Timex Group USA, Inc. (formerly known as Timex Corporation until 2008), is an American Watchmaker and a subsidiary of Timex Group B.V., headquartered in Middlebury, Connecticut. The company is the current day successor of the Waterbury Clock Company founded in 1854 in nearby Waterbury, Connecticut.
Watches with the Timex brand name were first used in 1946 with a small shipment of nurses' watches. The X suffix was used to invoke a sense of technological advancement. Watches were not sold under the name Timex in the U.S until 1950. Over the next three decades, Timex watches were sold through a series of advertisements which emphasized durability by putting watches through torture tests, such as falling over the Grand Coulee Dam or being strapped to the propeller of an outboard motor, with the slogan "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking". Sales increased through the involvement of TV newscaster-turned-spokesman John Cameron Swayze.
Today, Timex Group B.V.'s products are manufactured in the Far East and in Switzerland, often based on technology that continues to be developed in the United States and in Germany. The group has operations in a number of countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
具有悠久传奇历史的钟表品牌TIMEX(天美时),于1854年诞生于美国Waterbury时钟公司—以专业制表工艺闻名美国。当时,TIMEX(天美时)将科技创意及传统制表精神相结合,在众多钟表公司中脱颖而出,在二十世纪50年代成为美国第一的钟表公司。90年代,在其它钟表品牌的冲击和全球经济危机下,TIMEX(天美时)也是在美国仅存下来的钟表制造商。不但没有止步不前,反而迎来了150年来品牌创新最为鼎盛和活跃的时期,这一方面归结于新数字流行技术的影响,但更多的还是在于TIMEX(天美时)始终追求变革的悠久传统以及对风尚潮流的敏锐嗅觉。现今,在美国本土平均每三个人就有一个佩戴TIMEX(天美时)手表,美国总统布什,前总统克林顿,总统竞选者戈尔等也都是其忠实佩戴者。 在潮流涌动的今天,TIMEX(天美时)更时时为消费者带来众多的创新表款:SL全自动机械表,“运动奢华”腕表的完美结合一经推出,引来了众多手表爱好者,全自动机械机芯传承TIMEX(天美时)传统工艺,设计基于流行的运动表风格,并加入了别致的材料和细节设计以增加奢华的成分。户外系列潮汐温度指南针表,这是科技和设计的完美结合,新推出的彩色系列保持了其独有的特色并在设计上更为抢眼,以迎合户外爱好者挑剔的眼光。户外潜水系列,公认的、专门为从事水下运动的人士而提供的专业探险级手表。T 系列多功能计时男款是运动灵感的最佳体现,满足了都市人对运动的渴望,将对运动的诉求,融入到腕表的每个细节。T 系列的女式多功能计时系列,处处彰显着女性的温柔细腻,传递出一种简约、典雅、尊贵的气质。这些新表款,完美的发扬了天美时悠久的制表传统,不仅透露出独特的风格与魅力,同时也诠释了品牌一贯的现代与时尚。 在1993年纽约世贸中心的爆炸案中,当时一名佩戴TIMEX(天美时)手表的某公司职员,在万分危难时启动了INDIGLO®夜光功能,在完全黑暗的环境下,成功带领人群逃离困境,重获新生。 美国国家航空即太空总署航天员Dr Daniel Barry佩戴TIMEX(天美时) Data Link手表分别在1996年太空穿梭机飞行中环绕地球142周年,并且在1999年完成152周旅程。 丰富的产品,出众的设计,卓越的品质,这就是天美时,无论在19世纪,还是上世纪60年代,或者现在;无论在正式场合,还是休闲娱乐的一刻,永远那么合适得体,永远那么引领风尚。
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