Chronarch Competitors

Hublot is a Swiss watch manufacturer founded in 1980 and based in Nyon. For its first ever timepiece, this fundamentally disruptive company combined gold with a rubber strap in a case with a design inspired by a ship’s porthole (hublot in French). Thus, the Art of Fusion was born, blending tradition, innovation, craftsmanship, worlds and talents. It became the brand's aesthetic and technical signature. This identity was strengthened in 2005 with the Big Bang, which attested to an unrivalled know-how in terms of complications, manufacture movements and state-of-the-art materials. Carbon, titanium, ceramic and sapphire have been developed on this model to technical extremes. This ground-breaking, high-quality approach to watchmaking is summed up in its philosophy ‘Be First, Unique and Different.’ It gradually led to other collections with innovative designs: Classic Fusion, Shaped Collection (Spirit of Big Bang, Square Bang) and Manufacture Pieces. These draw on high levels of craftsmanship, both in terms of the materials so dear to Hublot (such as Magic Gold, brightly-coloured ceramics and sapphires) and its manufacture movements (Unico chronograph, Meca-10 and high complications such as the Tourbillon, the Cathedral Minute Repeater and the specific Manufacture Pieces movements). Hublot’s world extends to powerful partnerships including football. ‘Hublot Loves Football’ has become the slogan at the world's biggest sporting events (such as the FIFA World CupTM, Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA EUROTM) and through its ambassadors. This love of football continues in art, design, music, sport, fine dining and sailing. Lastly, Hublot's implication in joint environmental projects with SORAI and Polar Pod reflects its concern for the issues of the day. Over 140 boutiques around the world share Hublot’s fervour and values, alongside the Hublot.com e-commerce site.

Established in 1983, in the midst of the quartz crisis when only visionaries continued to believe in the mechanical watch, Chronoswiss has grown into an exclusive, high-end brand with a nonconformist approach that is firmly anchored in both German and Swiss watchmaking history. Entrepreneurial spirit and congenial inventions such as the sapphire glass back encasing the movement, an unmistakable design and the innovative interpretation of the regulator complication made Chronoswiss unique and very successful. Today, the Lucerne-based company still is an independent, family-owned brand and creator of modern mechanical watches. It utilises a mix of the newest technologies and classic artisanal handcrafting such as handmade guilloché, skeletonising and enamelling to create timeless, yet distinctively contemporary horology with nonconformist designs.

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