Dr.Nicolas Hayek (aka) Dr. Nicolas George Hayek. Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO – The Swatch Group.
The Swatch Group was earlier ‘Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d’Horologerie’ or SMH. Later The Swatch Group.
The watch brands of the Swatch Group being Swatch, Blancpain, Omega, Longines, Rado, Tissot, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Pierre Balmain, Calvin Klein, Flik Flak, Breguet and Lanco.
Nicolas Hayek is credited with the engineering and re-birth of the Swiss Watch industry.
He is the inventor of the Swatch Watch Company which used only 51 parts as opposed to the nearly 100 parts needed to make a traditional wrist watch. At the time it was first and foremost a technological break through.
-Member- Advisory Board of EPFC (Ecole Polytechniqu Federale de Lausanne)
Awards:
- Distinction of ‘Grosses Ehrenzeichen mit Stern ‘ – Government of Austria
- Conferred ‘Officier de la legion d’honneur ‘ – Government of France
- Conferred ‘Commander de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ – Government of France
- Appointed ‘Honorary Citizen of Biel-Bienne, Switzerland
- Conferred ‘Meisterschwanden’ – Aargau
- Awarded ‘ Swiss Lifetime Achievement Award (January 2007)
www.swatchgroup.com
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Swiss / Lebanese-American / Swiss-Arab