ATG Brands
Bremont
Bremont Description
Bremont has set itself a clear objective: both through consistent preservation of the long tradition of the Swiss watchmaking art and meeting its high standards, as well as creating, with its very own, innovative complications and movement developments, contemporary design and a heightened passion for detail and perfection.
Although Bremont watches are made using only fine-quality Swiss components and are hand-assembled by the best watchmakers working from a dedicated atelier in Biel-Bienne, they contain something which no comparable timepiece can match – an air of quintessential Britishness which is derived from the background of the brand’s founders, the brothers Nick and Giles English.
Glycine
Glycine Description
After WW II
In 1945, with the war over and access to world markets again possible, the industry took a deep breath.
Immediately, Glycine geared up production and rapidly presented a complete range of automatic (self-winding) watches, making use of the most advanced technologies.
1952 saw the birth of the famous VACUUM chronometers, watches known for their incredible resistance to water and shocks, designed for long-term use under hostile conditions. They performed well beyond expectations.
In 1953, the AIRMAN line was presented to the world market and immediately received an enthusiastic welcome. Now, in addition to regular local time, world time was available at a glance.
The steadily growing class of jet-setters and frequent travellers readily took to the convenience of having two time zones on their wrist.
The AIRMAN line has never been absent from the Glycine selection, and is, today more than ever, the spearhead of the range.
Harwood
Harwood Description
The Englishman John Harwood enriched the horology with an invention, which in the meantime is indispensable for the modern valuable watch: The automatic winding was initiated by the “HARWOOD perpetual”. The invention of Harwood used the kinetic energy at the wrist of the wearer for tightening the mainspring by means of an oscillating rotor in the center of the watch movement. This ingenious invention ranks among the milestones of watch history and Harwood watches have acquired the title of classics among wrist-watches.
Innovative, functional and dignified – HARWOOD – A leading model with technical sophistication and exciting style.
Junghans
Junghans Description
In 1903, Arthur Junghans’ vision became a reality – Junghans was the world’s largest watch factory.
More than 3,000 employees produced more than 3 million watches each year. The manufacturing facility soon had to be expanded. And so the terrace building came into being, with a step-like construction that delivered natural daylight to each and every watchmaker’s work station. The building is now protected as a historic monument.
1946 A precious legacy in difficult times
After Arthur Junghans’ death, his sons Erwin and Oscar took over management of the company in 1920. Continuing the company’s legacy and maintaining its high standards was no easy task, but the brothers mastered it successfully. At the start of the 1930s, the first wristwatches were produced and would quickly replace pocket watches as the most popular style of watch on the market.
Even after the Second World War and the dismantling of the factory, the innovative spirit of Junghans’ master watchmakers remained undaunted. Junghans developed the first wristwatch chronograph movement, the legendary J88, as early as 1946. Junghans was also able to assert itself as a company with a long tradition in the new market environment of post-war reconstruction.
1970 The time of quartz
Following the successful consolidation of the company after 1945, Junghans began to focus on new, more precise methods for measuring time. The first result of these efforts was the electric movement. But it was the newly invented quartz technology that Junghans really took up and developed further.
The first German quartz clock was built at the end of the 1960s and Germany’s first quartz wristwatch was built in 1970. As a pioneer of chronographic development, Junghans made history once again as the official timekeeper of the 1972 Olympic Games.
1985 Junghans and the radio-controlled timepiece
Junghans created yet another revolution on the clock and watchmaking market when they developed the first radio-controlled table clock. The world’s first radio-controlled wristwatch, the Mega 1, followed the first radio-controlled solar clock in 1990
To celebrate the Mega 1’s 15-year birthday in 2005 and to pay tribute to the classic, Junghans launched the Mega 1000, a new interpretation of the world’s first radio-controlled wristwatch that combines contemporary design and ultra-modern technology.
Max Bill
Max Bill Description
Max Bill – a product of the Bauhaus generation, pupil of Walter Gropius and kindred spirit of le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe – was a virtuoso designer and creative artist, as his diverse activities as a painter, architect, sculptor, teacher and designer amply demonstrate. his work is characterised by a clarity of design and precise proportions which are unrivaled to this day.
Max bill by Junghans is available in the form of wristwatches and wall clocks wherever clocks and watches and good design are to be found.
Max Bill Chronology
1908
born on 22nd December in winterthur/Switzerland.
1924–27
silversmith’s apprenticeship at the school of arts and crafts in Zurich.
1925
a lecture by le Corbusier inspires him to study architecture.
1927/28
student at the Bauhaus, college of design in Dessau.
1929
moves to Zurich. From then on, active as an architect, painter, graphic artist, sculptor, publicist and product designer.
1944/45
teaches theory of form at the school of arts and crafts in Zurich.
1947
establishes the “institute for progressive culture”.
1951–56
Co-founder and architect of the college of design in ulm.
1961–64
chief architect of the ”creation and design” sector of the Swiss national exhibition in Lausanne.
1967–74
professor at the state college of graphic arts in hamburg. 1994 died in Berlin on 9th December.