For its sixtieth anniversary, Candino is treating itself to a second youth with Xenia Tchoumitcheva, the first successor to Miss Switzerland 2006.

A member of the Festina Lotus group since 2002, Candino this year celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. Indeed it was in 1947 that Adolf Flury-Hug, whose family was one of the watchmaking pioneers of the Soleure district of Thal in the late 19th century, founded the company in Herbetswil and then opened a sales office in Biel in 1954. Since then, much water has flowed under the bridge, but the company has remained true to its time-honoured philosophy: to offer Swiss made quality at an affordable price. Equipped with ultra-modern technology the better to preserve its traditional know-how, the Soleure site occupies a floor space of 1,600 m2 and every day produces around 2,000 quartz or mechanical watches which retail at prices ranging from 150 to 1,500 francs.