Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Or “You can't tell the players’s without a program...” Or Who owns who in the watch industry... Originally written by Chuck Maddox , in 1 February 2001, 04:00 GMT, Last Revision, 10 December, 12:45 GMT Gucci Les Monts/British Masters Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey Movado Group Richemont Sowind Swatch Group Independents/Unknown... Acknowledgments With all of the recent acquisitions and consolidations there have been in the watch industry as of late it is impossible to know who owns who without a scorecard. This is an attempt at a listing of watch firms with links to their sites ordered by who owns them. I have been told by people that tracking the constantly changing terrain that is the Swiss watch industry is a largely unappreciated endeavour... This may be true, I don't know. In some cases, it has been impossible to locate official or unofficial sites for brands. I may not be able to keep up with the changes but if you have links that I am missing or can help me classify some of the Independent/Unknown firms within other groups please contact me. I'll do the best I can... For some brands I have included links to the scant resource I have found, in particular the Les Monts/British Masters, I indicate these with a (*)...     -- Chuck  Gucci is now owned by Pinault Printempf Redoute Watch Brands owned: Bedat & Co. Boucheron Gucci Yves Saint Laurent  Les Monts/British Masters Watch Brands owned: John Arnold & Son* Thomas Earnshaw George Graham* Thomas Mudge Daniel Quare Thomas Tompion* PK Time Group(••) •• Not a brand but this firm carries several brands that otherwise aren't represented on the web...  Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey Watch Brands owned: Chaumet Christian Dior Favre-Leuba Fred Donna Karan TAG-Heuer Zenith Note: LVMH sold Ebel to Movado Group in December 2003  Movado Group Watch Brands owned: Coach (Made under Contract) Concord Ebel ESQ Movado VIZIO Note: Movado Group doesn't own Coach, but makes it under contract, Ebel was bought from LVMH in 12/2003...  Richemont Watch Brands owned: A.Lange & Söhne (60% Stake) Baume & Mercier Cartier Alfred Dunhill IWC Jaeger-LeCoutre Minerva Mont Blanc Officine Panerai Piaget Van Cleef & Arpels Vacheron Constantin  Sowind Watch Brands owned: Daniel JeanRichard Girard-Perregaux Tradema  Swatch Group Watch Brands owned: Balmain Blancpain Breguet Certina cK/Calvin Klein Endura ETA/Valjoux (movements) Fendi* Flik-Flak Glashütte Original Glashütte Union Hamilton Jacquet-Droz Lanco Lemania (movements) Leon Halot Longines Mido Omega Pierre F. Piguet (movements) Rado Swatch Tissot Unitas Universo (watch hands) * Majority owner of Fendi  Independents/Unknown... AeroWatch Akteo Alain Silberstein Alfex Armand Nicolet Audemars-Piguet Bell & Ross Berney-Blondeau Boccia Rainer Brand Daniel Baumann (uc) Breitling Kelek Bucherer Bulova Ind/Loews Corp.) Bunz Bvlgari Daniel Roth Gerald Genta BWC Swiss Calcio Swiss Candino Carlo Ferrara* Carven Casio Catamaran Catena Cattin Catorex Private Label Century Chagal Chanel Charriol Chase-Durer Chopard Chronoswiss Chronoswiss (Unofficial) Citizen Clerc Consul Corum Delbana Delma Doxa Dubey & Schaldenbrand Dubois-Depraz Eberhard & Co. Enigma Epos Festina Calypso, Candino Jaguar, Lotus Formex Fortis Fossil Zodiac Frederique Constant Furrer Jacot Gallet Gevril Glycine Grenacher Grovana Guinand Hanhart HMT(I) Horoswiss Hublot Ikepod Invicta Its Time Jean Marcel Jovial Junghans Kobold Maurice Lacroix Andre Le Marquand Leschot Tourbillion Limes Luminox Mellerio dits Meller Michel Jordi Milus Mondaine Muhle Glashutte Franck Muller (US site) MHR Nivrel Nomos Glashutte Ollech & Wajs Orfina Oris Parmigiani Fleurier Patek Philippe Paul Picot Jean Perret Piljot Porsche Design Eterna R&R Time Group CAT Roamer Rodolphe Raymond Weil Revue Thommen RGM Roberge Genevé Rolex Tudor Rotary Roventa Henex SA R•X•W .jp site) Saint Honoré Jörg Schauer Sekonda Sector Seiko LaSalle, Pulsar Side Watch Sinn (.de only) Skagen Sothis (.de only) Swiss Army Victorinox Wenger Swiza Temption (de), US) Timex Titan Titoni Tutima Ulysse Nardin Universal Genéve UTS-Müenchen Van Der Bauwede Ventura Victorinox Swiss Army Waltham Wenger Swiss Army Harry Winston Wittau Wittnauer XEMEX Yantar Zeno Watch Basel Special Thanks to Raghu Mani for filling a bunch of gaps for me! Miles A. Woodlief for the A. Lange & Sohne, Van Cleef & Arpel's link and so many other updates, Tom Bewley for the Union Glashuette link and Tim Bissell for the Ollech & Wajs and Zeno-Watch-Basel Links.   -- Chuck