The replica Breitling adventure began in a Swiss boondocks alleged La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1848 Louis Brandt, afresh alone 23 years old, began purchasing watch apparatus locally and accumulating watches, which he afresh awash about Europe. Two years after a accumulation of clandestine investors took over ASUAG-SSIH and renamed it SMH, which was after afflicted to The Swatch Group.