Today, a watch is not so much a device for determining the time as a stylish and status accessory.
Introducing watch brands rating, compiled according to the portal TiptopWatches, dedicated to famous manufacturers and popular watch models. This list includes the most popular and expensive watch brands.
15. TAG Heuer - a Swiss brand that is a member of the global holding company LVMH, a well-known luxury goods manufacturer.
14. A. Lange & S? Hne - A German watch company, wrist and pocket watches from which easily compete with the products of the most famous brands.
13. Omega - a brand that will turn 128 this year. It is the property of the Swatch Group Ltd. holding company, which produces watches under the brands Breguet, Blancpain, Mido, Longines, Rado, Omega, Tissot, Swatch and others.
12. Rolex - The watch company, founded in 1905 by the German Hans Wilsdorf, today has a head office in Switzerland. Rolex produces more than half a million watches a year.
11. Girard-Perregaux - A prestigious watch brand, leading its history since 1791. In 1969, Girard-Perreguax engineers introduced the world's first quartz movement with a pulsation of 32,768 Hz, which eventually became the international standard for quartz watches.
10. Piaget manufactures premium watches since 1874. He founded the company Georges Édouard Piaget in La Cote-aux-Fees, 14 children of the master became the successors of the business.
9. Hublot - a brand owned by the MDM concern (Montre des Montres). Distinctive features of this luxury watch are the “marine” design and rubber straps.
8. Audemars Piguet - A company that carefully preserves the traditions of production. Annually, under the Audemars Piguet brand, no more than 15 thousand products are manually assembled, each of which is marked with a unique number and signature of the master.
7. Chopard - a company named after its creator Louis-Ulysses Chopard, who founded the production of pocket watches and chronometers in 1860 in the town of Sonvillet. One of Chopard’s famous design solutions is the “floating diamonds” technology, when precious stones move freely between two sapphire crystals.
6. Ulysse Nardin - A company that originally specialized in the production of marine chronometers. Traditionally included in the ratingSwiss watch brands, has more than a century of history and Ulysse Nardin is no exception, the brand has been known since 1846.
5. Cartier - A French company specializing in the production of not only watches, but also jewelry, today part of the Richemond concern.
4. Blancpain - Swiss brand whose history began back in 1735. The production was founded by the village watchmaker Jean-Jacques Blanpa. Today, all products under the Blancpain brand are assembled exclusively by hand, while the watch is only mechanical.
3. Jaeger-LeCoultre - A watch house founded by members of the Le Coultre family in 1833. Today, the brand is owned by the Richemont Group. Jaeger-LeCoultre designers are known for their addiction to modernism.
2. Vacheron Constantin - a brand that symbolizes quality and elegance since 1755. The clients of this Swiss company were aristocrats of France and Italy, including both wives of the Emperor Napoleon. The company annually produces about 20 thousand hours of premium class.
1. Patek Philippe Is another Swiss brand that leads watch manufacturers rating. The founders of the company in 1839 were Pole Anthony Patek and Frenchman Adrien Philippe. The price of products of this prestigious brand starts from 10 thousand US dollars.
