Milestones.
1888
Carl Friedrich Bucherer opened his first watch and jewelry store.
1913
Carl Friedrich Bucherer’s two sons, Carl Eduard, who founded his own store in Berlin’s Unter den Linden street after training as a goldsmith, and Ernst Bucherer, imperial court watchmaker in Berlin, entered their parents’ line of business.
1919
Carl Friedrich Bucherer launched his own Art Deco-style ladies watch collection under the name C. Bucherer. He was one of the first manufacturers to focus on the wristwatch, then still revolutionary for its time.
1939
Sought-after rarity: the Art Deco ladies watches from Bucherer, made mainly of platinum and mostly diamond-paved.
1948
From an early stage, the brand focused on athletic chronographs and the practical display of the big date, where two independently rotating disks display the current date in generous dial windows.
1968
Around 15,000 highly precise, certified chronometers were leaving Bucherer’s workshop each year, placing the brand among the top three most important Swiss chronometer makers.
1969
The company took part in the Swiss consortium of ten Swiss watch manufacturers established for the development and production of the first quartz movement for wristwatches, the Beta 21.
1969
Even during the excitement of electronic movements in the mid-1970s, Bucherer continued to produce superior mechanical timepieces, thus gaining indispensable expertise.
1971
Designers at Bucherer delivered a constructive top performance with the internal rotating ring for the diving time found in the Archimedes Supercompressor. Combined with a world time mechanism, the diving watch was far ahead of its times.
1976
Jörg G. Bucherer took over the company and its traditions for the third generation.
1994
The proprietary development of the Archimedes Perpetual marked the beginning of the philosophy of focusing on useful additional functions and practical functionality. The full calendar displays could all be set using the crown.
2001
The brand was repositioned under the name Carl F. Bucherer and the Patravi Chronograph GMT was launched internationally. In Lengnau, near Biel in Switzerland, Carl F. Bucherer inaugurated a new watchmaking workshop and founded a subsidiary in Hong Kong.
2002
Beholden to company tradition: the chronograph feature and big date constitute a common theme throughout the collection. The company’s chronographs from the 1940s served as a role model for the Patravi ChronoDate.
2003
Creation of the Alacria – the feminine expression of time. This same year the brand was successfully launched in the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan, followed by market introductions in Thailand, Austria and Germany.
2004
The Patravi T-Graph represents the brands first elegant tonneau watch with a chronograph function.
2004
Carl F. Bucherer expands into North America with an independent distributor.
2005
Just one of Carl F. Bucherer’s many patents: the Patravi TravelTec’s intelligent monopusher mechanism built into the watch case allowed the parallel indication of three time zones.
2006
A masterpiece of horology: the Manero Perpetual and its perpetual calendar.
2007
Independent workshops for research, development and production of Manufacture calibers and modules for additional functions was established in Ste-Croix, Switzerland. Carl F. Bucherer expands its distribution network with offices in Japan.
2008
Carl F. Bucherer presented the CFB A1000 Manufacture caliber, thereby putting the brand’s high innovative ability to the test.
2009
The Patravi EvoTec DayDate was the first result of the brand’s own EvoTec Manufacture Concept.
2010
Carl F. Bucherer presented two more Patravi EvoTec models: the PowerReserve and the BigDate.
2011
The Patravi EvoTec Calendar is irresistible as the master piece of the Patravi EvoTec family, with its round, classical case. The CFB A1004 function module, based on the CFB A1000 Manufacture caliber, integrates a big date, with those of the day indicator, date indication and practical indication of the weeks.