Group Roster of Luxury Watch Brands
The watch industry is known to change ever so often, such as major watch groups acquiring independent brands. To keep up to date on the big groups’ holdings, we wanted to provide a roster of who currently owns what in the luxury watch space:
Swatch Group - One of the most major names in the watch industry, this mega group in many ways helped to save the Swiss watch industry. Of the 8.46 billion Swiss francs ($9.04 billion) in net sales reported in 2013, SF8.17 billion came from watches and jewelry. With a large variety of brands under its umbrella, it also owns a host of other companies dedicated to producing watch movements or parts (such as ETA and Nivarox).
Richemont Group - Based in Geneva, Richmond markets 20 luxury brands,13 of which produce watches (where its sales predominantly come from). It’s brands are grouped into divisions including the Specialist Watchmakers, The Jewelry Maisons, and Other Businesses.
LVHM Group - LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA is the largest luxury-goods group in the world, owning dozens of brands in the liquor, fashion, cosmetics, and jewelry and timepiece categories. Continuing to grow its watch division, currently TAG Heuer is it’s largest brand.
Kering Group - Formerly know as PPR, Kering is a large Paris-based group building its watch business steadily over the last few years.
Among these bigger companies are still some large and powerful, independently owned watch companies like Rolex, Patek Phillipe, and Breitling to name a few. Having said that, things can and will change over time and using history as our indicator, it’s possible that fewer and fewer independent brands will remain independent. Have an opinion on what the watch industry has in store? Share with us on our Facebook page!
Swatch Group - One of the most major names in the watch industry, this mega group in many ways helped to save the Swiss watch industry. Of the 8.46 billion Swiss francs ($9.04 billion) in net sales reported in 2013, SF8.17 billion came from watches and jewelry. With a large variety of brands under its umbrella, it also owns a host of other companies dedicated to producing watch movements or parts (such as ETA and Nivarox).
Breguet • Harry Winston • Blancpain • Glashütte Original • Jaquet Droz • Léon Hatot • Omega • Longines • Rado • Union Glashütte • Tissot • ck watch • Balmain • Certina • Mido • Hamilton • Swatch • Flik Flak
Richemont Group - Based in Geneva, Richmond markets 20 luxury brands,13 of which produce watches (where its sales predominantly come from). It’s brands are grouped into divisions including the Specialist Watchmakers, The Jewelry Maisons, and Other Businesses.
A. Lange & Söhne • Baume & Mercier • Cartier • IWC • Jaeger-LeCoultre • Montblanc • Officine Panerai • Piaget • Roger Dubuis • Vacheron Constantin • Van Cleef & Arpels
LVHM Group - LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA is the largest luxury-goods group in the world, owning dozens of brands in the liquor, fashion, cosmetics, and jewelry and timepiece categories. Continuing to grow its watch division, currently TAG Heuer is it’s largest brand.
Bulgari • Hublot • TAG Heuer • Zenith • Chaumet • Fred • Dior
Kering Group - Formerly know as PPR, Kering is a large Paris-based group building its watch business steadily over the last few years.
Boucheron • Girard-Perregaux • JeanRichard • Gucci • Ulysse Nardin
Among these bigger companies are still some large and powerful, independently owned watch companies like Rolex, Patek Phillipe, and Breitling to name a few. Having said that, things can and will change over time and using history as our indicator, it’s possible that fewer and fewer independent brands will remain independent. Have an opinion on what the watch industry has in store? Share with us on our Facebook page!
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ReplyDeleteI loved your post especially the part about the kind that has money to burn and don't care about asking prices so much! :-) And you are right about how this it is luxury, so they have to work together to manage the products' exclusivity for a fair number of luxury watch brands, if they do want to have a strong business now and for the future!
Thanks and good luck with the good business!