Manufacture d'horlogerie
As a watchmaker manufacturers of mechanical watches are known, which produce both the movement as well as other essential parts of a watch yourself.
In contrast to watchmakers an essential part of the manufacturers of mechanical watches will equip their products with movements of other manufacturers. The term therefore watchmaker represents a small group among the many providers dar. watch manufacturers mostly produce itself, so that the supply chain remains mostly in the company and a greater independence from the supply of rough movements (French: Ébauches ) is achieved by competitors. The definition of the Association of Swiss watch manufacturer called " factories which manufacture almost all the clock " as a watchmaker, but this definition applies only to Swiss manufacturers. The term is often used for promotional reasons of the watch manufacturers.
However, the term watchmaker makes no statement about the quality or the price of the watches, as manufacturers of quality watches in the 20th century mainly établisseurs, that were exclusive processor of rough movements, such as Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin, and manufacturer cheaper watches with partly copied works such as Tianjin Seagull also meet the criterion. Likewise, the term if all watches offered by these homes are also equipped with their own movements. In addition, the majority of the watch manufacturers buy their spirals an external. Therefore, it often is in the designation watch manufacturer to a marketing term.
With restrictions also manufacturers can be referred to as watchmakers, although they provide a significant portion of their models with works from other manufacturers, but also have their own works. These resources include Breitling, Chopard and Franck Muller. Cartier used to date the work of Jaeger- LeCoultre and Piaget, presented since 2009, but also "own" works to attain the status of a watchmaker, with which also belongs to the Richemont Group company, however, relies on the resources and expertise of Roger Dubuis.
Uhrenmanufakturen
- Audemars Piguet
- Blancpain
- Breguet
- Breitling
- Carl F. Bucherer
- Cartier
- Chopard
- Citizen Watch
- Girard -Perregaux
- Glashütte Original
- Hublot
- IWC
- A. Lange & Söhne
- Maurice Lacroix
- Mont Blanc
- Nomos
- Parmigiani Fleurier SA
- Patek Philippe
- Orient
- Piaget
- Poljot
- Roger Dubuis
- Rolex
- Seiko
- TAG Heuer
- Tianjin Seagull
- Ulysse Nardin
- Vacheron Constantin
- Vostok
- Zenith