certina is founded in Grenchen by the brothers Adolf and Alfred Kurth and operates first as Kurth Frères SA. In 1906 the two choose for their watches the name “Grana”, a shortened form of “Granacus”, the Latin name for Grenchen. The first wristwatches appear on the market - mostly for women, since men at that time still refuse wristwatches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_20 Roger Dubuis - Swiss watch manufacture Through the cooperation of the watch engineer Roger Dubuis and the Portuguese watch fan and businessman Carlos Dias in 1995 the company SOGEM SA arises. Roger Dubuis had already worked at Patek Philippe and there gained valuable experience. The two decide to produce only 28 copies of each watch to ensure or even to enhance the exclusivity of each model. In addition each watch has to meet the requirements of the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_21 Tutima - German watch manufacturer The quality grade 'Tutima' was introduced of the Glashütter Uhrenfabrik AG (UFAG) at about 1930. Pocket and wristwatches of this quality brand were equipped with movements of its sister company UROFA (including Calibre 19''' and Calibre 58). From 1941 was also launched the text/html 2026-05-25T08:36:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_22 Universal Genève - Swiss watch manufacture Numa-Emile Descombes and Ulysse Georges Perret together founded in 1894 in Le Locle first an etablissage workshop and a watch trading. Early on, the company specialized in wristwatches and in the first world war produced a bracelet chronograph. By text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_23 Pequignet - French watch manufacturer In 1973 the Frenchman Emile Pequignet founded in the Swiss Jura the brand Pequignet, named after himself. Since the acquisition of the company by Didier Leibundgut, the brand has gained importance worldwide. The company Pequignet was awarded five times with the trophy of the Golden Dial (Cadran d'Or) for its aesthetic qualities. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_24 Chopard - Swiss Uhrenfirma Louis Ulysse Chopard founded in 1860 in Sonvilier in the Swiss Jura a watch company, which manufactured high precision pocket watches and supplied them to the Swiss Railway. Since 1963 the company with the noble-sounding name is owned by the German family Scheufele, because Karl Scheufele, a successful jeweler from text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_25 Guinand - German watch manufacturer After Helmut Sinn had sold his watch company and brand Sinn, he took over the majority of “Guinand Watch Co SA” in 1996 and with the brands Chronosport, Guinand and the pocket watch brand Jubilar again followed his vision of a watch, which should be text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_26 Officine Panerai - Italian watch manufacturer Guido Panerai founds in 1860 in Florence the company Guido Panerai & Figlio. The family enterprise for precision engineering, later renamed to Officine Panerai, is initially concerned with the production of nautical precision instruments, but over the years also develops numerous patents in the area of optics and watches. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_27 Jacques Etoile - German watch manufacturer The watch company Jacques Etoile was founded on October 1, 1996 in Lörrach/Baden. While the father Horst Jakob, an experienced watchmaker, who in 2001 celebrated his 50-year master anniversary, works quite in the silent background at the technology and the models, his son Klaus maintains external relations, including business and customer contacts and trade fairs. Not to mention the Turkish wife of Klaus Jacob, whose name Yildiz (English Star, French E… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_28 Parmigiani - Swiss watch manufacture The brand Parmigiani bears the name of its founder, Michel Parmigiani, who was born in 1950 in Couvet and who spent his youth in the Val-de-Travers, a remote valley of the Swiss canton of Neuchatel. With the support of the Sandoz Family Foundation in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_29 Glashütte Original --- German watch manufacturer In 1990 the Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb (GUB) was created from the VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe. 1994 the Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH is privatized by the selling to Heinz W. Pfeifer and Alfred Wallner and since has the brand name Glashütte Original. With a magnificent flagship of the new collection, the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_30 Stolz Frères SA / Angelus - Swiss watch manufacturer The manufacture Stolz Frères SA was founded 1891 in Le Locle by the brothers Gustav and Albert Stolz. At the time when the company was founded the small office was on the first floor of a house in the Rue du Marais, later in the Rue de Jardin. The externally supplied watch parts were assembled in small workshops. Initially, the focus was on text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_31 Frederique Constant - Swiss watch manufacturer The name “Frederique Constant” represents a synthesis of two names Frederique Schreiner, 1881-1969, and Constant Stas, 1880-1967. The current CEO of Frederique Constant, Dr. Peter Constant Stas, descends in the fourth generation from Constant Stas. Constant Stas founded his company in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_32 Fortis - Swiss watch manufacturer In 1912 the 29-year-old watchmaker Walter Vogt, together with Alfred Rüefli, founds the so-called Kollektivgesellschaft Vogt and Rüefli zur Fabrikation von Uhren (collective society Vogt and Rüefli for the manufacture of watches) in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_33 Eterna --- Swiss watch manufacturer On 7 November 1856 the physician Dr. Josef Girard and the school teacher Urs Schild founded the raw movement manufacturer Dr. Girard and Schild Ebauches in Grenchen. In 1866 Girard retired from the company. Schild as sole owner introduced the mechanical watch production with great difficulty and commuted the company into then text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_34 Ebel Swiss watch manufacturer In 1911 Eugène Blum founds, together with Alice Blum, née Lévy, an etablissage workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds. By combining the first letters of both names --- Eugène Blum Et Lévy --- the artificial name “Ebel” is created. In 1932 Charles, the son of the founder, takes over the management of the company. He is building a sales network of the company and further expands it into many foreign countries. Under the direction of Blum's grandson text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_35 The association, “Corporation d'Horlogers Suisse” (Swiss watchmaker Association) was founded in 1883 by Gottlieb Hauser, and was located in Biel from 1890. The aim of this merger of leading manufacturer and traders was cost-effective production and distribution of watches. From text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_36 Martin Braun The German watchmaker Martin Braun combines in his models the focusses Haute Horlogerie and astronomy. Typical functions are equation of time, sunrise and sunset times, declination (as special rarity) and moon phase. The watchmaking of Martin Braun in 2007 became part of the Franck Muller project Watchland. Famous models and model series are EOS, Boreas, Heliozentric, Astraeus, Notos and Selene. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_37 Baume & Mercier --- Swiss watch manufacturer 1918, under the leadership of William Baume, the merger of the company “Frères Baume” with the Geneva watchmaker Paul Mercier, son of a tsarist officer,was performed. Since 1921 the name of the company is Baume & Mercier, Fabrication Genève text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_38 Habring² Austrian watch manufacturer Also in Austria high-quality mechanical wristwatch are manufactured! Because, after four years of development, the couple Maria Kristina and Richard Habring entered the international watch market in 2004 with a particular piece of news a modular watch, which can be expanded and adjusted afterwards, just as it the wearer wants and can afford. The basic version of this watch, which was dubbed for international clientele text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_39 Pierce Swiss watch manufacturer The watch company Pierce was founded in 1883 in Biel (Switzerland) by Leon Levy and his brothers under the name Léon Lévy Frères Manufactures des Montres et Chronographes Pierce SA. In 1910 they already employed 1,500 employees - when at the same time approximately 24,000 inhabitants lived in Biel. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_40 German watch manufacturer The founder and namesake of the company, Stefan Kudoke, was born in Frankfurt (Oder), on September 18, [1978]. From 1995 to 1998, he completed a training as a watchmaker at jeweler watchmaker Hoffmann in Frankfurt (Oder) and Glashütte in Saxony. Since July text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_41 Vulcain --- Swiss watch manufacturer In 1858 Maurice Ditisheim founded his own company in La Chaux-de-Fonds. In his studio he made fine pocket watch, which he sold under his own name. His watches were characterized mainly by precision and quality. The workshop quickly grew to Manufacture Ditisheim text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_42 A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte/Sa. On the day exactly 145 years after the founding of the company in Glashütte the great-grandson of Ferdinand Adolph Lange, Walter Lange, takes up the lost traditional heritage of his family again. On 7 December 1990 he founds the Lange Uhren GmbH. 1991 the LMH, which owns, among others, the watch manufacturer text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_43 Rainer Brand --- German watch manufacturer Rainer Brand, founder and owner of the watch manufacturer Rainer Brand, was born in August 1962. Like his ancestors, namely his father and grandfather, he was an independent-minded, very self-reliant spirit, who had always known that he would do something quite unique and creative. So he got the idea to engage in the watch industry, not by imitation of a professional career of his ancestors, but as an voluntary vocation. First by starting a training in… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_44 IWC - International Watch Co. Schaffhausen Distinctive originals of horology, that is the undisputed specialty of the watch manufacture IWC Schaffhausen The famous Da Vinci with perpetual calendar for example, as well as the Grande Complication, which was the first of this type for the wrist. But also the super- text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_45 Chronoswiss - German watch manufacturer In 1982 the watchmaker Gerd-Rüdiger Lang founded this company in Munich. Chronoswiss is specialized on mechanical wristwatches with Swiss quality movements by ETA as well as on the basis of old calibre stocks by Enicar and Marvin. Also two own calibres are made. Since text/html 2023-11-13T10:18:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_46 Xemex - Swiss watch manufacturer Xemex was founded 1996 by Designer Ruedi Külling and marketing specialist Hanspeter Hanschick. The story of Ruedi Külling is that of a successful idealist. 1935 born, he worked first as a successful advertiser and graphic designer. During this period he created memorable advertising campaigns for brands such as text/html 2022-11-26T10:42:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_47 Blancpain - Swiss watch manufacturer Jehan-Jacques Blancpain founded this company 1735 in Villeret. Until 1932, when Frederic Emile Blancpain died at the age of 69 years, Blancpain has been family owned. In the 1920s and 1930s, Blancpain manufactured the first watches with automatic winding in series production. These models had the sonorous name „ text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_48 Vacheron Constantin - Swiss watch manufacturer Jean-Marc Vacheron founded an own watch workshop in the Geneva district of Saint Gervais in the said year of 1755. In 1785 his son Abraham took over the then still small company. The manufactured watches were delivered to the nobility and clergy, as well as to wealthy merchants. With the French Revolution, the sales situation deteriorated dramatically and Abraham Vacheron found himself confronted with numerous problems. He married and attached to h… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_49 Hublot - Swiss watch manufacturer In 1980 the Italian Carlo Crocco founded the watch manufacturer MDM Genève. He developed a watch in a style not seen so far The luxury housing was made ​​of gold held with 12 titanium screws, and the bracelet was in black rubber. According to the shape of the watch it was called text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_50 Patek Philippe - Swiss watch manufacture On 1 May 1839 the watch manufacture Patek, Czapek & Co. is founded in Geneva by two Polish immigrants, the businessman and aristocrat Antoine Norbert count de Patek and the watchmaker Francois Czapek. Because of differences between the two the co-operation does not continue. The latter continues the company text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_51 Rolex SA - Swiss watch manufacture After an education in business Hans Wilsdorf, born 1900 in the Franconian Kulmbach, leaves Germany in order to work as an employee for an import/export business in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Three years later he moves to London and, together with the case manufacturer Davis, founds the watches wholesale text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_brand_of_the_week_52 Longines - Swiss watch manufacturer In the year 1832 Auguste Agassiz opens a watch trade with fabrication in the Swiss Saint-Imier together with the watch dealer Henri Raiguel and Florian Morel. Agassiz shows their durable watches “in the style of Saint-Imier” at exhibitions throughout Europe and quickly acquires a reputation. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_01 A. Lange & Söhne Lange Tourbograph „Pour le Mérite“ Luxury watch by A. Lange & Söhne To mark the 15th anniversary of the reestablishment of A. Lange & Söhne, at December 7th, 2005 the traditional Glashütte manufacture with the Tourbograph “Pour le Mérite” presented a watch of superlatives to demonstrate their skills and their watchmaking brilliance in a kind of representative cross-section. For the first time in watchmaking history a watch unites the following refinements in the dimensions of … text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_02 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore “Safari” Luxurious sports watch by Audemars Piguet Masculine chronograph from the (time-limited) “Themes” series of the Royal Oak Offshore and certainly one of the most beautiful models of manufacture Audemars Piguet. With its striking case in stainless steel, the beige dial with an elegant honeycomb pattern and the brown crocodile leather strap text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_03 Nomos Tangente The company Nomos owes its good start and its fast growing reputation their first model called Tangente, which is a true classic of the modern watch. Its appearance is shaped in a decisive way by the designer Susanne Günther. In its basic concept of a clear, factual, easy to read and functional watch flowed impulses both from the Bauhaus and also from the Deutscher Werkbund - the latter was located not far from text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_04 Patek Philippe World Time There are many different editions of this watch, many of them unique. On 14 April 2002 a model of the World Time in platinum from the year 1946 scored a price of more than 6.5 million CHF in Geneva and thus took the record for the most expensive wristwatch sold at an auction text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_05 Bulova Accutron One of the most remarkable achievements of the company Bulova was the electronic tuning-fork watch Accutron, developed by Max Hetzel since 1953 and put on the market in 1960. The tuning-fork oscillated at 360 oscillations per second (Hz), much faster than the balance wheel found in a mechanical watch (2.5-5.0 Hz). This increased the accuracy of the movement, allowing Bulova to guarantee a maximum deviation of +/- 60 seconds per month. This was far better than competing mechanica… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_06 Piaget Polo Chronograph In the 1970s the Piaget Polo was a cult watch and was re-edited in the fall of 2006 in an updated form as automatic watch. The striking stripes emphasize the fine satin housing. The dial impresses by the sting indices and arabic numerals, in addition a special focus is put on the larger section of the date display. The movement can be admired through the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_07 Sinn 900 Hummer This expedition watch by Sinn is a special edition of the Sinn 900. With its special features, this model is addressed to people who love adventure Extremely robust stainless steel case with scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, 24 hours scale with second timezone and compass function, tachymeter for speeds up to 600 km/h, shockproof and equipped with a text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_08 TAG Heuer Carrera The now legendary Carrera, which was launched 1964 on the occasion of the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico, the then most dangerous road race in the world, is the first chronograph specifically developed for the time measurement of car racing and thus a true classic. In addition to the functionality and ease of handling also the elegant and timeless design of this watch with its large, perfectly legible silver dial was impressing. The above picture shows one of the first models,… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_09 Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Equation of Time This wristwatch is a very costly luxury model of Audemars Piguet, equipped with an abundance of complications equation of time, sunrise and sunset times, perpetual calendar and astronomical moon phase indication. The equation of time shows the difference between the true solar time and the mathematical mean time. Due to the elliptical orbit, the two times match only on 15 April, 14 June, 1 September and 24 December. On all other days, the differe… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_10 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Submariner After many experiments 1953 the first special wristwatch for divers was brought to market by Rolex --- the Submariner. Initially, the water resistance was only guaranteed up to 100 m. Over the years this model was then constantly refined. Thus, text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_11 Patek Philippe Ref. 5101P “10 Day Tourbillon” This 2003 presented masterpiece from the Geneva manufacture for the first time brings together in a small space two complications that claim usually plenty of space a series-connected double barrel for 10 days power reserve and a tourbillon, which turns around its own axis once per minute behind the caseback with text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_12 Breitling Chronomat In 1942 Breitling for the first time presented the model Chronomat, a chronograph with a slide rule and manual winding, which was officially introduced at the U.S. Army Air Force. By the way, the name combines “chronograph” with “mathematics” --- not “automatic text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_13 IWC Pilot's Watch UTC Back in the 1930 years IWC outfitted a watch type specifically for aviation. The abbreviation UTC stands for Universal Time Coordinated. For travelers who in quick succession change continents and time-zones or communicate around the globe, it offers a practical help to inform with their 24-hour indication window on the universal time, based on the globally binding text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_14 Zenith Chronomaster T Open Successor to the Zenith El Primero Chronomaster. Since Zenith operates under the umbrella of the LVMH Group, with the new “Open” dial design the watch enthusiast is allowed a front view of the legendary movement El Primero, a better opportunity to closer experience the hitherto hidden slumbering mechanical finesse. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_15 Patek Philippe Calatrava The Calatrava is an elegant men's watch and watch range by Patek Philippe. Patek Philippe presented this model already in 1932. It is named after a knights order which was founded 1158 in the city of Calatrava by the abbot Raimondo. This model series has been one of the classics of text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_16 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Explorer II The Explorer II was presented by Rolex in 1971 as an addition to the 1954 model Explorer I. It features an additional 24-hour indication that can also be used as a second time-zone. This 24-hour indication, among other things, has been designed with regard to professional cavers, for whom a reliable temporal orientation independent of the outside world is of the utmost importance. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_17 Vacheron Constantin Tour de L'Ile In 2005 the manufacture Vacheron Constantin celebrated its 250th anniversary - in 1755 it had been established. For this special occasion this valuable and extremely expensive watch was presented, which is equipped with 11 hands and, as by then most complicated text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_18 The Royal Oak is a luxurious sports watch by Audemars Piguet, and has now become the template of a whole, widespread watch range. Characteristic of this watch designed by Gérald Genta, which entered 1972 the market as “the world's first luxury sports watch”, is the screwed, octagonal case and the integrated metal band. First, the Royal Oak was launched with the extra flat automatic calibre text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_19 Patek Philippe Chronographe Automatique The Annual Calendar Chronograph Ref. 5960P is an automatic chronograph by Patek Philippe. In 2006 this column wheel chronograph with automatic winding, annual calendar, day/night indicator and flyback function was presented. The display of the usual counters is positioned merely at an auxiliary dial at 6 o'clock, where color differences between numerals and hands make for easy reading. Three windows in the upper half of the dial indicate day of the week,… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_20 TAG Heuer Monaco Steve McQueen Edition Wristwatch by TAG Heuer In the course of return to their classics TAG Heuer brought out this legendary sports chronograph in 1998 as a second model of the series Classics. It is the re-edition of the 1969 launched watch, worn by Steve McQueen in his legendary film text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_21 IWC Destriero Scafusia Luxury watch by IWC with numerous complications At the 125-year anniversary of IWC in 1993 the “Il Destriero Scafusia” (in English The Warhorse from Schaffhausen) was presented. It united a grand total of 22 highly complex functions. It was limited to 125 pieces and sold out fast text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_22 A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 This is the classic of A. Lange & Söhne, which at the new beginning of the brand in 1994 caused great excitement both among experts in the industry as well as among the enthusiastic audience. The watch has been awarded more prizes than any other in this period, including text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_23 Blancpain 1735 Complication watch by Blancpain The “1735” by Blancpain, named after the foundation year of the manufacture, was presented at the end of 1990 at international press conferences. It combined all complications known to date in one single watch. It had an ultra-thin movement, a perpetual calendar with text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_24 Omega Seamaster Professional Chrono Diver Diver's chronograph by Omega This model, especially in the luxury version with the material combination of titanium/tantalum/rose gold, as flagship of a new series of striking, large-sized models, helped the world-famous brand Omega in the 1990s after a period of Sleeping Beauty to attain a furious comeback. The new watches not only gained attention by a convincing design, but also through maximum production quality and by a compelling price-performanc… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_25 Breitling Montbrillant 1903 The pilot's chronograph Montbrillant by Breitling is a chronograph from the Navitimer series with classic appeal. Current models of this series are chronometer-certified. In 2003 a jubilee edition of the Montbrillant was published to the 100-year anniversary of the start of flying On December 17, text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_26 Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso The Reverso was introduced to the market in 1931 by LeCoultre, designed as a response to adversity For polo-playing British officers in India it was always a great annoyance when the delicate crystals of their wristwatches were broken during the competition. The watch importer text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_27 Cartier Santos Wristwatch by Cartier This famous rectangular wristwatch model was developed 1906 by Louis Cartier for his friend, the Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont and came on the market in 1911 with movements by Jaeger. The Santos is considered the first pilot's watch. In addition it made the wristwatch, which was previously reserved mostly for women, also socially acceptable for men text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_28 IWC Pilot's Watch Mark XVI Its “historic” godfather, the Pilot's Watch Mark XI, was one of the most famous pilot's watches at all. In a grueling flight suitability test of the German magazine “Uhrenmagazin” (Watch Magazine) in September 2000 its immediate predecessor, the Pilot's Watch Mark XV, asserted itself with assurance against ten of the best text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_29 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Air-King Automatic wristwatch by Rolex Lowest-cost model from Rolex, but at the usual high production quality and resilience of this manufacturer. Therefore without compromise recommended as an entry model. Meanwhile, the external appearance of the watch was slightly adapted to contemporary tastes. The watch is available in numerous colors text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_30 Nomos Tangomat Automatic wristwatch by Nomos After Nomos over several years had created an outstanding reputation with its elegant and contemporary manual winding watches, especially with the classic Tangente, they proceeded to to gradually refine the movements still obtained from ETA-Peseux. This culminated in the ambitious project to develop a complete in-house designed and manufactured text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_31 Fortis B-42 Flieger (Flyer) Chronograph Alarm Chronograph by Fortis Sporty and elegant at the same time, this pilot's chronograph is equipped with a self-winding movement and an integrated alarm function. This construction of an automatic chronograph with integrated mechanical alarm function was developed by the Zürich watch artist text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_32 Glashütte Original Alfred Helwig Tourbillon 2 Luxury watch by Glashütte Original Alfred Helwig, professor at the German Watchmaker School Glashütte, wrote watch history in 1930 with the development of the first "flying" tourbillon. To his honor Glashütte Original in 2001 launched this luxury model for enthusiastic watch connaisseurs that finished 3rd at the election text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_33 Breitling Navitimer Model range by Breitling The aviator chronograph Navitimer, a further development of the Chronomat, was brought onto the market by Breitling in 1952 and since then has become a well-known and popular watch classic. In comparison with the Chronomat it has an even more complex text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_34 Chronoswiss Régulateur The German watchmaker Gerd-Rüdiger Lang had the brilliant idea to transfer the regulator principle to the wristwatch. His watch model Régulateur from 1987 laid the foundation for the success of his company Chronoswiss. Since then wristwatch regulators are also produced by many other brands text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_35 Patek Philippe Nautilus Sports watch by Patek Philippe This legendary sports watch by Patek Philippe, designed by the famous watches designer Gérald Genta, in 1976 excited by its combination of luxury and stainless steel. Its design is inspired by the shape of ship portholes. The new Nautilus Ref. 5711/1 in text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_36 Jacques Etoile Atlantis Dive watch by Jacques Etoile The model Atlantis a robust dive watch is offered, has solid properties in all expected and even more aspects a well crafted case, an excellent readability, good luminosity of the hands in the dark, an additional magnetic field protection of soft iron, impressive text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_37 Girard-Perregaux Richeville Day-Night Wristwatch by Girard-Perregaux The series Richeville of Girard-Perregaux is characterized by the tonneau form of the case. The model Richeville Jour-Nuit attracts attention by its unusual display features. It features a 24-hours ring, which rotates counter-clockwise. It replaces the conventional hours hand. An arrow above the brand logo indicates the hour. The 24-hour ring also differs between day and night. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_38 Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos The Atmos is a mechanical table clock with rotating pendulum, where the spring is wound using the thermal expansion of a suitable liquid. The system of an auto-dynamic watch was presented already by Friedrich Ritter von Lössl in 1880 to the public, who for this received a patent from the Imperial Patent Office. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_39 Chronoswiss Lunar Chronograph This automatic chronograph is one of the timeless classics from Chronoswiss, where, faithful to the corporate philosophy of the founder Gerd-Rüdiger Lang, everything breathes quality down to the smallest detail. It offers a high-quality, beautifully guilloché dial in 925 sterling silver, in which the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_40 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer The Rolex Explorer I is an expedition watch developed by Rolex on the occasion of the British Mount Everest Expedition in 1954. The watch has a self-winding movement with chronometer certificate. Even today, this watch offers inside and outside a sound quality and convinces by its ruggedness and restrained elegance. The legibility of the dial is superior. The Explorer I is not nearly as well known as other Rolex models, however it is suitable especially for not … text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_41 Girard-Perregaux 1966 Wristwatch by Girard-Perregaux The name of the collection Girard-Perregaux 1966 is reminiscent of the many innovations of the manufacture from the 1960 years, for example in 1965 the development of a mechanical precision movement with the then unheard frequency of 36,000, which was awarded in the following year the Centenary Prize of the text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_42 Baume & Mercier William Baume Collection Classima Executives Red Gold Info about the watch as well as images of other models >>> more >>> text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_43 Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 Astronomical wristwatch with manual winding and tourbillon by Patek Philippe. This is the most complicated wristwatch in regular production by Patek Philippe up to 2001 and the first wristwatch of the manufacture with double-sided display. The movement consists of 686 components, which are finished and mounted by hand text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_44 Chronoswiss Kairos Chronograph In accordance with the stated theme of Chronoswiss leader Gerd-Rüdiger Lang “All of my watches are 100 years slow”, this high-quality timepiece, which is inspired by the classical watchmaking of the 19th century, uses all available means of a previously granted, but today extraordinary skill. And with its text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_45 Temption Classic Automatic chronograph by Temption. In his series of modern, well-readable watches, manufactured in the highest production quality, the company owner Klaus Ulbrich offers with this model the style “Pure Chronograph” Everything about this watch serves its function, subordinates itself, but just in this way also an object of a certain character and charm is created. No object of prestige and facade, but a handcrafted product, which strives for the best possible response to the re… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_46 Breitling Bentley Le Mans Chronograph by Breitling with self-winding movement. On the occasion of cooperation with the car manufacturer Bentley (Breitling for Bentley), Breitling developed with this model so far its largest chronograph. By moving the attachment of the Speed bracelet into the case inlet, where it connects at the lugs with a jetty, the watch fits easily on most wrists. text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_47 Xemex Avenue Automatic Chronograph Chronograph by Xemex with self-winding movement. With this model the famous Swiss designer Ruedi Külling has created one of his classics. It epitomizes his design theory “Simplify, objectify, clarify”. In addition to the round model Offroad, which is specifically tailored to the circular shape, the line text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_48 Longines Lindbergh - hour angle watch by Longines The American aviation pioneer Charles A. Lindbergh, who in 1927 had been the first to cross the Atlantic from New York to Paris with a single-engine airplane (“Spirit of St. Louis”), because of his experience with the problem of rapid position detection consulted the watch company text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_49 Bell & Ross Aeronavale Sapphire Pilot's chronograph by Bell & Ross Mechanical chronograph, specifically designed for flight operations. Having a strict classical style, this pilot model leans directly to the watches of the pilots of the 50's. The design of this chronograph has been designed according to the principle of clarity of the instruments on board, which were then built into the cockpits text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_50 Blancpain Léman Répétition Minutes Aqua Lung Complication watch von Blancpain With the “Léman Répétition Minutes Aqualung” (ref. 2835) Blancpain presented at the Baselworld 2007 one of the most demanding complications of watchmaking - the minute repeater - in a waterproof version. The minute repeater in a wristwatch is a challenge for every master watchmaker. Here it is not only important to place a percussion mechanism, which can be heard at hours, quarter hours and minutes, in a confined sp… text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_51 Hublot Big Bang Wristwatch range by Hublot This chronograph has been designed by the watch visionary Jean-Claude Biver and was published on the market in April 2004. It won prizes right away in watch and design competitions and caught the attention of the audience. With it the message of text/html 2022-07-03T13:31:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.watch-wiki.net/doku.php?id=template:template_watch_model_of_the_week_52 Omega Speedmaster Professional --- “Moon Watch” Chronograph by Omega The Speedmaster is a wristwatch with chronograph function by Omega, which was put on the market in 1957 and was then equipped with the manual winding movement 27 CHRO of 1942. In 1965 the Speedmaster was selected by the NASA as the official