Horological Meandering

Find this on FB. Interesting, did you know that Citizen own Arnold & Sohn for example? ...  

Some I was likewise not aware of. Not many . Thanks for posting. Cheers, Filip

LJP was getting into trouble as they foresaw the grim future with less and less supply of hair spring from Swatch Group. So, Citizen came in and decided to provide hair spring and other essential parts to LJP, while Citizen kept LJP and Arnold & Son as-is... 

Did LJP buy Arnold & Sons from The British Masters? They also owned Graham (and the smaller production Tompion watches) back in the day. I’m curious where Graham watches have ended up? Cheers, NickO

Citizen is a very modest company - I repeatedly told them to at least to show "A Citizen Company" on Arnold & Son advertisement, but they did NOT! Ken

You're always a treasure chest of information!

You are very knowledgeable!

Thanks for nice overview!

My two past experiences with two different brands from Richemont were absolutely terrible. So maybe the customer service of the brands belonging to the same company share the same DNA.

Were a little unfortunate given that they share them with a terrible disease. NickO

I have not had an ALS or Cartier so perhaps that’s what I should’ve gone for.

Very useful chart. I'm surprised that citizen owns Angelus too

. . . was still in business. Apparently, the brand was re-launched a few years ago. Art

FMG is not inside for one though.

Audemars Rolex Patek These hold special appeal to me for this reason.

Previously known as the North American Watch Company. It owns MGI Luxury Group SA, of Biel/Bienne, which makes Movado, Ebel, and Concord watches. MGI also makes ESQ watches, and licenses watches under the labels Coach, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, Juicy Cou...