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The Story of Kelek SA: Resilience in the Quartz Crisis

by Sergio Galanti

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Sergio Galanti
Feb 15, 2025
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The quartz crisis of the 1970s and 1980s transformed the Swiss watch industry. Quartz technology introduced affordable, accurate timekeeping, challenging traditional mechanical watches. Amid this upheaval, Kelek SA, a small Swiss watchmaker established in 1896 in La Chaux de Fonds, pursued a different path. Rather than embracing quartz, it focused on me…

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