In the beginning: Glycine Watch company’s workplace around 1920.
A CONVERSATION sparked during a flight took a watch brand to greater heights as Glycine became world famous with the Glycine Airman pilot watch in 1953.
During a flight from Bangkok to Calcutta, Samuel W. Glur, an employee of Charles Hertig Sr, who took over Glycine in 1953 from founder Eugène Meylan, had a chat with the captain.
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