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)

Ulysse Nardin is a watch manufacturer founded in 1846 in Le Locle, Switzerland. Historically Ulysse Nardin was best known for being a manufacturer of marine chronometers, but today Ulysse Nardin produces ...

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)

Jaeger-LeCoultre (JLC) is a luxury watch and clock manufacturer based in Le Sentier (in Le Chenit), Vaud, Switzerland. In 1833 Antoine LeCoultre (1803-1881) founded a small workshop, which was to become ...

7. Blancpain
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

Blancpain is a Swiss watch manufacturer, founded in 1735 by Jehan-Jaques Blancpain. Blancpain was saved from near bankruptcy by Jean-Claude Biver, an executive with Omega. Blancpain is owned by the Swatch ...

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)

... crystal boules. Because of its remarkable hardness sapphire is used in many applications, including infrared optical components, watch crystals, high-durability windows, and wafers for the deposition of ...

11. Shreve, Crump and Low
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

Shreve, Crump, & Low ia arguably the oldest jeweler in America. Their roots can be traced back to 1796 when watchmaker and silversmith John MacFarlane opened a novelty shop at 51 Marlborough Street, ...

12. 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 ...

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

(1837 - present) Venerable Chicago jeweler. In 1837, Elijah Peacock opened Chicago’s first retail jewelry and watch shop. At that time, Chicago was still a frontier town; the entrance of such an establishment ...

14. Bulgari
(Manufacturers/Greek Jewelers)

... a watchful eye over its designs. Constantino studied ancient silversmithing techniques, researching and writing about the history of silver production in Italy. As the third generation of Bulgari children ...

15. William Asprey
(Manufacturers/English Jewelers)

... watchmaking, and metalsmithing skills to work. At first, William specialized in dressing cases. In 1859, he acquired a company with a royal warrant to fabricate dressing cases for Queen Victoria. Several ...

16. 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 ...

17. Edwardian Era Jewelry
(History/Antique Periods)

... for the era and still collectible today, are hatpins, watch fobs, and stickpins. Hatpins, of course, were necessary for the Edwardian lady to secure her large hats. Watch fobs can be found in abundance ...

18. Late Victorian Period
(History/Antique Periods)

... Georgian and Victorian eras, endured until the 1920's and were worn hooked over the waistband of a dress or apron. Originally, they were made as ornaments to hold a watch on a chain, sometimes with decorative ...

19. 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 ...

20. Early Victorian Period
(History/Antique Periods)

... went on in various countries, and languages - which can make deciphering the code tricky. "MIZPAH", a word taken from the Bible, means, "The Lord watch over me and thee when we are parted one from the ...