Swiss watch - the king of the watch kingdom
As we all know, Switzerland is the top producer of watch around the
world; Swiss ROLEX, TISSOT and OMEGA are top of the world’s
famous watch brands. Currently, the Swiss watches accounted for 65% of
the world watch market share. Furthermore, the share of high tech
watches even reached 77%, showing the well-deserved reputation of Swiss
watches.
It is generally
thought that owning a Swiss watch is a symbol of status and taste. Why
is Swiss watch highly respected and why could Swiss watch become the
king of the watch kingdom? One of the essential reasons is their high
qualities. The sophisticated production technology of movements
contributes their time accuracy. Switzerland is small, but it is the
world leader in scientific research. The
movements of Swiss watches are exquisite made and each link of the
watch manufacture is carefully designed and processed. The accuracy of
Swiss watches makes them distinguished in the world and
“Swiss made” has become the synonym of
“high quality”. For
example, in 1914 from the Kew Observatory ROLEX obtained the A-level
certificate, the highest rating in accuracy. This was a worldwide event
and it made ROLEX popular around the world. Another brand, TITONI, is a
traditional Swiss watch brand. It has been stick in the areas of
automatic mechanical watch over the years and the feature that they
proud most is their accuracy rate of 95%.
In addition to the strong quality
assurance, the design of the Swiss watches’ appearance and
function is top-ranking too. Their designs not only contain traditional
culture, but also follow the footsteps of the times.
LONGINES, known for elegant from 1832, combines harmony and
beauty in its appearance design. “Elegant attitude, real
personality” is the brand philosophy of LONGINES and Audrey
Hepburn was its image spokesperson.
As for the function design, in 2002 TISSOT launched
“T-TOUCH”, a touch screen watch with 6 extra
functions like weather notice, altimeter, and chronograph and so on.
And avant-garde SWATCH is the favorite of the young. SWATCH is not only
a new type of a high tech watches, but also brings in a new concept:
watch is no longer an expensive luxury or a simple timing tool but a
fashion worn on the wrist.