In November Richemont reported 53% growth in six month net profit as demand for its watches and jewelry remained strong.
And much like a Formula 1 car, Richard Mille conceives and constructs its watches as an integrated whole for optimum performance.
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Omega sued Costco for selling its watches for prices below suggested retail, citing a tiny Omega logo on the goods that it said gave it the copyright holders power to control how creative works are distributed.
So it came as a surprise to connoisseurs recently when Patek Philippe, a smart Swiss watchmaker, announced that the company was testing silicon inside some of its luxury watches.
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Before long Omega, the reigning Swiss brand, was melting down its gold mechanical watches so it could sell the metal.
But, as San Francisco watches its great banking institution become a colony of the east coast, it may be time for a little more gravitas.
It's better to cannibalize yourself than to have your business devoured by someone else, so Cisco watches its competitors and either beats them or buys them.
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Now the space-sciences division watches for its work popping up in more popular contexts.
Phosphor Reveal marks the world's first mechanical digital watches utilizing its proprietary Micro-Magnetic Mechanical DigitalTM (M3D) technology.
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Movado Group, Inc. designs, manufactures and internationally distributes watches through its brands: Movado, Concord, Ebel and ESQ by Movado.
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The NWS has issued winter storm warnings and watches in its path.
According to Fortune Pebble watch shipped 25, 000 smart watches in its first month of full production (Amazingly the company operates with a full time staff of only 11).
Picking up where its Beepwear line of watches that doubled as pagers left off, Timex has teamed up with pager giant Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people) and pager service SkyTel , a unit of telecom giant WorldCom (nasdaq: WCOM - news - people).
Watchmaker Timex is out to correct that oversight with its line of Internet Messenger Watches set to hit stores in April.
The company closely watches shoppers in its stores for signs of what is and isn't catching on to get its products right.
The brand would no longer produce mechanical watches, but only its interesting quartz-based timepieces that used special interfaces and display systems.
It provides forecasts and graphics showing a storm's location, its predicted path, and areas under watches and warnings.
Inside a frosty church that's opened its doors to the desperate, he watches as they come for emergency handouts of rice, pasta and beans.
Take "The Purple Rose of Cairo, " a Depression-era saga about an abused woman who watches a movie repeatedly until its hero comes down off the screen and romances her.
The Swatch Group said Monday that it will end its partnership with Tiffany to make branded watches for the luxury jeweler and will seek compensation for the loss of business.
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Based on a thin-display technology called Electrowetting, Liquavista will attempt to integrate its products into DAPs, cellphones, watches, and other portable devices where high brightness and rapid refresh rates are valued (which is like, all of them).
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Alpina recently revisited its past to create a new line of watches called the Startimer Pilot collection.
And they have not slashed prices for Hublot's watches, as they have with those of its rivals (watchmakers get only about a third of the final selling price of a watch).
The company applied its materials know-how to making tiny circuit boards for early digital watches.
Every one of Journe's new watches starts with his mental image of the dial, not its mechanics.
For French jeweler Boucheron, who asked him to propose a design to celebrate its 150th anniversary, Mille came up with a predictably outrageous idea: 30 watches whose internal workings would be made from different precious stones.
No arguments: this is "The Daddy" of sport watches, around for 60 years, but continually refined to this, its current commercial apotheosis.
It evolved over the decades beyond its stainless-steel, time-only-display origins into a family of watches in various metals and hosting the most extreme of complications.
Montblanc, the German brand known for its luxury writing instruments but also manufactures and sells luxury leather goods, jewelry and watches, is listed separately by Richemont.
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