Big hour names you “need to know”

Most of our beginner class-loving age can still remember the moment when an acquaintance, colleague, or neighbor waved contemptuously and asked the question that sounded clear to him, “Pfft, don’t you know the Hans-Frederique Breguet de Audemars brand ?!” – as if we should have known about it from somewhere! But now! Now we tap into it and help you navigate a bit on the ground as well, because,Replica vacheron constantin as we said at the very beginning, the world of luxury watches full of great fuss and deep statements has so many interesting connections.

LUXURY GROUP OF COMPANIES
When we see each brand name on the posters, with statements that sound more serious than they are, and year numbers evoking the times before the first light, we have reason to think that we are seeing something special and unique here. While this is partly – and in some cases entirely – the case, it is important to discover the dark material that connects the universe of brands: luxury corporate groups. It is worth knowing these three:

Swatch Group (Swatch)
Compagnie Financière Richemont SA (Richemont)
LVMH Moët Henessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH)
The three of them own most of the watch brands. In addition to them, there are the independent, to whom we classify everyone in class circles who are not members of these three great groups – it is true that there is the Kering group and Girard-Perregaux and Ulysse Nardin, and the recently hibernated JeanRichard (which for some incomprehensible reason they write), but together they make so little traffic that they dwarf far past the big three. So let’s see them now,replica watches then the independent.

SWATCH GROUP
The largest of all, as can be seen in the figure above. Its history is linked to the Swiss watch industry, which was resurrected in the early 1980s and has been experiencing a renaissance since then – during the quartz crisis that lasted for ten years from the early 1970s, Swiss structure and watch manufactories were concentrated in 1-1 separate groups. from the coercion caused by their crisis), it was SSIH and ASUAG, we will talk about them later.

The point is that the Swatch Group and its two dozen brands have not existed incessantly since their designated founding years, but 95% of them have entered virtually complete hibernation – evicted a few employees, or in most cases only registered names in the two as part of a group.

In ’83, SMH, the nickname of the Swatch Group, was established, along with the Swatch watch. Right in the middle of the quartz crisis, the Swiss, blessed with extremely sizeable faces, were pulled out of the chaos by American-Lebanese businessman Nicolas Hayek Sr.replica watches uk when (put simply) he bought the two groups for a pound and with them everything and everyone; from then on, there was no question that they were going to do what he was saying – and his and his little team’s idea was Swatch, a cheap “Second Watch” (which, yes, rhymes with Swiss Watch, but its primary meaning was Second Watch, this is also a little-known fact). Swatch became an orbital success, helping Hayek and his SMH group little by little to resurrect the brands shown in the figure above, nicely in line.

Interestingly, how well-liked these companies were was that a certain Jean-Claude Biver (who, as we shall see, now manages most of the hourly division of the LVMH group of companies) bought Blancpain in 1982 for 22,000 Swiss francs. it sold all the rights to use the historical watch company and its name and then sold it to the Swatch Group for 60,000,000 Swiss francs a round ten years later. Leaving inflation also helps to understand the course of events at today’s exchange rate: the name Blancpain, because there was nothing else behind it, sold for about HUF 6 million in 1982, and then in 1992 found a new owner for about HUF 18 billion, now As part of a swatch. The lesson is that big names like Omega, Blancpain, Jaquet Droz, Glashütte Original and their peers were literally reborn in the early eighties,fake watches after one or more decades of death. Sure, their previous classes and their accomplishments aren’t lost, but let’s read the old dates and historical flashbacks in moderation with tears in their eyes – because if Mr. Biver didn’t buy Blancpaint at the time, who knows, he might live in a thicket today just keep going.

Going into the present: the Swatch Group is, however, one of the most affluent, diverse groups of companies that, owning an ETA structure factory, can be the master of life and death without serving or serving other competing manufacturers.

RICHEMONT
All we have to do is look at the long list of well-sounding names in the Richemont chart (well, Ralph Lauren has more than one interesting thing to work on) and it immediately becomes clear that this group of companies has consciously positioned itself as high as possible – no Swatch or Hamilton opponent, things start up from Baume & Mercier and Ralph Lauren and end somewhere at fake Vacheron Constantin / Roger Dubuis heights. It is important to note that it is now much more difficult to categorize individual brands into a particular price range because while Cartier’s timelessly elegant Tank is now available at a very competitive price and a real heir, they certainly produce many tens of millions of haute horlogerie concept watches.

Interestingly, most of Richemont’s brands – out of their own agitation and / or central command – handled the Chinese / Hong Kong market very greedily, with excessive exposure to a single (albeit huge) market bouncing back hard over the past 1-1.5 years. Also, from a “product” standpoint, imperfection goes on at many resounding Richemont companies, enough to watch Piaget, actually lamenting the brink of bankruptcy, Jaeger-LeC, who is notorious for his incredible diversity and creativity but is now addicted to simple reissues and Reverso clones. ..

… or Vacheron Constantin, who, after doing quite a bit of hard work on the belated remodeling of the Overseas, returned to the photocopying room – thinking that what they had been doing for 80 years could not be bad. Well, the Historiques Triple Calendrier 1942 & 1948, beaten with awkward proportions and carelessly identical indicators,high quality replica watches uk can only win hip-souled money watch lovers with its French name and old years – not the least convincing are the stick figures and even less the ancient structural foundations. tiny windows and date functions that can only be adjusted with corrector buttons … For so much money, with such a vest, it would be appropriate to integrate these things into the crown – but why rethink a structure if people want to show their name and their perceived sophistication through ancient design.

There are also good examples: Panerai is almost toasting with skill in the waters of its two main collections (Luminor and Radiomir), always able to show just as much new as it inspires enthusiasm, making the in-house structure available at a relatively reasonable price, the 3 or 8 days of walking reserve and of course the inimitable form of Panerai so they keep the brand still above water. Montblanc, under the control of Jerome Lambert, in open pricing down, the new Timewalker deserves a receipt – although for us the Nicolas Rieussec collection remains our real favorite. Give it a few more years and this collection will mature among the great old people. Unique, now refined design and patent structure meet – but you dare not to line up in the Omega or Rolex line, but pull the trigger here (and since this price is already included in the price of Ceramic Speedmaster or near steel Daytona,best replica watches sites to buy from many people prefer the safety game they choose – their souls on it, but such a Rieussec chronograph will be an interesting sight in years to come).

LVMH
The smallest of the three giants in terms of hours, but not without the least of these big names: TAG Heuer, Zenith, Hublot and Bulgari are strengthening their line, and of course Louis Vuitton has got a collection of watches that work and clumsy. What is important to know is that the aforementioned Jean-Claude Biver is currently in charge of managing LVMH’s hourly division; after resurrecting Hublot and handing it over to LVMH for a sum of around EUR 500 million,cheap replica watches uk it gradually took over the management of TAG Heuer and then Zenith (while, of course, retaining the reins of Hublot).

This is interesting because this small, now quite well-structured division of LVMH is the only one that performs strongly even when so many of Swatch and Richemont’s brands suffer. This is because someone at LVMH is responsible for managing the three brands (TAG Heuer, Zenith, Hublot) and keeping their balance of power in check – this, of course, required TAG Heuer to make aggressive price reductions over the past 1-2 years on Biver’s instructions. thus bringing it out of the bottom of Hublot and pushing it back to where it belongs: a high-tech, compelling, stylish and competitively priced brand.classical replica watches uk The Aquaracer is already available for well under one million forints and is competitive not only in price but also in its implementation, the Heuer-01 chronograph in 43 or 45 millimeters attacks with an in-house chronograph and modern design in one and a half million, while Monaco remains operated with careful updates. which we know.
Zenith is just now benefiting from Biver’s colossal s * gg kicking process after they weren’t sluggish to dull in recent years. The El Primero is a fantastic chronograph structure, but at the moment we can only recommend the Chronomaster El Primero Open or the classic El Primer from Zenith – we would say the Pilot as well, but there is not much choice in most rugged and smaller sizes that are easier to wear yet ( who has a bigger wrist can choose more easily).

Hublot sits at the top of this pyramid like the absolute master of hourly marketing carpet bombing – you can like it or you hate it, a Hublot model can find it. Sang Bleu or Magic Gold UNICO spice up the watch world in their own way and that’s an objectively good thing.

The Bulgari is a separate story entirely within LVMH, directed by Jean-Christophe Babin, who was led by Biver from the helm of TAG Heuer – a fact known in inner circles that they are not two kiss buddies. Because of this and some other internal LVMH features, Biver has zero say in Bulgari’s hourly home affairs – Bulgari strengthens after his own head, they bought a high-tech case and dial factory per kilo, they make the Octo bracelet themselves and they have a strong base structure. . In addition, they are pretty quiet world recorders with the thinnest automatic mechanism and the thinnest tourbillon – so such performance is gaining recognition from all brands and watch enthusiasts in an age when many may have thought all such records had been pushed to infinity.
INDEPENDENT
This includes everyone who is not the previous three members, but even huge brands from here: the Rolex-Tudor duo (they belong to a tax-exempt foundation in a very deceptive way, this is of course not beaten to a big drum), Patek Philippe, Chopard,UK replica watches Audemars Piguet (although they pull to Richemont), Richard Mille, Breitling (they were recently bought by CVC Capital Partners which to the best of our knowledge does not own another big hour company). Here we note that for the past 17 years, Georges Kern, who managed IWC Schaffhausen and Richemont’s full-hour division earlier this year, took over Breitling – a big shift for him and for Breitling fans to watch for. ..

They are followed by the lesser independent, the comets of the hourly universe, who are able to exist with astonishing, great fuss, but only with tremendous effort. These include MB&F, Urwerk, F.P. Journe, Laurent Ferrier, Greubel Forsey, Ludovic Ballouard, Bovet 1822, Philippe Dufuour – and the little-known Hungarian due to their absolute in-house effort and structure-decoration, but still very low annual production: Áron Becsei or Bexei Watches.
Even so, this post is just long enough, so we close it now, hoping that the above will provide a solid foundation for further acquaintance with the world of the clock and the balance of power.durable copy breitling watches uk There are so many modern and historical names that need to be “known”, but instead of a 200-cell excel spreadsheet, we’re trying to help you get started on this path with the guide above. There will be plenty more to talk about these brands, but now we say goodbye, staying with respect until the next reunion.