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38 relations: Allgemeine Gesellschaft der Schweizerischen Uhrenindustrie, Automatic watch, Balance spring, Breitling SA, Canton of Solothurn, Chronograph, Coaxial escapement, COSC, Ernst Thomke, Escapement, ETA (separatist group), Eterna, France, General Watch Co, George Daniels (watchmaker), Grenchen, International Watch Company, Lemania, List of ETA Movements, Manufacture d'horlogerie, Mechanical watch, Monopoly, Movement (clockwork), Nivarox, Omega SA, PDF, Privately held company, Quartz clock, Richemont, Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie, Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère, Swatch, Switzerland, The Swatch Group, Tissot, Valjoux, Vertical integration, Watch.
Allgemeine Gesellschaft der Schweizerischen Uhrenindustrie
Allgemeine Schweizerische Uhrenindustrie AG (ASUAG; French: Société générale de l'industrie horlogère suisse SA) was the former biggest Swiss Watch Industry Group that had been created with the assistance of the Swiss Government and the Swiss Banks, as an answer to the crisis caused by the Great Depression, in 1931.
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Automatic watch
An automatic or self-winding watch is a mechanical watch in which the mainspring is wound automatically as a result of the natural motion of the wearer to provide energy to run the watch, making manual winding unnecessary.
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Balance spring
A balance spring, or hairspring, is a spring attached to the balance wheel in mechanical timepieces.
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Breitling SA
Breitling SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Grenchen, Switzerland.
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Canton of Solothurn
The canton of Solothurn, also canton of Soleure (German) is a canton of Switzerland.
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Chronograph
A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch.
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Coaxial escapement
The coaxial escapement is a type of modern watch escapement mechanism invented by English watchmaker George Daniels.
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COSC
COSC is Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres, the Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute, which is the institute responsible for certifying the accuracy and precision of wristwatches in Switzerland.
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Ernst Thomke
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Escapement
An escapement is a device in mechanical watches and clocks that transfers energy to the timekeeping element (the "impulse action") and allows the number of its oscillations to be counted (the "locking action").
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ETA (separatist group)
ETA, an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Basque Homeland and Liberty"), was an armed leftist Basque nationalist and separatist organization in the Basque Country (in northern Spain and southwestern France).
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Eterna
Eterna is a Swiss luxury watch company founded in Grenchen, Canton Solothurn on 7 November 1856 by Josef Girard and Urs Schild.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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General Watch Co
General Watch Co. (GWC) was the watch companies Holding of ASUAG.
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George Daniels (watchmaker)
George Daniels, CBE, DSc, FBHI, FSA, AHCI (19 August 1926 – 21 October 2011) was a British horologist who was considered to be the best in the world during his lifetime.
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Grenchen
Grenchen (Granges) is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
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International Watch Company
International Watch Co., also known as IWC, is a luxury Swiss watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and founded by American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868.
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Lemania
Lemania was a Swiss watch manufacturer and manufacturer of watch movements.
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List of ETA Movements
ETA SA is the largest consortium of Swiss watchmakers.
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Manufacture d'horlogerie
Manufacture d'horlogerie (meaning "watchmaking manufacturer") is a French language term of horology that has also been adopted in English language as a loanword.
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Mechanical watch
A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to modern quartz watches which function electronically.
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Monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos and πωλεῖν pōleîn) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.
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Movement (clockwork)
In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber, is the mechanism of a clock or watch, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time.
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Nivarox
Nivarox (full business name Nivarox - FAR SA) is a Swiss company formed by a merger in 1984 between Nivarox SA and Fabriques d'Assortiments Réunis (FAR).
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Omega SA
Omega SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Privately held company
A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.
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Quartz clock
A quartz clock is a clock that uses an electronic oscillator that is regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time.
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Richemont
Compagnie Financière Richemont SA is a Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by South African businessman Johann Rupert.
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Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie
Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie was the original name of the new holding company issued from the merger enforced by the Swiss Banks in 1983 of both the SSIH and ASUAG, now The Swatch Group (see). Dr.
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Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère
Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère (SSIH) was the second most important Swiss Watch Group, holding Omega and Tissot.
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Swatch
Swatch (stylized as swatch) is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Nicolas Hayek and a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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The Swatch Group
The Swatch Group AG is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewelry.
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Tissot
Tissot is a Swiss luxury watchmaker.
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Valjoux
Valjoux (for Vallée de Joux, "Joux Valley") is a Swiss manufacturer of mechanical watch movements.
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Vertical integration
In microeconomics and management, vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company.
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Watch
A watch is a timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_SA
