"Ghignone
& Company" is an Italian Company leading in plexiglass face-covers
for watches.
Mr Pietro Ghignone, watch-repair person - founded the society in 1938.
The
difficulties encountered, mainly because of the lack of resources due
to the world-war, allowed Mr Pietro Ghignone to show his ability and artisan
skills. His outstanding genius lead him to recuperate the plexiglass from
the covers of cockpits of the war airplanes. He warmed the material up
and reduced the thickness, cutting it manually and literally with some
slice-machines, polishing and working it according to the necessities.
In
1972, his son Umberto succeeded his father Pietro Ghignone and in 1980
he lead the company to be one among the national leaders in the area of
face-cover for watches. In the same years the company moved to the production
of quartz, a much more noble material and much more requested on the market.
In 1985, there is a reorganisation of the company and besides the classical
production, a new division in opened. It develops projects and produces
small machines to work glass for watches and deals with the repairing
of the watches, specifically defined for labs and watch shops.
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