title: Dubey Schaldenbrand
Christopher Ward (watchmaker)
Concord watch
Eterna
The Swatch Group
Evolution Records
The Hour Glass Limited
Longines
Eberhard &amp; Co.
Universal Genève
sentences: Dubey & Schaldenbrand is a luxury watch company dating back to 1946 and named after founders Georges Dubey and René Schaldenbrand.
 In 1995, the revival of Dubey & Schaldenbrand started as a homage to the past with Cinette Robert deciding to open her vault containing her fabulous old movement collection.
 (During the 1970s and early 1980s, Cinette Robert was one of the few visionaries that toured all manufacturers in order to purchase watch movements and components.
 Recasing each movement according to the era when it was created, the Dubey & Schaldenbrand designs rapidly found a niche with collectors.
 Dubey & Schaldenbrand continues to produce small quantities of automatic and mechanical movement watches.
 The company is located in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.
Christopher Ward (London), founded by Chris Ward, Mike France and Peter Ellis in 2004, is a British luxury watch company.
 It was the first on-line only luxury watch retailer selling timepieces direct to the consumer.
Concord Watch Company is a Swiss luxury goods company that is part of the Movado group that owns Movado, Ebel, ESQ, Coach and Hugo Boss.
 Founded in 1908, Concord was purchased in 1970 by the North American Watch Company, which also distributed the Piaget and Corum lines of watches.
 From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, Concord produced what would become some of the most marketed and respected luxury quartz watches on the market.
 Concord watches became recognized in large cities as status symbols and were noted for their innovation and design.
 Flagship quartz models such as the Concord Centurion and Concord Delirium ranged from $2,000 to $20,000 surpassing the price of base automatic Rolex, Cartier and Omega wristwatches.
 By the 1990s Concord watches fell out of style and grew obsolete amidst the re-branding of the company.
 While the brand still exists today, it never regained its market position nor visibility that it once had.
Eterna is a Swiss luxury watch company founded in Grenchen, Canton Solothurn on 7 November 1856 by Josef Girard and Urs Schild.
 The company is now owned by Hong Kong based Citychamp Watch & Jewellery Group Limited (an investment holding company formerly known as China Haidian Holdings until 2014).
The Swatch Group is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewelry.
 The company was founded in 1983 by Nicolas Hayek from the merger of Allgemeine Gesellschaft der Schweizerischen Uhrenindustrie (ASUAG) and Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère (SSIH).
Evolution Records was a record label operated by the Stereo Dimension Records subsidiary of the Longines Symphonette Society, a unit of the Longines watch company.
 It was founded in 1969 as the retail arm of the mail-order Longines Symphonette Society which usually issued box sets of old radio shows, including a two-record set of Orson Welles's 1938 "Mercury Theatre on the Air" production of "The War of the Worlds", or traditional pop songs.
 Loren Becker was the president of the label.
 In 1973 the label made a concerted effort to break into the soul music genre.
The Hour Glass Limited (SGX:AGS) is a luxury watch retail group in Asia.
 The group currently owns and operates 41 retail stores across 9 cities.
 Headquartered in Singapore, it reported revenues of $734.9 million for FY 2015.
 Net profit was up by 5% to S$57.9 million from S$54.9 million in FY2014, outperforming a contracting regional luxury market.
 In addition, the group also deals in luxury properties and owns high-end retail and commercial properties throughout Asia.
 Most notably was their recent purchase of two high-end Australian properties for $37.2 million in 2015.
Longines (] , ) is a luxury watch company based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland.
 Founded by Auguste Agassiz in 1832, it is currently owned by the Swatch Group.
 Its winged hourglass logo is the oldest registered trademark for a watchmaker.
Eberhard & Co is a Swiss luxury watch company, founded in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland by Swiss watch making industrialist Georges Eberhard.
Universal Genève SA is a Swiss luxury watch company, founded in 1894 as "Universal Watch".

Question: Question: The group that owns the luxury watch company Longines was founded in which year? 

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 Dubey & Schaldenbrand is a luxury watch company dating back to 1946 and named after founders Georges Dubey and René Schaldenbrand.
 In 1995, the revival of Dubey & Schaldenbrand started as a homage to the past with Cinette Robert deciding to open her vault containing her fabulous old movement collection.
 (During the 1970s and early 1980s, Cinette Robert was one of the few visionaries that toured all manufacturers in order to purchase watch movements and components.
 Recasing each movement according to the era when it was created, the Dubey & Schaldenbrand designs rapidly found a niche with collectors.
 Dubey & Schaldenbrand continues to produce small quantities of automatic and mechanical movement watches.
 The company is located in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland. 

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 Christopher Ward (London), founded by Chris Ward, Mike France and Peter Ellis in 2004, is a British luxury watch company.
 It was the first on-line only luxury watch retailer selling timepieces direct to the consumer. 

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 Concord Watch Company is a Swiss luxury goods company that is part of the Movado group that owns Movado, Ebel, ESQ, Coach and Hugo Boss.
 Founded in 1908, Concord was purchased in 1970 by the North American Watch Company, which also distributed the Piaget and Corum lines of watches.
 From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, Concord produced what would become some of the most marketed and respected luxury quartz watches on the market.
 Concord watches became recognized in large cities as status symbols and were noted for their innovation and design.
 Flagship quartz models such as the Concord Centurion and Concord Delirium ranged from $2,000 to $20,000 surpassing the price of base automatic Rolex, Cartier and Omega wristwatches.
 By the 1990s Concord watches fell out of style and grew obsolete amidst the re-branding of the company.
 While the brand still exists today, it never regained its market position nor visibility that it once had. 

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 Eterna is a Swiss luxury watch company founded in Grenchen, Canton Solothurn on 7 November 1856 by Josef Girard and Urs Schild.
 The company is now owned by Hong Kong based Citychamp Watch & Jewellery Group Limited (an investment holding company formerly known as China Haidian Holdings until 2014). 

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 The Swatch Group is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewelry.
 The company was founded in 1983 by Nicolas Hayek from the merger of Allgemeine Gesellschaft der Schweizerischen Uhrenindustrie (ASUAG) and Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère (SSIH). 

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 Longines (] , ) is a luxury watch company based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland.
 Founded by Auguste Agassiz in 1832, it is currently owned by the Swatch Group.
 Its winged hourglass logo is the oldest registered trademark for a watchmaker. 

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 Eberhard & Co is a Swiss luxury watch company, founded in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland by Swiss watch making industrialist Georges Eberhard. 

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 Universal Genève SA is a Swiss luxury watch company, founded in 1894 as "Universal Watch". 

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Answer: 1983