Ebel (watch brand)

Ebel is a traditional Swiss watch brand. The brand name is the word creation from the names of the married couple and entrepreneurs Eugene Blum and Alice Lévy (Eugene Blum et Lévy), who founded the company on July 15, 1911 in La Chaux-de-Fonds . Eugène Blum was responsible for the technical side of the brand development, Alice Levy was responsible for the aesthetic aspects of Ebel watches.

In the 1980s, the “1911” line, named after the year it was founded, had great success.

The traditional brand was taken over in the autumn of 1999 by the French luxury goods group LVMH and then in 2004 by the American group Movado (emerged from an agency opened in 1924 in the USA by the company of the Ditesheim brothers, who have been manufacturing watches since 1881, called "Movado" since 1905).

In the near future, Ebel wants to concentrate on its “Sport Classique”, “Beluga”, “1911” and the new “E-Type” lines.

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Individual evidence

^ Charles Cleves: Old Watches. Movado - Ahead of its Time. In: Horological Times. November 1988, p. 32 ff.
^ F. von Osterhausen: The Movado story. Munich 1996.
^ Helmut Kahlert , Richard Mühe , Gisbert L. Brunner , Christian Pfeiffer-Belli: wrist watches: 100 years of development history. Callwey, Munich 1983; 5th edition ibid. 1996, ISBN 3-7667-1241-1 , p. 490 f.

[1] Charles Cleves: Old Watches. Movado - Ahead of its Time. In: Horological Times. November 1988, p. 32 ff.

[2] F. von Osterhausen: The Movado story. Munich 1996.

[3] Helmut Kahlert , Richard Mühe , Gisbert L. Brunner , Christian Pfeiffer-Belli: wrist watches: 100 years of development history. Callwey, Munich 1983; 5th edition ibid. 1996, ISBN 3-7667-1241-1 , p. 490 f.