They appointed Swiss Initiative Limited (SIL) as sole license holder for production and worldwide distribution in 2015. In 2012 ”GT Thommen Watch AG”, the joint-venture partnership of Andreas Thommen, Roland Buser and Christopher Bitterli, bought the intellectual property rights for the watch business from REVUE THOMMEN AG and began revitalizing the brand in the Swiss wristwatch business. for the manufacturing and marketing of the REVUE THOMMEN wristwatch brand products, so REVUE THOMMEN AG could focus on its aircraft instrument business.Īfter the wristwatch business was spun off, the company began expanding its mechanical cockpit instrument business through the introduction of electronic aircraft equipment, including air data systems and helicopter searchlights. In 2000 REVUE THOMMEN AG granted a license to the Swiss company Grovana Ltd. Derivations like altimeters for parachutists followed, and were produced well into the Internet age. In 1945 REVUE THOMMEN commercialized its technical capabilities in the aviation sector by launching a pocket altimeter for alpinists. REVUE THOMMEN developed and supplied altimeters, airspeed indicators, vertical speed indicators, clocks, and the landing gear for the Swiss multifunction biplane EKW C-35.įrom 1939 - 1944, commissioned by the German government, the company produced watches for the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine under the brand REVUE-SPORT. In 1916, the first aircraft chronograph for the Swiss Air Force was created and laid the foundation for the company’s success as an aircraft instrument supplier.įrom 1936 – 1943, the company produced cockpit instrumentation for the Swiss Air Force.
REVUE had been used earlier as a brand name of the company’s wrist watches, after they had been marketed as “GT” watches (GT standing for Gédéon Thommen) before. Tschopp left the company, which was renamed Gédéon Thommen’s Uhrenfabriken.įrom 1905, the company was commercially registered as REVUE THOMMEN AG, a joint-stock company. Gédéon Thommen was also the founder and promoter of the Waldenburgerbahn, a steam train connecting the valley’s villages. In 1859 Gédéon Thommen and Louis Tschopp acquired the company and privately restructured it. It began to manufacture wristwatches in order to create work in the Waldenburg valley whose location at the route Basel- Geneva had become insignificant due to the newly established train connection Basel - Olten - Geneva. In 1853 Société d' Horlogerie à Waldenbourg was founded as a Swiss watch manufacturing company by the community of Waldenburg, Switzerland.
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