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Jaeger LeCoultre
1833 wurde die Firma in Le Sentier im Vallee de Joux durch Antoine LeCoultre gegruendet. Die Firma schloss sich 1903 mit dem Chronometerfabrikanten aus Paris, Edmond Jaeger, zusammen. Damit war der Grundstein fuer die heute immer noch sehr erfolgreiche Manufaktur Jaeger-LeCoultre gelegt. Aus dieser Zeit stammt auch das flachste Taschenuhrwerk der Welt mit 1.38 mm, welches bis heute nicht unterboten wurde.

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A. Lange & Soehne

Auf den Tag genau 145 Jahre nach der Pioniertat seines Urgrossvaters Adolph Lange kommt Walter Lange am 7. Dezember 1990 nach Glashütte und gruendet ein neues Unternehmen, die Lange Uhren GmbH. Schon bald hat Walter Lange eine Mannschaft der besten Fachkraefte aus Glashuette um sich versammelt. Die Entwicklungsphase beginnt und 1994 kommt die erste Uhr nach der Neugruendung, mit dem grossen Namen «A. Lange & Soehne» auf den Markt. Die Firma waechst kontinuierlich und viele Meisterwerke sind seither entwickelt worden.

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Chopard

Der Name Chopard steht seit 1860 als Synonym für hoechste Qualitaet und Kreativitaet. Wobei innovatives Design, hoechste Technologie und traditionelle Handwerkskunst die Meisterwerke auszeichnen. Viele der Kreationen strahlen eine verspielte Eleganz aus. Mit dem eigenen Werk L.U.C. kehrt die Firma zu ihren Wurzeln, der traditionellen Manufaktur zurueck.

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Vacheron Constantin

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Breguet

If Breguet holds a special place in our cultural heritage, it is because its founder, A.-L. Breguet (1747-1823), set the standard by which all fine watchmaking has since been judged. Today, his heirs at Breguet still make each watch as a model of supreme horological art.
A.-L. Breguet was born in Neuchatel, but it was in Paris that he spent most of his productive life. No aspect of watchmaking escaped his study, and his inventions were as fundamental to horology as they were varied.

His career started with a series of breakthroughs: the development of the successful self-winding perpetuelle watches, the introduction of the gongs for repeating watches and the first shock-protection for balance pivots.

Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie-Antoinette, were early enthusiasts of Breguet’s watchmaking. Each watch from his workshops demonstrated the latest horological improvements in an original movement, mostly fitted with lever or ruby-cylinder escapements that he perfected.
A.-L. Breguet took refuge in Switzerland from the excesses of the French Revolution. He returned to Paris overflowing with the ideas that produced the Breguet balance-spring, his first carriage clock (sold to Bonaparte), the sympathique clock and its dependent watch, the tact watch, and finally the tourbillon, patented in 1801.

Breguet became the indispensable watchmaker to the scientific, military, financial and diplomatic elites of the age. His timepieces ruled the courts of Europe. For his most celebrated clients, Breguet designed exceptional timepieces. For Caroline Murat, queen of Naples, he conceived in 1810 the world's very first wristwatch. Honours saluted his enormous contribution to horology. Appointed to the Board of Longitude and as chronometer-maker to the navy, he entered the Academy of Sciences and received the Legion of Honour from the hands of Louis XVIII.

When he died in 1823, all mourned the architect of the greatest revolution in the science and art of time-keeping.

Today more than ever, its capacity to innovate reflects a brand’s vitality. Breguet’s own creative powers and ingenuity have certainly not declined over time. Driven by Nicolas G. Hayek, they have indeed been amplified, resulting in Breguet filing in eight short years, a number of patent applications exceeding that of its founder’s own inventions.

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Patek Philippe

On May 1st, 1839 two Polish immigrants, Antoni Patek (Businessman) and Franciszek Czapek (Watchmaker) joined forces to found « Patek, Czapek & Cie » in Geneva. In 1844, Mr. Patek met the French watchmaker, Mr. Adrien Philippe in Paris where the latter presented his pioneering  stem winding and setting system by the crown. In 1845 when Czapek decided to leave the company and to continue his activity on his own, the company name changed for « Patek & Cie ». Later on, in 1851 when Mr. Philippe officially associated with the company, it  was rebaptised « Patek Philippe & Cie », before changing once more in 1901 for « Ancienne Manufacture d’Horlogerie Patek Philippe & Cie, S.A. ». In 1932, the company was purchased by Charles and Jean Stern, two brothers owners of a fine dial manufacture in Geneva. Since then, « Patek Philippe S.A. » remains a family owned firm. In 2009 the company presidency was officially transmitted from the 3rd to the 4th generation : Mr. Thierry Stern became president and his father Mr. Philippe Stern, Honorary president.

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PIAGET

Since its foundation in 1874, Piaget has been cultivating a spirit of luxury while emphasising its creativity, attention to detail and fully integrated watchmaking and jewellery expertise. Originally specialised in the design and production of watch movements, the Manufacture expanded the scope of its expertise in the 1960s with the launch of astonishing jewellery watches, followed by innovative jewellery collections. Expressing the spirit of the times, Piaget's watch and jewellery designs embody the eternal quest for technical mastery, transformed by boldness, expertise and imagination.

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The Da Vinci Family — always a little ahead of its time

Leonardo da Vinci was much celebrated as an artist, scientist and builder of fortifications during his lifetime. But it was only in the 19th century that people slowly began to understand how far ahead of his time he was. For Leonardo da Vinci, the entire known world was a platform for his imagination and love of experimentation. The genius from the tiny village of Vinci invented objects such as the helicopter, the armour-plated vehicle, a three-barrelled cannon, the bicycle, the parachute and even a diving apparatus. None of these items could be built with the technologies and production methods available back then. In the course of a Da Vinci exhibition initiated by IWC, a mechanism that was assumed to have been a form of propulsion for an aircraft turned out to be a precursor for a watch movement – a discovery that attracted worldwide attention.

In the late 1960s, Leonardo da Vinci’s revolutionary way of thinking inspired IWC to introduce a watch named after him. Even that very first Da Vinci model surprised watch lovers with a special quality that has remained typical of the family to this day: that of always being a little ahead of its time. Many trailblazing innovations from IWC have first been developed for use in a Da Vinci, including the revolutionary Beta 21 series quartz movement for wristwatches, unveiled in 1969 as a joint effort by the Swiss watchmaking industry: a quantum leap in IWC’s history of precision measurement. However, the massive influx of cheap quartz movements from the Far East, the oil crisis and the collapse in the price of the dollar against the Swiss franc precipitated the greatest crisis ever experienced by the Swiss watchmaking industry. Despite all this, the classical art of mechanical watchmaking, as found in complicated pocket watches, for instance, remained intact at IWC. So it was that, in 1985, IWC presented a masterpiece of Haute Horlogerie: the Da Vinci as a mechanical chronograph with a perpetual calendar and display showing the year in four digits. Never before in a wristwatch had a gear train converted the enormous distance travelled by the escape wheel into a single movement of the century slide. Its intricate mechanism comprises just 83 components and is extremely simple to use: the displays for the date, day, month, year, decade, century, millennium and phase of the moon can all be set synchronously via the crown.

Just one year later, in 1986, IWC presented a Da Vinci in a high-tech case of coloured ceramic: a world first. To mark the tenth birthday of the Da Vinci Chronograph Automatic, the Da Vinci Rattrapante, Reference 3751, appeared in 1995: its split-seconds hand, which was used to record intermediate times, was also the watch’s tenth. For the millennium, IWC excelled itself yet again and, with the Da Vinci Tourbillon, Reference 3752, scaled new heights in mechanical timekeeping. In much the same way that Leonardo da Vinci had never ceased striving to make things better, IWC opened a new chapter in the history of the legendary watch family in 2007: after years of research, testing and improvement, all Da Vinci models were housed in a distinctive tonneau-shaped case. The IWC-manufactured 89360 calibre was built for the Da Vinci Chronograph from start to finish in Schaffhausen. For the first time ever at IWC, it integrated the “watch-in-watch” principle: in other words, a chronograph that could be read off directly and whose stopped minutes and hours appeared on a display like that of a normal watch. Other highlights in 2007 were the limited edition Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Edition Kurt Klaus – a tribute to the 50th full year of service for IWC by its spiritual father – and the Da Vinci Automatic, whose large date display was extremely well received by IWC devotees.

In 2009, the company’s engineers added yet another outstanding member to the watch family in the form of the Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month: the first flyback chronograph with a perpetual calendar and digital leap year display as well as a digital display for the month and date with large numerals. 2010 saw the arrival of the Da Vinci Chronograph Ceramic, with a surprising combination of ultra-hard ceramic and titanium, both polished and satin-finished. Another eye-catching detail is the three-dimensional dial with its floating chapter ring.

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FROM VINCI TO SCHAFFHAUSEN – A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

Some 558 years ago, a small village in Tuscany saw the birth of a man without whose genius today’s world would be a different place: Leonardo da Vinci. In the 67 years until his death on 2 May 1519, he dreamed up more inventions and machines, and discovered and documented more of the laws of nature than hundreds of his contemporaries and those after them put together.

His lifelong passion was the precise measurement of time. Countless sketches testify to his enthusiasm for the earliest clockworks of the Renaissance. All his groundbreaking inventions, such as gear drives, bevel gears and complicated screw transmission systems, can be found in many machines today, including watches. His work on space-saving spring drives and new escapements, in particular, was pivotal. Posterity is still in awe of the some 6,000 pages of manuscript which he left behind.

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