1980

1979    <<    1980    >>    1981

 

• The Italian Carlo Crocco founds the watch manufacturer MDM Genève, which is later renamed to Hublot, accoding to the best known model of the brand.

• At the climax of the quartz crisis, the creditor banks of the SSIH mandate the marketing specialist Nicolas Hayek to restructure the group.

• Hellmut Wempe dares, with the opening of a Wempe branch in New York's Fifth Avenue, the big step up to the international stage.

• ETA introduces the Delirium IV, which measures just 0.96 mm thick.