Time To Tell Chronographs for collectors
Time To Tell Chronographs for collectors
iernst | 17 November 2020
By Joël Pynson & Sébastien Chaulmontet. The first watches with date windows began to be mass-produced in the 1930s, particularly at Mimo, with its Mimo-Meter model dating from 1930, and at Helvétia, a brand of the General Watch Co. in Biel, which in 1932 offered an attractive rectangular model with a...
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...
