Swatch Watches
In the mid 70s, the Swiss watch industry was in the midst of its worst ever crisis. Technologically speaking, the Japanese competition had been outclassed in 1979 with the launch of the ‘Delirium’, the world’s thinnest wristwatch with a limited number of components.
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Loading ...Kolber and Volvo C30
The brand Kolber will be the partner at the presentation of new Volvo C30 on the 22nd of March. The presentation will be held by the automobile dealer Musa Motors.
“New C30 is a hot car. It is oriented towards a young costumer or towards young couples who lead an active city life. The most important characteristics for them are the car design and how it is running, that’s why they will take great pleasure in driving this car”, says Fredrik Arp, president and CEO of Volvo Cars.
“We are watching the modern life with its richness and furious pace and we transfer the ideas suggested by the life itself to our watches.
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Franck Muller expands
The Franck Muller Group, the Swiss luxury watchmaker, has expanded its “Watchland” headquarters and watchmaking site in Genthod (outside Geneva) by acquiring an adjacent 250-year-old, 30-acre estate for about $14.4 million.
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Tag Heuer Link Automatic Chronograph watches
Easily one of the worldsa€™s most recognized and a renowned manufacturer of sport watches, Tag Heuer is, and always has been, an industry leader in the development of new technology and innovation.
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ORBITA Sempre for the Hand-Wound Watch
“SEMPRE” is the first and only watch winder for virtually any hand-wound mechanical watch. The Sempre watch winder is totally unique in concept, as it replicates the human action of fingers winding a watch crown.
The SEMPRE substitutes a mechanical finger arrangement, called a “collet”, which grasps the watch’s crown securely and rotates it. Several different size collets are provided to fit any watch crown diameter from 3 to 9 millimeters.
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Movado second - quarter sales up 10 percent
Watchmaker Movado Group Inc. on Thursday posted a 9.8 percent increase in net sales in the fiscal second quarter to $126.6 million, compared with $115.3 million in sales during the same period last year. Same-store sales increased 9.3 percent compared with a 2.3 percent rise in the same period last year.
For the quarter, ended July 31, the Paramus, N.J.-based company posted earnings of $11.3 million, a 31 percent increase compared with $8.6 million in earnings during same period of the prior year.
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AWCI Will be a Force at JCK
The American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute will have a strong presence during the various JCK shows in Las Vegas.
The organization will have a 10 by 20-foot booth in the "Hall of Time" area of the JCK Show ~ Las Vegas 2007 (June 1-5, at the Sands Convention Center). A 20-foot long photo mural wall, other graphics and a podium are being provided by Rolex.
AWCI also will have its presence felt during the Swiss Watch by JCK event (June 1-5 at the Venetian Hotel) in the form of a sign outside the exhibit area.
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Leading U.S. watch retailer Tourneau to be sold for $300+ million
Tourneau, Inc., the leading U.S. watch retailer and one of the worlda€™s largest, said Wednesday that it has “a definitive agreement” to be acquired by an investor group led by Green Equity Investors IV, L.P. for more than $300 million. The group, an affiliate of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P., includes members of the Wexler family which has owned Tourneau since 1975, and members of Tourneaua€™s senior management team.
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AWCI Will be a Force at JCK
The American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute will have a strong presence during the various JCK shows in Las Vegas.
The organization will have a 10 by 20-foot booth in the "Hall of Time" area of the JCK Show ~ Las Vegas 2007 (June 1-5, at the Sands Convention Center). A 20-foot long photo mural wall, other graphics and a podium are being provided by Rolex.
AWCI also will have its presence felt during the Swiss Watch by JCK event (June 1-5 at the Venetian Hotel) in the form of a sign outside the exhibit area.
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Swiss watch work force at 25 year high
The workforce of the Swiss watch industry is at its highest number in 25 years, says the latest census of the Employers’ Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (CP). This indicates “an economic sector with the wind in its sails,” said the CP report, which also noted that “the degree of qualification” is becoming more important.
According to CP figures, as of Sept. 30, 2005, the Swiss watch and micro-engineering industry employed 41,728 workers (a 4.3 percent increase).
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