1. Vacheron Constantin
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

Vacheron Constantin is a Swiss manufacturer of prestige watches and a brand of the Richemont group. It currently employs around 400 people worldwide, most of whom are based in the manufacturing plant; ...

2. Ulysse Nardin
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... complicated mechanical watches. History Founder, watchmaker Ulysse Nardin, was an accomplished watchmaker who studied horology under his father, Leonard-Frederic Nardin, Frederic William Dubois ...

3. Rolex
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

Rolex SA is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches and accessories. Rolex watches are popularly considered status symbols. Rolex is the largest single luxury watch brand by far, producing about 2,000 watches ...

4. Patek Philippe
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

Patek Philippe & Co. is an upscale Swiss watch manufacturer. It is currently owned by the Stern family and is led by Henri Stern and his son. Over the years, Patek Philippe watches have been worn by ...

5. Glashutte
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

Glashütte Original is a German watchmaking company founded in 1994 by the privatisation of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe. This was an East German conglomerate formed in 1951 from the watch companies based ...

6. Jaeger LeCoultre
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... device capable of measuring to the nearest thousandths of a millimeter). The keyless works In 1847, LeCoultre created a revolutionary system that eliminated the need for keys to rewind and set watches. ...

7. Blancpain
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... Group. Nick Hayek, the son of Swatch Group's founder and chairman, Nicolas Hayek runs the company. Blancpain started making watches in 1735 in Villeret, Switzerland. According to their commercial ...

8. Breguet
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

Breguet is a 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 ...

9. A. Lange and Sohne
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

A. Lange & Söhne is a trademark of premier German watchmaking company Lange Uhren GmbH. Its watches rank among the finest in the world and sell in the same general price range as watches made by such ...

10. Sapphires
(Gemstones/Colored Gemstones)

... for spectroscopy, crystals in high quality watches, and windows in grocery store barcode scanners since the material's exceptional hardness makes it very resistant to scratching. Owners of such watches ...

11. Cartier
(Manufacturers/French Jewelers)

... It also has a highly successful collection of watches. Its important gem acquisitions during the twentieth century are numerous. The most notorious of these are the allegedly-cursed Hope diamond, which ...

12. C.D. Peacock
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... into the city was retrospectively lauded as a sign that Chicago was moving from a period of “semi-savage conditions to civilization and refinement.” The store specialized in watches, both making and ...

13. Bulgari
(Manufacturers/Greek Jewelers)

... features molded, white porcelain beads combined with gold and precious stones. During the 1990’s, the firm also expanded its selection to watches. With locations all over the globe, its jewellery remains ...

14. William Asprey
(Manufacturers/English Jewelers)

... gold toothbrushes. It also offers luxury merchandise including clocks, watches, silver objects, china, furniture, daggers, and clothing.  ...

15. Retro Jewelry Era
(History/Antique Periods)

The 1920's & 40's with its economic plunges & WWII; found women filling roles that would normally be men's jobs. Going to work in factories & munitions plants they made trousers acceptable ...

16. Mid Victorian Period
(History/Antique Periods)

... into the design. Another brief jewelry fad around 1885, involved the making of items from the wheel caps of old watches, called Watch Cocks. These round, flat pieces of the chase-work fittings came from ...

17. Georgian Era Jewelry
(History/Antique Periods)

... watches, chains, fobs and jeweled shoe buckles were worn by both sexes. Women would often wear full parures (a set of matching necklace, ring, bracelets, earrings, and tiara, or aigrette,) or demi-parures ...

18. Art Deco Period
(History/Antique Periods)

... Valentino, the film star, helped create popular interest in wristwatches. Made in white gold, yellow gold, or platinum, they were often accented with pave' diamonds, triangular cut sapphires, other cuts ...

19. Antique Jewelry Periods
(Home Page/General)

... elaborate. Large cocktail rings were a staple item as well as bold bracelets, watches and necklaces.  ...

20. Antique Jewelry Periods
(Uncategorised Content)

... and elaborate. Large cocktail rings were a staple item as well as bold bracelets, watches and necklaces.  ...