Sunday, October 2, 2011

History of the Wittnauer Watches

There isn't anyone as endearing to the group as a rags to riches story and the history behind the Wittnauer Watch enterprise is one such story. Imagine if you will a young 16 year old Swiss immigrant arriving in New York City in 1872 with an already well advanced potential to produce high potential watches. The story only gets better from here.

Young Mr. Wittnauer begins working for his brother in law J. Eugene Robert. Mr. Robert is an importer of fine Swiss watches. With the help of his younger brother, Albert Wittnauer decides there is a need for a watch designed with all of the stamina and function the American group demands. Much to everyone's except Albert's surprise, the watches are an instant hit with his brother in law's clients.

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By 1890, the enterprise is formally establishes when Mr. Robert gives the title to Albert Wittnauer and the A. Wittnauer enterprise is born. All of the Wittnauer siblings are complicated in the budding business. They make the inviting decision to hire the best and most talented of watch production engineers. The enterprise also stays ahead of the game and begins to cater to the ever growing world of exploration. It is their timepieces that are found on trips made by navigators, explorers, and astronomers.

History of the Wittnauer Watches

In terms of the great global exploration taking place, the A. Wittnauer Co. Becomes even supplementary complicated with the Navy for early aviation tests. From there the world's most inviting population in regards to the budding fields of aviation, astrology, and navigation go to this enterprise for the most accurate, well made field devices and watches. Of the Wittnauer enterprise and products, noted horologist Marvin E. Whitney writes, "No one enterprise has been more complicated in the build and yield of so many separate types of navigational timepieces and been complicated in so many history production expeditions..."

With the death of her last brother Emile, Martha Wittnauer is left holding the reins of this astonishing enterprise in 1916. At the time, she is one of the few Ceos of a major American company. Martha does continue the astonishing work she and her brothers began years before and continues to bring success to the family company. She was particularly fond of encouraging the aviation navigating instruments that had helped make the enterprise so victorious in the first place.

That is a brief synopsis of the Wittnauer Company's early history. The events and population who originally formed the enterprise were to have a expansive influence on the rest of its history. The advantages made by the enterprise were continued in 1949 with the issue of a self winding watch. It was designed to be slimmer and more durable than the other self winding watches of the time.

The Wittnauer enterprise has retained its credit for astonishing timepieces and is still a major player on the watch production scene and is now part of the Bulova family. Fans of their products cite the beauty, precise function, and innovative designs to be the reasons they keep arrival back for more.

History of the Wittnauer Watches

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