Hublot is a new brand, but very aggressive in the luxury watch market. It was founded in 1980 by the Italian Carlo Crocco and it was quickly noticed as it conquered much of the luxury watch market. Crocco is the one who created the first natural rubber strap in the history of watchmaking and the one who gave the name of the company, “Hublot”, after the word which in French, called the round window Ship . He introduced the concept of the “Art of Fusion” which refers to the most diverse merge between the latest materials and pioneering techniques with more traditional methods.
In February 2007, Hublot opened the first store in Paris, on Rue Saint-Honoré; and currently there more than 50 stores around the world, from Paris to London, from United States to Ulan Bator, Mongolia and sponsors many activities and athletic teams (Manchester United. Bayern Munich, Juventus Torino, Paris Saint-Germain, Ajax Amsterdam). It was also the official watch to represent Formula 1 in 2010, to the FIFA World Cup 2010 and World Cup 2014. Among the Hublot ambassadors in the world are the Chinese actor Jet Li, the football player Diego Maradona and Formula 1 driver, Ayrton Sena.
Longines or the triumphal march by horologerie
Is the brand with the winged hourglass. Now owned by Swatch Group, the brand is also known for its Longines Ambassadors: Chinese artists Aaron Kwok, Eddie Peng and Lin Chi Ling, Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, The Norwegian skier Aksel Lund Svindal, Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf, some of the greatest tennis players of all time, the Chinese men's team artistic gymnastics, winning every world championships since 2003, Yana Kudryavtseva – the youngest rhythmic gymnast who won the all-around at the World Championships in 2013, at the age of 15, Giulia Steingruber Swiss gymnast, European champion in 2014, Jane Richard – the Swiss rider who had his first victory at the age of 15, and many others.
Since 1832, when it was founded by Auguste Agassiz, the brother of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz, the company has experienced a continuous success. And it participated in the success of others. Already in 1881 the hipique sport in the United States uses the first Longines chronographs sold on the American soil. In 1886 Longines used on most New York sports judges. In 1899 Prince Louis team Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abruzzi, in his expedition to conquer the North Pole. In 1900 it won the Grand Prix at the Paris World Fair with a pocket watch called “The Fame”. In 1912 the Federal Gymnastics Festival in Basel used the first electromechanical sports timing system designed by Longines.
Many sporting events of the 20th century used the Longines chronometers. In 1919 Longines became the official supplier to the International Aeronautical Federation.
After crossed the North Atlantic in 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh devised a navigation instrument that facilitates airmen calculate longitude which, with latitude, gives them their exact location, he says do not achieve at Longines.
Followed other and other inventions and other and other sporting events. Until today.
In 1983 Longines is integrated with SMH (Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking), now renamed the Swatch Group, the world's leading manufacturer of horological products.
IWC Schaffhausen or marriage between Swiss tradition and American entrepreneurship
In 1868 an American engineer and watchmaker, Florentine Ariosto Jones, who was director E.Howard & Co., a watch company in America, Boston, came to Switzerland with the intention to combine the old watchmaking tradition Swiss with modern engineering technology and the United States. In the east of Switzerland, in Schaffhausen, he found the ideal place for his goal. Here he founded the International Watch Company (IWC Schaffhausen), a company that, from the start, committed to manufacture high watchmaking high quality parts. And succeeded. Today IWC Schaffhausen has more than 1,100 employees, including 120 highly qualified watchmakers, and over 900 points of sale worldwide. 60 large cities in the world have a subsidiary IWC Shaffhausen. They can be found in New York, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Geneva, Paris Moscow and all over the world. Since 2000, IWC Schaffhausen has been affiliated with the Swiss group Richemont.
The long and successful tradition of IWC has created six famous collection of watches (aviator watches, Portuguese, Ingenieur, Aquatimer, Da Vinci and Portofino) and several more specialties such as Grande Complication IWC Vintage Collection.
But IWC Shaffhausen is also committed socially where, for example, supports the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation comes to supporting worldwide disadvantaged and disabled children and teenagers. IWC has struggled for the preservation of fauna and flora in the Galapagos Islands. Wherever help is needed, IWC is there.
IWC has been and has remained a happy combination between the American spirit and Swiss precision.
Bvlgari luxury or without borders
The name is Bulgarian. The initiator is Greek, born in a village aroumain, in Epirus, Greece. The company is Italian. And all the watches are manufactured in Switzerland, Neuchâtel. Bvlgari also has hotels and restaurants all over the world: Milan, Tokyo, Osaka, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Dubai, Bali. The seats in the directions are in Rome, on Via Condotti, and in Paris at the Bolevard Madelaine. The luxury … is international.
The initiator, the Greek jeweler Bulgari Sotirio, came to Rome in 1884 and built an empire of luxury and beauty.
Bvlgari jewelry, cosmetics, perfumes, leather goods or accessories are unparalleled. Watches too. Each watch has a strong personality, each watch is a work of art, each watch is the perfection which admits no compromise. Bvlgari watchmakers together engineers, mechanics and artists are the masters of watchmaking expertise.
With 177 stores in 67 countries and 4000 employees of 55 nationalities, Bvlgari is a great and wonderful empire. Isn't it?
Patek Philippe – the saga of a great brand
The company was founded in Geneva in 1839 by two Poles: Antoni Patek and Francois Czapek.
Czapek in 1844 gave way to the French engineer Jean Adrien Philippe Patek met in 1844 at the Universal Exposition in Paris. In 1845 the society Patek Czapek ° C and is dissolved and is based in Geneva . In 1851 the three CEO in the society renamed it Patek Philippe & C °. This then was taken over in 1932 by the Stern family who owns it until today.
As a specialist in high quality, Patek Philippe has created many innovations. In the history of the company inventions were developed constantly: in 1881 the precision regulator, in 1889 the perpetual calendar mechanism, double chronograph in 1902, in 1949 the balance Gyromax in 1959 mechanical watches time schedules, in 1964 the mechanical movement with peripheral rotor, in 1985 the indicator mechanism of the date of Easter in 1996 the annual calendar, in 2000 the astronomical representation mechanism. These inventions preserve the Patek Philippe tradition and ambition: to design and manufacture the best watches in the world.
The successes have arisen from the beginning. Patek Philippe watches were purchased by royalty and the nobility of the world: Russian Princess Zuboff who in 1839 bought a pendant watch, the Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia bought a watch in 1850, Victoria, Queen of England in 1851, Maria Pia, Queen of Portugal, bought several watches between 1865 and 1889, Queen Louise of Denmark, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Russian Emperor Nicolas II, King Alexander I of Serbia, King Rama V of Siam, etc.
Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication pocket watch created for a New York banker is the most expensive watch ever sold at auction: with 11 million in 1999 and with $ 21.3 million in 2014. This watch has worked for half a century the most complicated watch in the world thanks to its 24 watch complications.
The most complicated watch of modern times is also a Patek Philippe: it was manufactured in 1989 to celebrate one hundred and fifty years of existence of the society. It was completed in 9 years, only 5 of which research and 4 embodiment, 33 complications, a diameter of 88.2 mm, a thickness of 41 mm, a total weight of 1100 grams and consisted of 1728 parts. Is a Patek Philippe! bekijk meer replica rolex en franck muller
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