1.   As one might expect from a man who once ran the Swiss watch company Blancpain, J. J. Fiechter has written a meticulously detailed narrative.

2.   His main sponsor is the European watch company Sector.

3.   Initially conceived by Nicholas Hayek, founder of the Swatch watch company, Smart was supposed to be a more radical break with the past.

4.   Okawa has been quoted saying that Sega had even talked with Swatch, the Swiss watch company.

5.   Piaget helped his father set up the Piaget watch company shortly after the end of World War II.

6.   A watch company whose suicide-themed advertising campaign sparked nationwide complaints said Friday it has withdrawn the ad.

7.   Inner strength just happens to be the ad campaign of TAG Heuer, the Paris-based sports watch company that recently signed Jones as a spokeswoman.

8.   The attempt was sponsored by the Italian watch company Sector.

9.   The government had appointed marketing guru Nicolas Hayek, founder of the Swatch watch company, to investigate.

10.   The U.S. model made the comment while in Moscow to present a jewelry collection from Omega, the watch company, Interfax said.