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The Swatch Group

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The Swatch Group AG is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewelry. [1]

72 relations: Allgemeine Gesellschaft der Schweizerischen Uhrenindustrie, Balance spring, Balance wheel, Balmain (fashion house), Baume et Mercier, Biel/Bienne, Blancpain, Breguet (brand), Bulova, Certina Kurth Frères, Ck Calvin Klein, Daimler AG, EM Microelectronic-Marin, Endura Watch Factory, Equestrianism, Ernst Thomke, Esther Grether, ETA SA, Florida, Formula One, General Watch Co, Glashütte, Glashütte Original, Grenchen, Hamilton Watch Company, Harry Winston, Harry Winston, Inc., Hublot, International Watch Company, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Jaquet-Droz automata, Jewellery, Kuala Lumpur, Longines, LVMH, Manufacturing, Miami, Microsoft, Mido (watch), Nayla Hayek, Nick Hayek Jr., Nicolas Hayek, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Olympic Games, Omega SA, Original equipment manufacturer, Panerai, Pforzheim, Piaget SA, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, ..., Public company, Rado (watchmaker), Ram Mudambi, Renata (battery), Richemont, Shanghai, Smart (marque), Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie, Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère, Stephan Schmidheiny, Swatch, Swatch Internet Time, Swiss franc, Switzerland, TAG Heuer, The Winston Blue, Time zone, Tissot, Tour de France, Vacheron Constantin, Watch, Zenith (watchmaker). Expand index (22 more) »

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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Balance spring

A balance spring, or hairspring, is a spring attached to the balance wheel in mechanical timepieces.

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Balance wheel

A balance wheel, or balance, is the timekeeping device used in mechanical watches and some clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock.

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Balmain (fashion house)

Balmain is a French luxury fashion house that was founded by Pierre Balmain in 1946.

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Baume et Mercier

Baume & Mercier is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1830.

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Biel/Bienne

Biel/Bienne (official bilingual wording;;; Bienna, Bienna, Belna) is a town and a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Blancpain

Blancpain SA designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells prestige and luxury Swiss watches.

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Breguet (brand)

Breguet is a Swatch-owned brand of luxury watches founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775.

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Bulova

Bulova is an American watch brand founded in in 1875 and currently owned by Japanese conglomerate Citizen Watch Co.

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Certina Kurth Frères

Certina S.A. is a Swiss watchmaker founded in Grenchen, 1888, by Adolf and Alfred Kurth, and currently an affiliate company of the Swatch Group.

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Ck Calvin Klein

ck Calvin Klein is a diffusion line of Calvin Klein.

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Daimler AG

Daimler AG is a German multinational automotive corporation.

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EM Microelectronic-Marin

EM Microelectronic-Marin SA, based in Marin near Neuchâtel in Switzerland, is a developer and semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra low power, low voltage integrated circuits for battery-operated and field-powered applications in consumer, automotive and industrial areas.

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Endura Watch Factory

Endura S.A. is Swiss watch manufacturer founded in 1966 by General Watch Company (GWC) in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, for the purpose of manufacturing watches under "private label".

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Equestrianism

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, horseman, horse), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses.

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Ernst Thomke

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Esther Grether

Esther Grether (born c. 1936) is a Swiss art collector and businesswoman.

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ETA SA

ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse (ETA SA Swiss Watch Manufacturer) designs and manufactures quartz watches and both hand-wound and automatic-winding mechanical ébauches and movements.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Formula One

Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.

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General Watch Co

General Watch Co. (GWC) was the watch companies Holding of ASUAG.

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Glashütte

Glashütte is a town in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Free State of Saxony, Germany, which was the birthplace of the German watchmaking industry.

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Glashütte Original

Glashütte Original is a German prestige and luxury watchmaking company founded in 1994 by the privatization of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB).

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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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Hamilton Watch Company

The Hamilton Watch Company is a brand of the Swatch Group, a Swiss watch company based in Bienne, Switzerland.

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Harry Winston

Harry Winston (March 1, 1896December 28, 1978) was an American jeweler.

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Harry Winston, Inc.

Harry Winston, Inc. is an American luxury jeweler and producer of Swiss timepieces.

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Hublot

Hublot is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1980 by Italian Carlo Crocco.

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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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Jaeger-LeCoultre

Jaeger-LeCoultre is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer based in Le Sentier, Switzerland, that dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century, founded by Antoine LeCoultre in 1833.

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Jaquet-Droz automata

The Jaquet-Droz automata, among all the numerous automata built by the Jaquet-Droz family, refer to three doll automata built between 1768 and 1774 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot: the musician, the draughtsman and the writer.

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Jewellery

Jewellery (British English) or jewelry (American English)see American and British spelling differences consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.

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Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur), or commonly known as KL, is the national capital of Malaysia as well as its largest city in the country.

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Longines

Longines, is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland.

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LVMH

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, also known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris.

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Mido (watch)

Mido SA is a Swiss watchmaking company founded in 1918.

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Nayla Hayek

Nayla Hayek (born 1951) is a businesswoman and horse breeding expert.

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Nick Hayek Jr.

Georges Nicolas "Nick" Hayek Jr. (born 23 October 1954) is a Swiss-Lebanese businessman.

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Nicolas Hayek

Nicolas George Hayek (19 February 1928, Beirut – 28 June 2010, Biel/Bienne), was a Swiss-Lebanese entrepreneur, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Swatch Group, with principal headquarters in Biel/Bienne.

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Okmulgee, Oklahoma

Okmulgee is a city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Omega SA

Omega SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

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Original equipment manufacturer

An Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.

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Panerai

Officine Panerai is a luxury Italian watch manufacturer, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. Officine Panerai designs, manufactures and markets watches through authorized dealers and company-owned stores worldwide.

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Pforzheim

Pforzheim is a city of nearly 120,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany.

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Piaget SA

Piaget SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker and jeweller, founded in 1874 by Georges Piaget in the village of La Côte-aux-Fées, which belongs to the Swiss Richemont group, specialists in the luxury goods industry.

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Pierre Jaquet-Droz

Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721–1790) was a watchmaker of the late eighteenth century.

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Public company

A public company, publicly traded company, publicly held company, publicly listed company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.

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Rado (watchmaker)

Rado is a Swiss luxury watchmaking company, with headquarters in Lengnau, Switzerland.

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Ram Mudambi

Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy and Perelman Senior Research Fellow in Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University.

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Renata (battery)

Renata AG SA (Renata Batteries), based in Itingen, Switzerland, is a developer and manufacturer of batteries (particularly coin or ''button'' cells).

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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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Shanghai

Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.

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Smart (marque)

smart is a German automotive marque and division of Daimler AG, based in Böblingen, Germany.

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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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Stephan Schmidheiny

Stephan Ernst Schmidheiny is a Swiss entrepreneur, philanthropist and advocate of sustainable development.

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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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Swatch Internet Time

Swatch Internet Time (or beat time) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of their marketing campaign for their line of "Beat" watches.

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Swiss franc

The franc (sign: Fr. or SFr.; Franken, French and Romansh: franc, franco; code: CHF) is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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TAG Heuer

TAG Heuer S.A. is a Swiss luxury manufacturing company that designs, manufactures and markets watches and fashion accessories, as well as eyewear and mobile phones manufactured under license by other companies and carrying the Tag Heuer brand name.

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The Winston Blue

The Winston Blue is the name given to what was the largest flawless vivid blue diamond bought by Harry Winston, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of The Swatch Group from January 2013) on May 15, 2014, from an anonymous person for $23.8 million at Christie's Geneva Magnificent Jewels sale.

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Time zone

A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.

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Tissot

Tissot is a Swiss luxury watchmaker.

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Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual male multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries.

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Vacheron Constantin

Vacheron Constantin is a luxury Swiss manufacture of prestige watches and a brand of the Richemont group.

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Watch

A watch is a timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.

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Zenith (watchmaker)

Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swatch_Group

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