In 1915 he became president of Martha Wittnauer Wittnauer Watch Corporation, which makes them one of the first senior female executives in this country. He rose to the position which she performed with great skill, after his brothers, the number of management positions in the company was dead, every morning. By all accounts he was a skilled strategic leader, and led the company into a kind of niche to fill: the Wittnauer watch would basically be a navigational aid used to seeGreat explorations and missions, so that establishing the brand as a very accurate and durable.
In his Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart, Wittnauer watches, and retired, but rich Howard Hughes used to fly his H-1 Racer, "Winged Bullet", the record flight from Burbank, CA to Newark, NJ made with instruments Wittnauer board.
The Wittnauer All-Proof (the first water-shock, anti-magnetic clock) was used prominently in the Second World War. As a show of life isonce was dropped from the Empire State Building.
A Swiss watch company, based in New York, Wittnauer truly a family affair, at least until the Great Depression. In 1872, only 7 years after the Civil War, Albert Wittnauer is looking to New York from Switzerland in the business and watch from his brother-in-law Robert J. Eugene invited. Two years later, the second brother, Louis Decamps from Switzerland to join his brother Alberto, businessman Eugene J. 'S.
In1885, Albert, the company takes the place of his brother-in-law. Three years later, the last of the Wittnauer siblings, 23 years old, Emile comes to New York to work for the company to watch. It is, as Emile died in 1915, that Martha keeps control of the company.
The company has successfully used Wittnauer-NBC in late 1920 as Official Timekeeper for the radio, up to depression. Like many other companies, the watchmakers were fighting in 1930 and, finally,the need to sell, Martha the company a national jewelry manufacturer. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, ownership Bulova Wittnauer today.
Throughout the story the same Wittnauer watch has taken the lumps on the market, and has always in the forefront of innovation. But then, neither is it inert.
In 1940, Wittnauer especially flowers. It 'widely used by the military, so that part of their identity as a militaryWatches. This was a case, and the publicity and goodwill he received from his military organization, has helped immensely. In 1948, CBS aired a 30-minute radio programs with Choralies Wittnauer.
Today, Wittnauer employed, usually, a price range from $ 500.00 to $ 1,200.00. Therefore, it can be thought of as a move towards the "high end", while others are used within the financial base for many serious and casual collector. While one can argue that he did not Wittnauersignificant stylistic innovations over the past 20 odd years, there can be no doubt that many models are aesthetically pleasing and, of course, the clock continues to durability and reliability for the residents of the clock when it was founded to be.
Models are the main Warwick, Barrymore, and Montserrat.
