Admit it, you’ve never been quite sure if you’re pronouncing all your favorite watch brands correctly. No need to stress any longer, the experts at Crown & Caliber are here to help. Listed below are the phonetic pronunciations of the more difficult watch names. So study up, and you’ll be sounding like a true timepiece connoisseur in no time.
A. Lange & Söhne – ah LAHN guh and ZO nuh
Audemars Piguet – AWE duh mahr PEE gay
Baume & Mercier – BOWM and MURSE ee ay
Blancpain – BLAHNK pan
Bovet – BO vay
Breguet – BREH gay
Breitling – BRITE ling
BVLGARI – BUL guh ree
Cartier – KARR tee ay
Chopard – show PARD
Corum – KOR um
Ebel – ee BELL
Franck Muller – FRAHNK MYOU ler
Girard-Perregaux – zhee RAHRD PAIR uh go
Glashütte Original – glass HOO tuh or ig in AHL
Hublot – U blow
IWC Schaffhausen – I W C shaff HOWZ in
Jaeger-LeCoultre – zhey ZHER leh KOOLT
Longines – LAWN jeen
Louis Vuitton – loo ee vwee TAHN
Montblanc – MOHNT BLAHNK
Movado – muh VAH doe
Omega – o MAY guh
Patek Philippe – pah TEK fill EEP
Piaget – pee ah ZHAY
TAG Heuer – TAG HOI ur
Tissot – TEE so
Ulysse Nardin– you LEESE nahr DAN (last syllable is a short, nasal “a” with the “n” almost silent)
Universal Geneve – Universal jeh NEV
Vacheron Constantin – VASH er ahn kon stan TAN (last syllable is like that of Ulysse Nardin)
Van Cleef & Arpels – VAN CLEEF and ahr PELL
Zenith – ZEH nith
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