Engineering:Leijona watch
The Leijona watch is Finland 's most popular wristwatch. Leijona means lion in English.[1] The Leijona brand watches have been manufactured since 1910, they have also started to be sold in the same year in Tampere, Finland .
The watches were originally manufactured in Switzerland , and have also been manufactured in Japan and China .[2]
History
The Leijona brand is a brand mainly consisting of the manufacturing of watches. The Leijona brand watches started to be sold in the year 1910 in Tampere, Finland , by the retailer J. W. Lindroos. At first the Leijona Brand watches were manufactured in Switzerland. The identifier for the watches has always been a picture of a lion, which is related to the word leijona.
Perkko Ab bought J. W. Lindroos' business in 1919; the duty of importing and retail selling of the Leijona brand watches (on the behalf of the brand) was moved to them.
Nowadays the Leijona brand includes about 350 different watches (which include, but are not limited to wristwatches, pocket watches and necklace watches.) The Leijona brand is now the most popular Finnish watch brand. The collection of watches, provided by the Leijona brand, changes many times in just a single year.
Description
New models are introduced several times in a single year. They combine influences from international trends as well as local Finnish styles. The watches in provided by the Leijona brand contain, but are not limited to wristwatches, pocket watches and necklace watches. The collection has trendy as well as conservative models.
Many of the movements were actually manufactured in Switzerland.
References
- ↑ "Leijona - English translation - Finnish-English dictionary". https://en.bab.la/dictionary/finnish-english/leijona.
- ↑ Ylisipola, Heino. "Leijona-kello 100 vuoden ikään" (in fi). http://www.kaleva.fi/uutiset/talous/leijona-kello-100-vuoden-ikaan/154091/. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
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