JEAN-CLAUDE BIVER
SF100 – 200 million
Biver is the chairman and former CEO of Hublot SA, which is a subsidiary of LVMH.
DE WITT FAMILY
SF100 – 200 million
Jérôme de Witt, a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte, is the founder of the DeWitt watch company. (Click here to watch a video interview with Jerome de Witt, conducted at the 2012 Baselworld.)
MACALUSO FAMILY
SF100 – 200 million
Luigi “Gino” Macaluso purchased Girard-Perregaux in 1992 and developed the Sowind Group, which PPR (now Kering) bought in 2011. Macaluso died in 2010. Today his widow, Monica Mailander Macaluso, is vice chairman of the Sowind Group and his sons Stefano and Massimo are also involved in the business. (Click here to read more about Gino Macaluso.)
FRANCK MULLER
SF100 – 200 million
Muller is co-founder of the Franck Muller Group.
VARTAN SIRMAKES
SF100 – 200 million
Sirmakes co-founded Franck Muller with the eponymous watchmaker in 1991. He is CEO of the group.
ERNST THOMKE
SF100 – 200 million
In the 1980s, Thomke was the second most powerful man in the Swatch Group (then called SMH) after Nicolas G. Hayek. Thomke and Hayek steered the Swiss watch industry through the quartz crisis. Thomke left SMH in 1992 and became a successful consultant.
