Three new watch manufacturers this month

Charles Gigandet is a general manufacturer based in Tramelan that produced numerous chronographs in the 1970s, as well as watches that competed with Swatch. It is also known for supplying chronographs to the American manufacturer Wakmann.

Its history can be found here.

Teriam is a unique company in the history of Swiss watch manufacturers. It produced millions of watches, but relatively few under its own name, as it mainly supplied other companies with watches and movements, including Ébauches SA. It disappeared with the quartz crisis.

Its history can be found here.

Created during the Roskopf watch boom in the 1950s, Ilona was unable to withstand the collapse in prices during the "quartz crisis."

That is where its story lies.