Halda was founded in 1887 by the factory owner Henning Hammarlund (1857-1922) in order to primarily produce pocket watches.
Its name is formed by a contraction of the founder's surname -Hammarlund( a).
Hammarlund had, after a solid education in particularly Switzerland, returned to Sweden determined to start a Swedish pocketwatch factory.
The location of this purpose he found in the small community of Svängsta by Mörrumsån in Blekinge.
The first pocketwatches, Haldauren was presented 1889. In 1893, they were rewarded two medals at the World Exhibition in Chicago.
In 1890, Halda also began to produce typewriters and taximeters.
To cope with the ever decreasing demand for pocket watches during World War I, Hammarlund developed new ideas for the manufacturing of typewriters and taxi meters.
After financial problems however, the pocket watch production was put down in 1917 (about 8,000 pocket watches was manufactured from 1888 to 1917) and in 1920 the company was liquidated.
Instead, a new company, AB Halda Fabriker, took over the manufacturing of typewriters.
The successful production of taximeters, took the Fabriks AB Halda taximeter (which is the origin of today's Haldex AB (gearboxes, four-wheel drive, etc.) and Halda Trancometer AB (taximeters)) and production was moved to Halmstad.
Even the production of pocket watches lived on under the watchmaker Carl Borgström's housing, an employee of the Halda Fickursfabrik since 1904.
Borgström bought up the remaining stock of watch parts and some machinery and again, along with some watchmakers from Fickursfabriken, started produce watches.
The company, AB Urfabriken (ABU), came to produce pocketwatches until 1926 and then included fishing equipment. ABU, now ABU-Garcia AB, is still located in Svängsta.
AB Halda Fabriker went bankrupt in 1927 each after the company name was changed again, this time to Halda AB.
The business grew throughout the 1930s.
In 1938 Halda was taken over by AB Åtvidabergs Industrier and converted to a subsidiary under the name Facit-Halda AB. Halda, however, had remained as a typewriter brand in the Åtvidaberg Group to the year 1957 when it switched to Facit AB.
During the early 1970s, over 1,000 employees worked at the factory in Svängsta.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, business was worse, and in 1987 (the same year as Halda turned 100 years old) the former owner, Ericsson announced that they sold Facit to the Norwegian Design Data.
Facit Holding AB was formed in connection with this.
Despite the production of electronic typewriters and focus on manufacturing personal computers and printed circuit boards the company's position deteriorated further.
At the end of 1992-1993, the company went bankrupt, and the typewriter production in Svängsta was put down.
In 2009, Halda was given new life and at the initiative of the watch entrepreneur and engineer Mikael Sandström who has developed a new watch with an innovative concept of a time-platform and two interchangeable time-modules.
The 21st century Halda-watches is based on the same drive that Henning Hammarlund established: there is never room for compromise in quality or function.
Therefore, in developing the first modern Halda-watch, the company worked with the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang who tested the watch in the most extreme environment—on his latest space mission.  (fonte Wikipedia)

The original Hanhart watch factory was founded in Diessenhofen, Switzerland, in 1882, and later moved to Schwenningen, Germany, long considered the center of German clock manufacturing.
The company soon gained a reputation for producing some of the finest chronographs, wristwatches, pocket and sport watches, and professional gauges and instruments.
Though the name travelled well throughout the world into the early decades of the 20th century, it wasn’t until the years of the Third Reich that lasting history would be made.
Though numerous timepieces were produced, the Luftwaffe fighter pilot and Kriegsmarine U-boat commander chronograph wristwatches will likely be those best remembered and desired by watch collectors.
The demise of Germany in WWII brought an end to production until 1948.
In 1997, offices and production moved to Gutenbach in the Black Forest, where HANHART’S stop watches had been made since 1924.
Today, this is a high-tech center for research, production and development of a wide range of sophisticated mechanical and electronic time measuring devices.
Thus it seems fitting that the original manufacturer would begin producing their most famous and renowned chronograph wristwatches from the 1940’s at this facility again.
Manufactured by hand, we are proud to offer these exquisite, precision-made historic wristwatches.
Each watch is crafted in the traditions of old German watch making, and is as much a work of beauty as it is durable and dependable.
We guarantee these timepieces to rival or surpass any of the top “status-oriented” wristwatches currently in production.
Being true “sleepers”, these wristwatches are for those who prefer to be identified as individuals, with only those in the know recognizing the majesty that is HANHART! (fonte History Preservation Associated).

"Horology Elaborated by Experts", that is visible in all Hebe watches appeared more than a century ago.
It is reflected in all Hebe wrist watch collections, the quality of which has found market acceptance at the international level.
In 1900, Constant Périat opened his own workshop in the heart of Jura region in Switzerland.
At that time the workshop specialized in the assembly of accurate movements and watch complications.
This was the first workshop, where only local residents worked.
One year later in 1901 Constant Périat has launched Hebe Watch.
In 1948, Gilbert Periat, a son of the founder of the workshop, took the business into his hands and built a new workshop, that still remains today in Alle.
The main Periat's goal was to respond to the growing demand in the market of watches.
In 1952 — 1965 HEBE brand reached new international frontiers and its production was met with approval in such countries as China, the United States, Cuba, Turkey and in some African countries.
In 1965 – 1974, HEBE watch company continued to work with natives, developing new products for the international market.
Despite the quartz boom in 1975 — 1990, HEBE company management did not change the line of activity and continued to produce the high-quality watch movements.
The company focused on the remote regions.
However, to survive under these difficult circumstances, the company released a few quart watches.
The watch brand managed to overcome these difficulties under the strict guidance of Héribert PERIAT, a grandson of the brand's founder.
In 1990 - 2007, the company continued to manufacture mechanical watches, and in 2008 it introduced the first beautiful skeleton watches and chronographs at the BaselWorld exhibition.
The skeleton watches with sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating were equipped with Swiss ETA 6498 16 ½ movements, and Valjoux 13 1/4 7750 movements were housed in the chronographs' cases.
Today HEBE watch company is ranked as one of the largest watch manufacturers, that present the watches of a high quality and great design.
Since 2011 the watch company HEBE has new management, which tries to give a new dynamic to the brand and replace it to the highest scene of luxury watches. (fonte Montre24)

Heinrich Geisen German watch company was founded in 1896 and focused on the production of classic watches.
The company was named after its founder, Heinrich Geisen.
The company sticks to the traditional methods of watch production. Heinrich Geisen mechanical watches are made of the finest materials.
The quality of watches optimally correlates with their prices.
The watch brand sets a priority of creating high quality watches at a reasonable prices.
"I make watches for people, who do not follow fashion trends, but prefer the classic examples of watchmaking, made in its best traditions", says Wolfgang Schumacher, the present owner of the company and the founder's grandson.
Heinrich Geisen collection consists of three watch families: Vorschau, Neuheiten, Jubilaum.
(fonte Montre24)