2. Rolex is by far the most famous watch brand in the world. This is a real gem of Swiss watchmaking. But in fact, this largest company was founded in England, not in Switzerland.
In 1905, German entrepreneur Hans Wilsdorf and British politician and businessman Alfred Davies founded a company in London, later renamed Rolex. In 1919, Hans Wilsdorf moved his company to the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. And this was not due to the fact that at that moment Swiss watches were more popular than English ones. The reason for this was the bad tax policy in the UK, established by the government of the country after the end of the First World War.

3. Switzerland, despite its fame, produces watches even less than Apple alone. But who takes the lead in terms of their output? Of course China. To understand the volume of production in China, suffice it to say that it exported 5 times more watches than the 5 countries included in the top 6 watch manufacturers in the world combined.

4. In most advertisements, the clock hands almost always show the same time - 10:10. This was done for two reasons. The first is that the hands do not block the view of the aesthetic elements of the dial, such as the brand logo, subdials, date windows, etc.
The second reason is psychological. Marketers believe that the hands set at 10:10 create a kind of smile on the dial, which expresses positivity and attracts customers.

5. Until 1585, the clock had only two hands - hour and minute. In 1585, the Swiss and German mathematician Jost Burgi, who at that time was in the service of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Wilhelm IV, designed a clock with three hands. It was thanks to Bürgi that it became possible to measure a new unit of time - the second.