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   AVIONICA HISTORY

Since 1924, The company has earned recognized reputation for its excellence in watch making. Through all the years, our primary objective has been to offer Swiss precision craftsmanship, timely design and outstanding technology at an affordable price. The company was found in 1924 in Buttes (Canton Neuchâtel). The “Val de Travers”, an aesthetic high-lying valley in Switzerland nearby the French border, is well known for watchmakers in the 18th Century. During the economic crisis in 1923 which Switzerland was also oppressively affected, he founded courage to pioneer as a watch manufacturer. Already in the initial years we began with the production of wrist-watches and mainly the calibers of FEF - Peseux and FHF. The vital period began in 1938 with the AS 1130 caliber, later known as “Armed Forced Watch”, acquired highest quality reputation by all countries taken part in the war.     

  AVIONICA continues this tradition today with the automatic chronograph movement Valjoux 7750. The company realized quickly the state-of-the-art in watch-technology. By 1967, electro-mechanical watches were also part of their watch collection. Thus in 1972 the collection already carried the first quartz-digital-display and in 1975 the first fully developed quartz-analogue watch.

    The AVIONICA collection is presented ,as a new concept line keeping the high quality and traditional manufacturing of the Swiss watch industry with new designs accomplished with the requirements of the modern top fighter pilots and also keeping the classical pilot watches from world war times. The designs are functional with clear dials with arabic numbers, retro-ilumination, anti-schock systems and anti-magnetism features. All this functional characteristics are mixed with an elegant simplicity to make an actual and fantastic wristwatches models.  Actually this type of wristwatches have become for their atractive dessigns and funcionality in a luxury product keeping the simple clarity and originality but upgrading the mecanism and the materials...to obtain a top quality product. AVIONICA watches always has a high reputation for the excellence in manufacturing since 1924, our main priority has been the Suisse Accuracy in the craftmanwork with advance dessign and ultimate technology.

 

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