Rolex SA, is a Swiss luxury watchmaker, and was co founded, in which year, by Hans Wilsdorf, a German watchmaker, and the founder of noted watch brands Rolex and Tudor?
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Rolex Rolex SA ( ) is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company and its subsidiary Montres Tudor SA design, manufacture, distribute and service wristwatches sold under the Rolex and Tudor brands. Founded by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis in London, England in 1905 as Wilsdorf and Davis, Rolex moved its base of operations to Geneva, Switzerland in 1919.
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Hans Wilsdorf Hans Wilsdorf (March 22, 1881 - July 6, 1960) was a German watchmaker, and the founder of noted watch brands Rolex and Tudor.
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Gruen Watch Co. The Gruen Watch Company was formerly one of the largest watch manufacturers in the United States. It was in business from about 1894 to 1958 and was based in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1908 by German-born watchmaker Dietrich Grün, who changed the spelling of his name to "Gruen" because the letter ü does not exist in English.
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Rado (watchmaker) Rado is a Swiss watchmaking company, with headquarters in Lengnau, Switzerland. Today the company produces about half a million watches a year with a staff of about 470 in total.
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Aletta Stas Aletta Stas-Bax (born 1965) is a Dutch entrepreneur and author. In 1988, she founded together with Peter Stas the watch company Frederique Constant. The "manufacture's" initial strategy was to focus its energy on classical luxury watches at an affordable price. The Accessible Luxury positioning was the basis of strong growth during the financial crisis when consumers came back more to classical values and accessible prices.
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Watch Shop Watch Shop is a UK online watch retailer. Established in 2007, it was acquired by the UK’s largest luxury jeweller, Aurum Holdings Ltd., in 2014. It carries high-street and designer watches and jewellery from brands including Raymond Weil, Coach, and Frédérique Constant.
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Fanny Moser Fanny Moser (29 July 1848 Winterthur, Switzerland—2 April 1925 Zurich, born Baroness Fanny Louise von Sulzer-Wart and known as Emmy von N. in Freud's study) was a Swiss noblewoman who at one point was known as the richest woman in Eastern Europe. She was one of the five women evaluated in Freud's "Studies on Hysteria", which led to his psychoanalytic theories. Her father, Baron Heinrich von Sulzer-Wart had inherited his title from her grandfather, Johann Heinrich von Sulzer-Wart, who had been awarded a peerage for service to Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. On 28 December 1870, she married Swiss watchmaker and industrialist , who had made a fortune by developing high-quality watches to sell on the Russian market. H. Moser & Co. then expanded to include a factory in Switzerland and Heinrich founded a railway company in Schaffhausen, furthering his wealth.
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Dominique Loiseau Dominique Loiseau (February 16, 1949 – 18 September 2013) was a French and Swiss watchmaker who worked at the highest levels of complex horology from the mid 1970s onwards He was the creator of several notable timepieces, including six Montres de Sables, the Rose de Temps clock, the Renaissance or Capriccio pocket watches and the Blancpain 1735 wristwatch. In 2011 he presented, the Loiseau 1f4, one of the most complicated automatic watches with eight patents. Loiseau announced in 2012 a collaboration with Swiss watch manufacturer Girard-Perregaux.
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Cyma Watches Cyma SA is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury wristwatches, founded by brothers Joseph and Theodore Schwob in 1862. By 1908, Cyma were advertising the resilience of their automatic timepieces when exposed to electricity, magnetism and varying temperatures. The company is currently owned by Stelux International, Ltd. a Hong Kong-based holdings firm which invests primarily in fine jewellery and watches, and is overseen by fellow "Fédération de L'industrie Horlogère Suisse" member Universal Genève.
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Rolex Trophy The Rolex Trophy is a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour, that is played in Geneva, Switzerland. It has been held annually since 1991.
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Breguet (brand) Breguet is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland.
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Rolex Yacht-Master II The Rolex Yacht-Master II is a sport watch made by Rolex, unveiled in 2007 and first introduced in March 2010 with the models 116688 (Yellow Gold) and 116689 (White Gold). One year later, in 2011, Rolex introduced model 116681 which was made from steel and everose gold. At Baselworld 2013, the watch was available for the first time in 904L steel, model 116680, fitted with a Cerachrom bezel insert in blue ceramic. Originally the Yacht-Master II used Rolex's 4160 movement but with the introduction of model 116680 in 2013, the movement was updated to the 4161 movement specifically designed for the Yacht-Master II. All Yacht-Master II watches have a case size of 44mm.
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Thierry Hermès Thierry Hermès (1801-1878) was a German-born French businessman. He was the founder of high fashion brand Hermès International.
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Samuel Smith (watchmaker) Samuel Smith was the founder of Smiths Group, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering businesses.
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Zino Davidoff Group The Zino Davidoff Group (Zino Davidoff SA) is a Swiss family business founded in 1980 and active exclusively in the luxury segment offering a wide portfolio of products. The company owns and manages the brand Davidoff for watches, leather goods, writing instruments, men’s and women’s fashion accessories such as ties, foulards and cufflinks, fragrances, eyewear, coffee and cognac.
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A. Lange &amp; Söhne A. Lange & Söhne is a German maker of high quality and prestige watches.
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Pequignet Pequignet is an independent luxury watchmaking manufacture based in Morteau, France. Founded by Emile Pequignet in 1973, the company is owned now by two entrepreneurs: Philippe Spruch and Laurent Katz.
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Memorigin Memorigin is a Hong Kong manufactured watch brand, which was founded by William Shum in 2011. The brand specializes in tourbillion watches, which are often associated with luxury Swiss watch brands. The tourbillion movement is only manufactured in a handful of factories worldwide, traditionally retailing at high five or six figure prices (USD). Memorigin's founder decided that he could produce a quality mid-range tourbillion, which he would sell directly into the growing Chinese watch market.
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Halda Halda was founded in 1887 by Henning Hammarlund in Svängsta and was a Swedish manufacturer of pocketwatches. In 2009, Halda was given new life at the initiative of the watch entrepreneur and engineer Mikael Sandström
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Era Watch Company Montres Edox et Visa SA is a Swiss manufacture of luxury wristwatches that operates under the "Era Watch Company". Christian Ruefli-Flury, a watchmaker originating from Grenchen, Switzerland, founded the company in 1884 in Biel/Bienne. Edox has remained in continuous production since their foundation.
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Accurist Accurist Watches Ltd is an English watch manufacturer, headquartered in Leicestershire.
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Basler (fashion) Basler is a German fashion brand founded in Berlin, Germany in 1936.