Time To Tell Chronographs for collectors
Time To Tell Chronographs for collectors
jpynson | 1 October 2016
Who still has the 1970s chronographs from Hamilton in mind? Set apart in the shadows by Breitling and Heuer watches, however Hamilton played a crucial role in the launch of the famous Chronomatic calibre. The brand’s flagship model at that time was the Fontainebleau – named after a famous French...
jpynson | 10 June 2016
The idea of a merger between the SSIH and ASUAG had been in the air since 1980 when the Swiss Federal Council had encouraged a partnership agreement between the two companies. Moreover, in 1981, SSIH sold their quartz division to ETA. Nicolas Hayek's strategy was based on a marketing structure that...
jpynson | 5 June 2016
SSIH was created on February 24th, 1930 from the merger of Louis Brandt and Frères SA, the Omega Watch Co. in Bienne, and Fabrique d'Horlogerie Charles Tissot et Fils in Le Locle – ‘Manufactures’ who need no further introduction. During the difficult period of 1930 SSIH rationalized their movement blank factories...
jpynson | 26 May 2016
Between 1945 and 1960 the Swiss watch industry experienced fifteen years of almost continuous growth. Annual production of watches and movements more than doubled, from 18.8 to 41 million units. Protective measures prohibiting the creation of new movement blank factories were extended in the early 1950s and later relaxed. But what...
