Ebel Watches

Having been awarded a gold medal during the Swiss National Exhibition, helped to propel Eugene and Alice Blum into the rarified air of fine Swiss watch makers. The successful husband and wife team started their modest little company in nineteen hundred eleven and introduced their first watch design in nineteen hundred twelve. Winning the gold medal at the exhibition in Bern, Switzerland was to be only the first of many honors bestowed on the Blum family for focusing on their vision of producing watches of precision combined with stylish and unique designs. Additional honors granted to Ebel included diplomas of honor at exhibitions in Brussels, Barcelona and Paris. Now in the watch business for close to ninety years, the Ebel Watch Company retains a reputation for producing some of the finest watches in the word.

In spite of achieving many successes during the early years, the Ebel name was not very well known outside of Europe. This changed in the mid nineteen twenties, Ebel began to manufacture watches for such well known names as Vacheron and Constantin and Ebel entered the North American market with the Paul Breguette name. During the of World War Two Ebel began manufacturing watches for the British Royal Air Force.

Then in nineteen sixty nine the grandson of founders Alice and Eugene Blum, Pierre-Alain Blum became in indispensable part of Ebel’s future and continued the Ebel tradition of producing fine watches of classic design craftmanship. Pierre-Alain helped Ebel survive during the topsy turvy period of the late nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies when the use of quartz crystal in watch movements became an almost overnight industry standard. The end of the twentieth century saw not only the creation of new designs but an effort to not lose the connection with the classic art design that initially made Ebel the toast of the watch making world.