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Schwarz Etienne worked within the various brands it owned, such as Venus, Alpha, Sultana Le Phare and Astin. Schwarz Etienne’s has also had many partnerships supplying movements and / or producing white label large brands, such as Chanel, Dunhill, Mauboussin and Caran d’Ache.

The company, which was taken over by the family’s sons in 1940, Schwarz Etienne progressively extended its business across Europe and also across Asia and the Near-East. In the middle of the 1960s, the watch manufacturer enjoyed growing success. It attracted prestigious clients, such as the Vatican and Leonid Brezhnev (the then Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet).

Following a broad diversification of its production in the 1970s and 1980s and in order to alleviate the watchmaking crisis, from 1985 onwards the company decided to return to its original know-how, i.e. the creation of movements and watches. During this period, it developed its own brand and its own collections, and progressively became a watch manufacturer in its own right.

In 2003, Chaux-de-Fonds business man, Raffaello Radicchi, bought the Schwarz Etienne company.

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