Watchchrono articles http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag.htm en Copyright 2013 Watchchrono http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 02:57:04 +0100 contact@watchchrono.com (Watchchrono.com) Sat, 25 May 2013 02:57:04 +0100 watchchrono.com Product variety was the particular strength of Angélus, a business which the Stolz brothers brought into being in 1891 ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-angelus-history.htm 8a68db05bb4617cf7bdc2901679a28d7 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 There are encounters between people that turn out to be so stimulating and profound that they make history. Thus it was between two young men, ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-audemars-piguet-history.htm 164500d002b98f88d1e1b2a806a792d9 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 The calendar showed the year 1735 when Jehan-Jacques Blancpain turned to the craft of watchmaking in his farm-house in the village of Villeret on the banks of the river Suze. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-blancpain-history.htm cccc8bc3d6630bf84a08f9ba361baea0 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 It would take a whole book to list ail the achievements of the genius reverently proclaimed as the watchmaker who condensed two centuries of watchmaking into just fifty years. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-breguet-history.htm c2e38e55597ae43748ae552b614f5317 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Even as an apprentice watchmaker he was obsessed by the idea of further developing the measurement of short periods of time with the help of special watches. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-breitling-history.htm 9d4352b8bf376c4349188c5cf26699b8 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 The value of the wristwatch as an item of jewelry probably occurred to Giorgio and Cotantino Bulgari, jewelers in Rome, sometime... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-bulgari-history.htm 78d9e995ba160f4e2aa540095e87d365 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:32:03 +0100 The secret of Cartier's horology lies in its perfection of forms designed with a jeweller's eye combined with sophisticated technology. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-cartier-the-watchmaker.htm 3c0d8d9b8a1bdd4eca72ef03f6151254 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 The Chopard family tree records the birth on 4 May 1836 of a boy named Louis-Ulysse, who spent the next years of his life in the village of Sonvillier, ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-chopard-history.htm 28b0eb6a294557fe2f4b242741083a2a Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Watchmaker Jean-François Bautte signed his first watches in Geneva in 791, the year Washington (DC) was founded as capital of the United States. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-girard-perregaux-history.htm cd365d8672d1b3932cd4357f1b2b057e Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:49:20 +0100 Watches were the lcast concern of saddle-maker Thierry Hermès when he set up a small backyard workshop in 1837 to make saddles and bridles. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-hermes-history.htm 728eef66ed28de18b6fde6cc4aaf874c Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Wouldn't it be marvelous to be able to experience the rich diversity of activities taking place on planet Earth both with hindsight and foresight; ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-iwc-history.htm 5394c8765bf72ecb92711a1e6f9b8783 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:43:39 +0100 The eventful history of the LeCoultre Company has its origins in 1833. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-jaeger-lecoultre-history.htm 8136aba13e6cb914b2bc8d865a027e01 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Ferdinand Adolph Lange had a simple reason for settling in the village of Glashütte in 1845. He wanted to help reduce unemployment. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-lange-sohne-history.htm e90b327c1ceca11f1a44a8bcf58af34c Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 The founder of the firm was a Frenchman born in Alsace, and he was called Emmanuel Lipmann. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-lip-history.htm 021ed42efda232c8b396e590360a5b89 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 He was a man who seemed to embody the pioneering spirit. On 14 August 1832, this 23-year-old ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-longines-history.htm 898dc2c947cee718e4afd7dfcb2f1a09 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Omega : Flightmaster http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-omega-flightmaster.htm 54df5e38455d75e5c0e2c55f40f825fa Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:32:59 +0100 It was in 1848 that the 23-year-old Louis Brandt opened a comptoir d'établissage, a sales office for sub-contracted watch manufacture. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-omega-history.htm 5176e3222f668231f94c94103c7330e4 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Movement number and Date ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-omega-movement-number-and-date.htm 540bd55a2cf295b8ea9cd78650e89d03 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Omega : Seamaster Chronograph http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-omega-seamaster-chronograph.htm 5f55a6ece505a982f1ea0f396442bf23 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 1839 : On May 1, Antoine Norbert de Patek and Francois Czapek founded the firm Patek, Czapek & Co. in Geneva, with head offices located at 29, Quai des Bergues. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-patek-philippe-history.htm 2c4189a6213986088de094a5623ec98b Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Movements number, Dates and Calibers ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-patek-philippe-movements-number-dates-and-calibers.htm d1f06d78c49ae2f50ed110bf71b14d5d Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 3700 So-called "JUMBO" ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-patek-philippe-nautilus.htm 99cb58d2d19256c97a9055c0675bcb27 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 The story of a family of extraordinary pocket and wristwatches created by Patek Philippe at the request of a noted Rio de Janeiro jeweler ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-patek-philippe-the-legend-of-chronometro-gondolo.htm 926abae84a4bd33c834bc6b981b8cf30 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Looking back on it, the road taken by the House of Piaget, from its modest beginnings ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-piaget-history.htm 97bc5e668896d17a0120151e809ae1a7 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Clasp Codes ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-clasp-codes.htm 96a0b02d02f54f8e48dad3d9b69a2016 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 1970 - 1973 Submariner Ref: 5513 with valve. (80 Ex.) ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-comex.htm 147768d3955e38c4e662c0a95d807abc Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Country codes ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-country-codes.htm dba756de0b61be1f920b97c5ae43fa23 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Cases number and date ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-dates.htm 096ec814d2392f379695f30ca7041977 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 The early years of Hans Wilsdorf, born on 22 March 1881 in the North Bavarian town of Kulmbach, were distinctly lacking in lucky omens. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-history.htm f96816687580650f672ee11621c47dcb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Sea-Dweller Double Red ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-sea-dweller-double-red.htm c9df945f744f1f5927f66cf11a8a990f Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Sea-Dweller Rail Dial ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-sea-dweller-rail-dial.htm 1d0d2cade49078f9d43bbdfab67abbc0 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Info Red Submariner ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-rolex-submariner-red.htm 5e9167571c4fdf5f5bceabb11ca7d4c9 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Edouard Heuer, just 20 years old, lacked nothing when it came to creativity and business sense. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-tag-heuer-history.htm ddd8b970c97a77fa74c14951f486f62b Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:20 +0100 The daily turnover in 1837 of the shop selling gifts and writing articles opened by Charles Lewis Tiffany ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-tiffany-co-history.htm 96fd0b319802304d48a45170b917cd27 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Hans Wilsdorf, founder of Rolex, undoubtedly ranks among the champions of brand-marketing in the watch industry. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-tudor-history.htm c3b86052d1fc94bd11c279a17f3f25e1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Léonard Frédéric was the first Nardin to take up watchmaking, but he was yet to put his name to his timepieces. The first to do so, in 1846, ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-ulysse-nardin-history.htm 2a66acbc1c39026b5d70457bb71b142b Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 Descombes & Perret was the name of the new star in the galaxy of watch companies that rose over the Jura town of Le Locle in 1894. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-universal-history.htm 7d7c45b9a935cf9d845fc75679a41559 Wed, 27 May 2009 17:52:19 +0100 The definitive name of one of the oldest Swiss watch brands, like that of many others, only came into being through the association of two personalities. ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-vacheron-constantin-history.htm b323b8172b421577bf8e70d411d79a50 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100 In Le Locle, where the small world of Switzerland seems to come to an abrupt end where the mountains crowd together and France is just a stone's throw away, ... http://www.watchchrono.com/EN/mag-zenith-history.htm bbe9047444895de971dcc65fe7f9504f Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0100