Universal Genève wasn’t just some funky, old-school Swiss brand with a cool logo to slap onto a modern watch for the nostalgic set. Within Universal Genève’s dormant IP package was a weighty ...

The company was founded in 1884 as Universal Watch and changed its name to Universal ... By the ’40s, Universal Geneve was well-known for its Compax chronographs, including its now collectible ...

By Robin Swithinbank Breitling’s announcement in December that it had acquired the all-but defunct Swiss watch company Universal Genève was an early Christmas gift for the watch community ...

Late in 2023, the investment group owners of Breitling, Partners Group, acquired Universal Genève for around CHF 60 million (~$70.5 million) and are set to relaunch the brand as the true successor to ...

We are always scouring the web for the most amazing watches currently available, and each Friday we share five standout pieces with you. Late last year we published a thought-piece in which we ...

In a surprise announcement, Swiss watch brand, Breitling ... Watchmakers in the 1960s working in the Universal Geneve headquarters Georges Kern, CEO of Breitling, said in the statement ...

If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more At the tail end of last year, the watch industry was hit with a bombshell when the owners of Breitling revealed they had acquired Universal ...

Indeed, in its heyday, Universal made a watch for virtually every use case. Pilots, doctors, and even film directors were all served by specific UG chronographs. One of the coolest (and hardest to ...

None of these events, though, have triggered as much anticipation among watch lovers as the planned rebirth of Universal Geneve. The storied company, whose headquarters were once situated on the ...

And there is one distinctive dress watch from the era, from a brand whose glory days ended in the 1970s, that I can never get enough of. This is the Universal Genève Polerouter. Universal Genève ...

Universal Geneve might have ended up with a Hong Kong-based company in the late 1980s after the ‘quartz crisis’, which brought the Swiss watch industry to its knees, and languished for over ...