In 1924, the company's founder Arnold Schweitzer acquired the "Ecridor Pencil Factory" (founded in 1915) in Geneva, Switzerland and established a new company under the name Caran d'Ache Swiss Pencil Factory. With its long tradition of precious expertise handed down through the generations, Caran d'Ache devotes its passion and rigour to designing and producing exceptional products.

These include luxury-writing instruments, accessories and fine arts materials.

Today, Caran d'Ache (www.carandache.com) remains the world's only Swiss manufacturer of luxury writing instruments and fine arts products. World renowned for their "Swiss Made" quality, the subtle luxury, craftsmanship, authenticity and contemporary personality of Caran d'Ache never cease to surprise people and start them dreaming. Based in a country that is world famous for its watchmaking and jewellery, it is not surprising that the company has earned an international reputation for products of exceptional quality and beauty. The name Caran d'Ache evokes a prestigious universe, a wonderful combination of excellence and creativity. More than just a signature, it communicates a unique style: it is the mark of a Maison de Haute Ecriture – House of High Writing.

Caran d'Ache writing instruments are designed, developed and manufactured in Thonex-Geneva and sold worldwide through a specialized distribution network. With subsidiaries in Europe, USA, Asia and Middle East, they have a strong international presence and maintain a close relationship with both clients and partners.

For more than 5 decades of on-going research, innovation and functionality are intertwined and moments of extraordinary inventiveness blend into tradition and creativity. In high class leather goods, these precious instances of imagination, stylish design and accuracy have a name, BRIC'S. Bric's Industria Valigeria Fine (www.brics.it) was founded in 1952 in the region of Como Lake and is now leader in the travel and fashion accessories market. The prestigious BRIC'S collections are state-of-the-art in materials, unique in caring for details and refined essence, a perfect synthesis between shape, function and design: suitcases, bags and accessories can meet any demand and appease any need or desire of the cosmopolitan and refined customers. An exact message broadcasted to the whole world by every owner of a BRIC’S creation, a message of style, class and personality. BRIC'S, with their cosmopolitan spirit, interpret and design in their own way trends and fashions, reshaping them into unmistakable collections traveling all over the world. These are creations markedly Italian in taste, defining an international mould style, ever capable to give new and surprising emotions linked to the experience of the trip, thus discovering again with pleasant wonder each and every time that every BRIC'S represents in its own the style of a particular trip.

Thanks to BRIC'S flagship stores in Europe, America and Asia, today you can find this unmistakable style in the most important cities in the world, such as Milan (located in the most exclusive "Galleria Vittorio Emanuele"), Rome, Paris, Düsseldorf, New York, Shanghai and Shenyang, Dubai, Florence, Singapore and Malaysia. So many destinations, all different, yet all unique and unrepeatable. Like every BRIC'S piece of luggage. Those who own a BRIC'S have gone a long way.

Louis Erard (www.montres-louiserard.ch) where concept, design, prestigious mechanical movements are available at the most attractive prices.

Louis Erard's beautiful products are backed up by a flexible approach to the consumer in that they are designed to meet the customer's wishes.

What's more, they are high quality products, powered by prestigious mechanical movements that lend them real credibility in watch-making terms.

Fitted with ETA movements, Dubois Dépraz additional complications for the Moon Phases and Large Date models, or with ETA ebauches assembled, modified or completed in their own workshops, and Louis Erard modules for the Regulator and Power Reserve models, Louis Erard creations bear witness to the mastery of mechanical watch technology demonstrated by its nine watch-makers based in Le Noirmont.