Old watches

George Daniels (19 August 1926 – 21 October 2011) was the only watchmaker known with the ability to create a watch entirely by hand except for the hair spring. He…

ERA is high end luxury American watch company. ERA was founded in 2018 by Michael Galarza and is headquartered in New York City ERA Hyperion a timepiece unlike anything the…

The roots of the EPOS Company date back to 1925. In that year, James Aubert founded the watch company James Aubert SA in the Vallée de Joux, well known as…

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". This company was also…

In the spring of 1864 half a dozen ambitious Chicago businessmen decided that if Massachusetts could build a factory that built watches – Illinois could, too. Harper’s magazine summed their…

Edox watch company was founded in 1884 by a very talented watch maker, Christian Ruefly-Flury in Biel-Bienne. In 1900 he selected, “the Hour Glass” as the official symbol (logo) of…

Three generations of successful watch entrepreneurs Ebel_Founder In 1911 Eugène Blum founds, together with Alice Blum, née Lévy, an etablissage workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds. By combining the first letters of…

ABOUT THOMAS EARNSHAW THOMAS EARNSHAW (1749-1829) born on the 4th of February at Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire near Manchester, England. Thomas Earnshaw is revered as a legend and pioneer in…

In the early 2000s, one of the hottest watch brands in the world was Roger Dubuis, a company that borrowed some of the best historical ideas in watchmaking and made…

It’s not uncommon for watch brands to outsource cases, movements, crystals, straps, etc. to assemble at their base location, and then stamp their name on the dial and call it…

The place: the small town of Le Locle, deep in Switzerland’s Jura Mountains. Already it is known as the cradle of Swiss watchmaking. Georges Ducommun, one of 13 children, is…

The history of Dent & Co. spans three centuries of precision watch and clock making in Great Britain. Established in 1814 by Edward J. Dent, the company embraced the Victorian…

AARON LUFKIN DENNISON (1812-1895) American born A. L. Dennison began his pioneering career in the watch industry by founding Waltham Watch Company. The company grew to become the largest watch…

1862-1902 Fusing timeless elegance with contemporary flair, Cyma timepieces are the descendants of a long tradition of watchmaking that stretches back one-and-a-half centuries. The name Cyma has its roots in…

A young CroatianCubus watch mechanisms company for the production of original watches Cubus was founded in 2009. The company is privately owned by its founder Mijo Tulicic. According to the…

1955: Corum established in La Chaux-de-Fonds In 1924, Gaston Ries opened a watchmaking workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He was joined, in 1955, by his nephew René Bannwart. Together they transformed the workshop…

Chung Name Group is a Hong Kong based company that trace its origins back over 80 years. The founder of the group Mr. Chong Ching Um founded the group in…

2014 At Lucerne Headquarters the House of Chronoswiss will open its doors in summer 2014.  On a walking round tour visitors have the opportunity to observe the watch makers at…

LOUIS-ULYSSE CHOPARD, THE FOUNDER Louis-Ulysse Chopard (1836-1915), the son of a farmer from Sonvilier, quickly conquered Switzerland and the world at the age of 24. The artisan watchmaker created works…

1888 THE SPORT WATCH BRAND IS BORN The brothers Adolf and Alfred Kurth set up their own watch production facility in the Swiss town of Grenchen. In this idyllic spot…

Time Gems Century Time Gems Ltd is headquartered in Nidau, which lies at the heart of the Swiss watchmaking region and is also home to the firm’s production workshops, where…

Casio is a Japanese founded electronic company best known for its cameras, watches, calculators, musical instruments and PDA systems 1946     Kashio Seisakujo founded in Mitaka, Tokyo 1954    First prototype of…

The Cartier Manufacture is one of the largest fully integrated production facilities in Switzerland Cartier was founded in 1847 in Paris by the jeweller Louis-François Cartier, who in 1899 handed…

1,000 sequentially numbered, handmade collectible pieces honoring 50 years of timekeeping innovation is released to public. First electrical watch (The Elgin Grade 725) in 1952. People, at the time, were…