History of Watch Brands

Casio

Casio is a manufacturer of electronic products, founded in 1946 in Japan, based in the city of Tokyo. As well as being famous for the placing on the market of the first fully electronic compact calculator, is also among the world giants with regard to the production of wristwatches, in particular, is a leader in the field of digital watches LCD. To establish the Casio was Kashio Todao, born in Japan in 1917 in the town of Nankoku City, which was then known Kureta-mura.

Initially, the company name was Kashio Seisakujo then become Casio. A historic date that marked the success of the Casio in the world is the month of December 1954 with the construction of the first prototype of a compact all-electronic calculator, the Casio 14-A, which will be marketed in 1957.

During the sixties, the company has begun to expand the horizons of their business by building factories in the rest of the country Nippon. In 1974 began the production of wrist watches, which will then be consolidated by bringing Casio at the top with the placing on the market of the G-Shock watch fully digital and able to withstand the impact.

Seiko

Seiko Watches was founded in Japan in 1881 by Kintaro Hattori, and is the oldest Japanese society manufacturer of watches. The company’s focus has been addressed from the very beginning to the production of automatic mechanical watches, becoming a true leader in this particular sector. In 1969, another great record was achieved by Seiko: produced the first watch in the world named Seiko Quartz Astron 35 SQ.

In the last few years is monopolizing the attention of customers loyal to the clocks based on mechanical mechanisms patenting and commercializing clocks based on the so-called Kinetic movement. It is a mechanism that allows to recharge the watch by an oscillating mass that unlike what happened in the past, does not interact with a spring but puts in motion a very small generator which in turn charges the battery. Seiko, reflecting its position in the market, it is also listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Sector

Sector is an Italian leading manufacturer of watches, founded in 1973 in Naples with its deed from the family Giardiello which among other things was the owner of another well-known brand operating in the same sector. The administrative headquarters and production company was created by Neuchatel in Switzerland, remaining so until the early years of this decade with the transfer of ownership from the family Giardiello Opera Group, which head the giant BVLGARI.

Since then, the venue has become Lugano. During the eighties and nineties, the Sector watches were alongside extraordinary feats of sportsmen who have challenged the limits of physics and nature. Even now, the Sector pays particular attention to the quality of its products but also addressing an audience not exactly sporty but still loves challenges.

Festina

Festina is a watch manufacturing company founded in Switzerland in 1902, specifically in the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchatel. In 1984 he was captured by the entrepreneur Spaniard Miguel Rodriguez, giving rise to the Festina Group Lotus. The head office is moved from Switzerland to Spain in the city of Barcelona, ​​thus beginning an important growth path in terms of business.

In 1993 he opened a branch of the Festina Group Lotus in France and the following year in Italy. In 1996 he opened a branch in Switzerland and at the same time begins the marketing of Festina watches in the United States. In 1999 he launched a line of products made exclusively of gold (Festina Gold) which will be followed in the new millennium many other lines. Festina has become a major sponsor partner of the Tour de France.

Bulova

Bulova is a prestigious and historic watch brand founded in 1870 at the age of 19 by Joseph Bulova, American-born Bohemian in New York City and for precision in Manhattan. In 1912, noting that the demand for watches was growing in an important way on the other side of the ocean, he decided to open a plant in Switzerland. In 1919, he launched on the market a full line of watches for men and rubies in the early twenties had the great idea to advertise your brand, creating the classic clock signal.

Always innovative, Joseph Bulova with the advent of television in the United States, already in 1941 decided to launch advertising campaigns with the very first that was first broadcast of a sporting event in July. In the following years, the brand has always been synonymous of technological advancement in the United States as is evidenced by the fact that a Bulova watch model has been adopted since the sixties by the Air Force One. Today, Bulova is a sister brand independent of Citizen Watch Company.