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...Ocean. Their [[Omega Speedmaster Professional]] watches played a key role timing the burn that saved the craft. ...[Basel Fair|BASEL 86]], the first time they are allowed at the prestigious Swiss fair. ...

'''Longines''' is a Swiss watch manufacturer, currently part of the [[Swatch Group]]'s High Range div ...z, Auguste| Auguste Agassiz]] opened a watch trade with fabrication in the Swiss [[Saint-Imier]] together with the watch dealer [[Raiguel, Henri|Henri Raigu ...

...té de Microélectronique et d ' Horlogerie SA") was the name for a group of Swiss watch manufacturers formed by the merger of [[ASUAG]] and [[SSIH]]. Now kno * Services: [[Asulab]], [[CDNP]], [[SMH-VW]], [[ICB]], [[Swiss Timing]], [[SMH Management Services]], [[SMH Immobilien]], [[Columna]] ...

...eles [[1932]] for measuring time, when Omega was in charge of the official timing for the first time. The new chronographs bear the Omega logo customary with *Omega-Uhren. Kaleidoskop einer bekannten Swiss Marke; Author: Anton Kreuzer; ISBN 3853783546 ...

...d watches follows the spread of knowledge from France and Germany to the [[Swiss Jura]] region. It revolves around three classical complications: chimes, ch == Non-Timing Complications == ...

The Swiss '''Swatch Group''' is the largest [[watch trust]] worldwide. ...ming from watches and jewelry. This equates to just over 1/3 of the entire Swiss watch and jewelry industry. The company claims over 37,100 worldwide employ ...

...aux-de-Fonds]] from [[1901]] through [[1924]]. The firm was descended from Swiss-American businessman [[Prosper Nordmann]]'s [[1897]] establishment of a fac ...eaters and chronographs. Nordmann registered patents with other pioneering Swiss and American watchmakers, including [[Henry-Alfred Lugrin]], [[Charles Morl ...

Swiss engineer Max Hetzel developed the [[tuning fork]] concept after joining [[B ...h]]es. Where [[quartz movement]]s excite a vibration in quartz crystal for timing, the Accutron instead used electromagnets acting on a [[tuning fork]]. This ...

...pring carrier in place. It requires a specially-designed key to adjust the timing of the balance. :Escapement: [[Swiss lever escapement]] ...

Henri Gustave Thiébaud was the director of the Swiss [[Gruen]] and [[Frey & Co]] watchmaking companies from the 1930s through th ...er was ended by a plane crash which caused a lung lasion, He has aided the Swiss government materially during the present war period by continuing to train ...

...y met in America, Charles Alfred Barbezat (1875-1938) of [[Le Locle]]. The Swiss operation became an SA in [[1920]]. ...[[Huguenin Frères]] of [[Le Locle]], which patented the case in [[1928]] (Swiss patent 43381). It had an outer case to protect the watch from dust or damag ...

...1960s and suffered as the price for chronographs fell and the value of the Swiss franc rose. Excelsior Park remained independent even as competitors like [[ ...y also produced "Compteurs de sport" (30-minute [[stopwatch]]es) and other timing devices. Jeanneret-Brehm purchased the [[Magnenat-LeCoultre]] factory in [[ ...

:IW5026-09 "Swiss Fine Timing" (2009) [[Rose gold]] case, black dial with white markers, riveted black le ...

** Home to Swiss Timing since [[2006]] ...

...-Fonds]] watchmaker and regulator famous for his invention of an ingenious timing machine in the 1880s as well as for promoting [[Invar]], the material inven ...on in La Chaux-de-Fonds and served as a member of the jury at the [[1883]] Swiss national exhibition in Zurich. ...

Jean d'Eve is a Swiss watch brand associated with Le Phare. It traces its roots to [[1888]] and t ...t-Baillot afterwards. The company soon earned a Grand Honorary Diploma for Swiss exhibitors in Amsterdam alongside [[Patek Philippe]]. It was represented by ...

...golf timers in the 1920s. In the 1930s, Pedos specialized in measuring and timing devices, including the calculigraphe, a 26 ligne calculation watch which re ...e same office that housed the renewed Pedos and Ollendorf. In [[1941]] the Swiss federal government provided a grant to resolve the issue of [[dissident wat ...

'''TAG Heuer''' is a Swiss watch manufacturer, currently part of the [[LVMH]] group. ...evelopment of new models and directs the brand consistently towards sports timing and a sporty image. Heuer becomes the epitome of time measurement in car ra ...

...to build the family firm's reputation, capitalizing on the capabilities of Swiss craftsmen to produce and assemble high-end watches in the [[etablisseur]] t As American watchmaking industrialized, prominent watchmaking firms in the Swiss Jura joined forces as the [[Societe Intercantonale des Industries du Jura]] ...