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Americans Compete with Japanese Abacus. 1:16. NTDTV. [DOC] [TLE] The Swatch Group - Wikipedia [PAR] The Swatch Group is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewelry founded in 
1983 from the ... Swiss watch quality was high, but new technology such as the 
Hamilton ... part to heavy competition from inexpensive Asian made quartz crystal 
watches. ... it was renamed SMH in 1986, and ultimately Swatch Group Ltd in 
1998. [DOC] [TLE] Table of Contents 1. Foreword 2. The Swiss Watch Industry from ... [PAR] In the eyes of the other Swiss manufacturers, these electronic watches had ... 
dedicated himself to the development of an inexpensive watch movement. ... The 
Swiss companies were thus convinced that they could compete with the ... Via 
share-transfer ASUAG created in 1971 the watch conglomerate General Watch 
Co. [DOC] [TLE] Markets in Time: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Swiss Watchmaking ... [PAR] Jan 1, 1999 ... Close to 500 companies in Switzerland manufacture watches, watch ... world 
eagerly sought Swiss pocket watches and wristwatches, from inexpensive ... was 
established in Neuchtel to develop a Swiss-made quartz wristwatch. ... 
mechanical watch chronometers for accuracy, held a competition in 1968. [DOC] [TLE] Turning back the time on Swatch man Hayek | The National [PAR] When the Swiss watch industry was on its last legs Nicolas Hayek came up with 
the ... in 1976, had become the centre for inexpensive digital quartz timepieces. 
Switzerland could not compete with Hong Kong's inexpensive labour pool. ... 
Thomke established five rules for their watches - they must be stylish, 
inexpensive to... [DOC] [TLE] the swiss watch cluster - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness [PAR] 2.1 Swiss Watches in a Global Context ... 2.1.4 Competing Companies in the 
Global Watch Industry ... Internally, the value of the Swiss Made brand motivates 
complacency and ...... Japanese Casio CA53W quartz digital watch illustrates this 
point. .... In addition, SMH eliminated some superfluous products and brands and
... [DOC] [TLE] Engineering Time: Inventing the Electronic Wristwatch - JStor [PAR] in large quantities. But today, when about 90 per cent of all watches made are 
electronic, .... of watch engineers, Hetzel was hired in 1950 by Bulova in 
Switzerland to develop .... makes even the cheapest electronic watch many times 
more accurate than a well- .... in the ongoing competition among watch 
companies.20. [DOC] [TLE] All About/Watches - Watchmakers Are Ringing The Old Back In, as a ... [PAR] Jul 15, 1990 ... Multifunction watches - mechanical or electronic, with alarms, stopwatches, ... 
The Swatch, a hugely successful plastic watch created by SMH Ltd., the ... The 
average value of watches exported from Switzerland is about $100 at ... ''The 
Swiss cannot and will not compete with the many millions of watches... [DOC] [TLE] Swatch watch history  Past  The Swatch Group - Swatch Group [PAR] At the time, both SSIH and ASUAG held a number of well-established Swiss 
watch brands. ... SSIH's principal objective was to market quality Swiss watches. 
... particular the Japanese watch industry, with its mass production of cheap new 
electronic ... Critical steps included the merger of ASUAG and SSIH into SMH and 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Hayek saves the Swiss watch industry - William Dowell [PAR] In the early 1980s Swiss watch companies faced a commercial apocalypse, the 
result of seemingly unbeatable competition from Asia ... major Swiss 
watchmakers decided to stick with established mechanical watches with higher 
profit margins. ... to flood the market with cheap electronic watches that kept just 
as good time. [DOC] [TLE] Swatch decision throws a spanner in Swiss watch industry's works ... [PAR] Aug 10, 2005 ... The industry had been going downhill, battling increasing competition from 
cheap watches made in Asia, which used quartz-based electronic... [DOC] [TLE] The position of the Swiss watch industry in the global ... - Our Planet [PAR] In

Question: To compete with electronic watches, SMH created this inexpensive Swiss watch
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