Rare Vintage Technos Moon Phase Calendar Swiss Quartz Ladies Dress Watch JDM 80s

► ARCHIVE FILE: TECHNOS — BRAND HISTORY

Technos began in 1900, when Melchior Gunzinger opened a watchmaking workshop in Welschenrohr, a village in the Solothurn Jura where horology was the local industry. The firm grew into Gunzinger Freres, run by the family, and took its brand name from the Greek techne, meaning art or craft. Technos never chased the prestige of the Geneva houses; it built solid, fairly priced mechanical watches around dependable Swiss ebauches and sold them hard, and that unglamorous formula kept the family business healthy through two world wars and half a century of consolidation in the Swiss industry.