Swiss clocks
The Swiss clocks are of very good reputation throughout everybody. Because they are of an excellent quality stay in an outstanding position in the world of the jewelry store, being number one world-wide.
The technical quality of the Swiss clocks includes its precision, reliability, resistance to the water and resistance to the blows.
Also they stand out by its aesthetic quality, of original and elegant designs. The Swiss clock of nowadays comes with its at the most new united traditional manufacture in technology.
By more than four centuries, the tradition, crafts, discharges technologies and the permanent innovation, have allowed the Swiss industry of clocks, to maintain their leadership in the world-wide market of the clocks.
The Swiss clocks have been in addition first in many things, like the first resistant quartz clock, wristwatches first, first wristwatch to the water, the thinner wristwatches, smallest, anywhere in the world most expensive of the world, etc.
A little History of the Swiss Clocks
The industry of the Swiss clocks appeared in Geneva in the middle of century XVI.
In 1541, the reforms implanted by Jean Calvin and the prohibition to take jewels, forced to the goldsmiths and other jewelers to give a turn towards a new and independent office: the manufacture of clocks.
At the end of century, the clocks of Geneva already were known by their good quality.
In 1601, the watchmakers created the union of the watchmakers of Geneva, that was first in settling down.
A century later, because Geneva already was saturated of watchmakers, many of them decided to leave the city and to go to the region of Mountains Oath.
The jewelry store in continuous Oath in debt with a called goldsmith Daniel Jeanrichard (1665-1741), who, by the first time, introduced the distribution of manual labor in the creation of clocks. In 1790, Geneva already exported more than 60.000 clocks.
In 1926, the first wristwatch of cord, was created in Grenchen.
At the end of World War I the wristwatch is introduced, which quickly became very popular. Its traditional cleared form was adopted in 1960.
The first electric clocks were introduced later in 1952.
The massive production of clocks began with the arrival of century XX, thanks to the investigation and new technologies introduced by watchmakers of good reputation, like Frédéric Ingold and the Georges Léchot.
The growth in the production, the inner change of parts and the progressive standardization, lead to the Swiss clocks to the supremacy.
Marks of Swiss Clocks
Some of the marks of Swiss clocks are:
Adee Kaye, Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Breguet, Breitling, Bulgari, Cartier, Corum, Corvette, Ebel, Frederique Constant, Geneve, IWC Schaffhausen, Invicta, Jaeger Lecoultre, Luminox, Montblanc, Mauboussin, Paul Picot, Rado, Swatch, Swiss Army, Tissot, Vicence, Wenger, Wittnauer.
Swatch
The Swatch mark is the one that nowadays dominates the industry of the Swiss clocks.
It was created by Nicholas Hayek and thanks to him the Swiss watchmaking industry recovered of the bad moments that happened in years 70.
The Swiss clocks Swatch come with glad designs of colors and their prices are reasonable.
Shortly after leaving to the market, these Swiss clocks already were a success in Switzerland and later in the U.S.A.
In the twenty years since the Swatch was created, 2 have been sent.500 models different from the market and have been sold 300 million clocks.
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