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Omega Skyfall 007
Introducing Daniel Craig: The world’s best-known secret agent, James Bond James Bond has sported an Omega wristwatch since GoldenEye in 1995 and in the five following films he relied on his timepiece throughout numerous action scenes and daredevil feats. In Skyfall, Bond will wear the steel-on-steel Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean…
Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards
Hamilton will host the 6th «Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards» on October 28th, 2012 in Los Angeles. The awards ceremony pays tribute to the talented off-screen heroes who are contributing to make a movie successful. October 28, 2012: Harrison Ford It takes hundreds, sometimes thousands of people to make a movie. Many of them play key roles…
Jaquet Droz – The Bird Repeater
Pierre Jaquet-Droz was above all a child of the Swiss Jura. In these valleys that are still today the cradle of Swiss watchmaking excellence, the sound of birdsong accompanies the cycle of the seasons. At first incorporated in real birdcages, these creations were soon transformed into pocket watches and table clocks of proportions as small as they…
Breguet – Bicentennial of the first Wristwatch
International Event in the Gulf of Naples to celebrate the Bicentennial of the first Wristwatch. 200 years ago, Abraham-Louis Breguet designed the first wristwatch, for a Queen (Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples). In order to pay tribute to this historical piece and its brilliant creator, Breguet flies off to Naples, to where it all began… A…
Swatch Group changes from IFRS back to Swiss GAAP ARR
The Board of Directors of the Swatch Group decided during its meeting today to change the Group's accounting practice: from IFRS back to Swiss GAAP ARR. The change will be implemented on January 1, 2013. Swiss GAAP allows the Swatch Group as a Swiss company to use a recognized accounting practice that is ideal for industrial companies such as the…
17th Asian Games Incheon 2014
Tissot becomes the Official Timekeeper of the 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 Le Locle (Switzerland) / Incheon (South Korea), 27 September 2012 – Tissot, a worldwide leader in the Swiss watch industry, has been named Official Timekeeper of the 17th Asian Games Incheon, which will take place from September 19 to the October 4, 2014, in and around…