Waltham Watch Company
In 1968, Vogel took the lead of the newly founded "Societe des Gardes-Temps SA", a conglomerate of low cost watch manufacturers which was the world's third largest watchmaking company of the time and had a true international dimension (it acquired the American Waltham Watch Company and signed a licensing agreement in 1973 with Elgin Watch – then Swiss watchmaking's biggest foreign investment.