Cimier
Montres Cimier SA , is an independent Swiss watch manufacturer based in Biel . Cimier designs, develops and assembles its watch itself, largely personalized works are partly used with modifications. The company also makes quartz watches .
history
The origins of Cimier go back to 1924, when the watchmaker Joseph Lapanouse founded the watch manufacturer Lapanouse SA in Hölstein (BL) and sold his watches under the “Cimier” brand. These were so-called pin lever watches, inexpensive watches with robust and inexpensive movements.
In the 1950s, the watch manufacturer, now renamed LAPANOUSE-CIMIER SA, launched the first pin-lever chronograph , of which 21 million pieces were built. By the end of the 1960s, annual production rose to 1.5 million watches and the company employed over 500 people in Bubendorf .
When sales of mechanical watches fell sharply in the course of the quartz crisis in the 1970s, Cimier developed and industrialized its own quartz movements. The quantities required for a profitable production of quartz movements were not achieved, so that watch production was temporarily stopped in 1985.
From 2003, the Cimier brand was revived under the current company and the collection was expanded. Today the Cimier collection includes several model lines of mechanical and quartz watches.
Watch Academy
In 2010 the Watch Academy opened, in which end consumers can create and assemble their own mechanical watch in one day. There are now several hand-wound calibres and an automatic movement to choose from.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fabricants de montres. Association of the Swiss Watch Industry, accessed on October 17, 2016 .
- ↑ a b CIMER - from 1924 to today ... In: swisstime.ch. Retrieved October 17, 2016 .
- ↑ CIMIER Watch Academy. In: MySwitzerland.com. Retrieved October 17, 2016 .