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This list is a duplicate of Category:Watchmakers, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Names in this list require an article about the watch brand or watchmaker
Seiko Group Corporation (セイコーグループ株式会社, Seikō Gurūpu kabushiki gaisha), commonly known as Seiko ( / ˈseɪkoʊ / SAY-koh, Japanese: [seːkoː] ), is a Japanese maker of watches, clocks, electronic devices, semiconductors, jewelry, and optical products. Founded in 1881 by Kintarō Hattori in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the ...
Pulsar (watch) A modern analog Pulsar watch. Pulsar is a watch brand and currently a Seiko Watch Corporation of America (SCA) division. Pulsar was the world's first electronic digital watch. Current Pulsar watches are mostly analog and use the same movements in Seikos such as the 7T62 quartz chronograph movement. Pulsar quartz chronograph.
Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (American, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world. [1] [2] It caused a significant decline of ...
General Watch Co: Girard-Perregaux: 1791 [2] Geneva [2] Jean-François Bautte, Mouliné, Constant Girard, Marie Perregaux [2] [3] La Chaux-de-Fonds: Subsidiary Sowind Group: Patrick Pruniaux Glycine (watch) 1913 [1] Biel/Bienne [1] Eugène Meylan [1] Biel/Bienne Subsidiary: Invicta Watch Group: Eyal Lalo (Parent Group CEO), Daniele Andreatta ...
Seiko Group (セイコー・グループ, Seikō Gurūpu) is a Japanese corporate group consisting of three core companies Seiko Group Corp. (Seiko), Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII) and Seiko Epson Corp (Epson). The three companies are linked by a common thread of timepiece technology. Epson has established its own brand image and rarely uses 'Seiko'.
Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which inexpensive, battery-powered, quartz-regulated watches were competing against more established European watchmakers, focused on artisanal craftsmanship ...
Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A., or simply Longines ( French pronunciation: [lɔ̃ʒin] ), is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland. [1] [2] Founded by Auguste Agassiz in 1832, the company has been a subsidiary of the Swiss Swatch Group and its predecessors since 1983. [3] [4] Its winged hourglass logo ...