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The Swatch Group, the Glossary

The Swatch Group Ltd is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewellery.^[1]

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Holding companies established in 1983
Holding companies of Switzerland
Luxury brand holding companies
Manufacturing companies established in 1983
Swiss companies established in 1983
Watchmaking conglomerates

A. Lange & Söhne

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Allgemeine Gesellschaft der Schweizerischen Uhrenindustrie

Allgemeine Schweizerische Uhrenindustrie AG (ASUAG; French: Société Générale de l'Horlogerie 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 small clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock.

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Balmain (fashion house)

Pierre Balmain S.A., trading as Balmain, is a French luxury fashion house that was founded by Pierre Balmain (1914–1982) in 1945.

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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; German: Biel, French: Bienne;,; local dialect; Bienna; Bienna; Belna) is a bilingual city in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Blancpain

Blancpain SA is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer, headquartered in Paudex/Le Brassus, Switzerland.

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Breguet (brand)

Breguet is a Swiss luxury watch, clock and jewelry manufacturer founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775.

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Bulova

Bulova is an American timepiece manufacturing company that was founded in 1875 and has been owned by Japanese multinational conglomerate Citizen Watch Co. since 2008. The Swatch Group and Bulova are watchmaking conglomerates.

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Canton of Bern

The canton of Bern, or Berne (Kanton Bern; canton de Berne; Chantun Berna; Canton Berna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Certina

Certina S.A. is a Swiss watch brand, part of the Swatch Group, founded in Grenchen in 1888 by Adolf and Alfred Kurth.

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Electronics

Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.

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EM Microelectronic

EM Microelectronic, based in Marin, La Tène 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'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.

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Ernst Thomke

Ernst Thomke (born 21 April 1939) is a Swiss physicist and watchmaker.

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Esther Grether

Esther Grether (nee Kast, born) 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 is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Formula One

Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

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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 Saxony, Germany, known as the birthplace of the German watchmaking industry and has a population of about 7,000.

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Glashütte Original

Glashütte Original is a German producer of luxury watches founded in 1994 by the privatization of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB), an East German conglomerate formed in 1951 from the watch companies based in Glashütte.

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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 Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland.

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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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IWC Schaffhausen

IWC International Watch Co.

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Jaeger-LeCoultre

Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre SA, or simply Jaeger-LeCoultre, is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer founded by Antoine LeCoultre in 1833 and is based in Le Sentier, Switzerland.

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Jewellery

Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of 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; 吉隆坡联邦直辖区; கோலாலம்பூர் கூட்டரசு பிரதேசம்) and colloquially referred to as KL, is a federal territory and the capital city of Malaysia.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers.

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List of watch manufacturers

This list is a duplicate of:Category:Watchmakers, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete.

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Longines

Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A., or simply Longines, is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland.

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LVMH

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, commonly known as LVMH, is a French multinational holding company and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris. The Swatch Group and LVMH are luxury brand holding companies and watchmaking conglomerates.

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Mercedes-Benz Group

The Mercedes-Benz Group AG (previously named Daimler-Benz, DaimlerChrysler and Daimler) is a German multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mido (watch)

Mido SA is a manufacturer of Swiss luxury watches.

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Nayla Hayek

Nayla Hayek (born 1951) is a Swiss heiress, businesswoman and horse breeder.

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Nick Hayek Jr.

Georges Nicolas Hayek Jr. (born 23 October 1954) is a Swiss businessman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Swiss-based Swatch Group.

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Nicolas Hayek

Nicolas George Hayek (19 February 1928 – 28 June 2010) was a Swiss businessman of Lebanese descent, and the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of The Swatch Group.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the 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 generally perceived as a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.

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Panerai

Officine Panerai (also known simply as Panerai) is an Italian luxury 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 over 125,000 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.

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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 is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.

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Quartz clock

Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time.

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Quartz crisis

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.

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Rado (watchmaker)

Rado is a luxury Swiss watch brand owned by the Swatch Group.

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Ram Mudambi

Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy 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 S.A., commonly known as Richemont, is a Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by South African businessman Johann Rupert. The Swatch Group and Richemont are companies listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, holding companies of Switzerland, luxury brand holding companies, multinational companies headquartered in Switzerland and watchmaking conglomerates.

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Roger Dubuis

Roger Dubuis is a Swiss watch manufacturer of luxury watches based in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Smart (marque)

Smart (stylized in lowercase) is a German automotive marque established in 1994.

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Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie

Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie was the name of the holding company created by the merger enforced by the Swiss Banks in 1983 of the SSIH and ASUAG, renamed The Swatch Group in 1998.

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Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère

Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère (SSIH) is a former group of Swiss watchmakers comprising the brands Omega, Tissot and Lemania.

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Stephan Schmidheiny

Stephan Ernst Schmidheiny (born 29 October 1947) is a Swiss businessman, industrialist and philanthropist.

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Swatch

Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. The Swatch Group and Swatch are manufacturing companies established in 1983 and Swiss companies established in 1983.

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Swatch Internet Time

Swatch Internet Time is a decimal time system 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 Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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TAG Heuer

TAG Heuer S.A., founded Heuer AG is a Swiss luxury watchmaker.

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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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References

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

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See also

Holding companies established in 1983

Holding companies of Switzerland

Luxury brand holding companies

Manufacturing companies established in 1983

Swiss companies established in 1983

Watchmaking conglomerates

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