| General info : | | Chaumet is the brand name used by Chaumet SA a jeweller based in Paris, founded in 1780.by Marie-Étienne Nitot.
Fourteen artisans ply their trade in the workshop on Place Vendôme under the direction of foreman Pascal Bourdariat.
Marie-Étienne Nitot (1750–1809) settled in Paris in 1780 after having served his apprenticeship at Aubert, then jeweller to Queen Marie-Antoinette. His aristocratic clientele remained loyal to him until the French Revolution in 1789. It was after this that the Nitot jewellery house really took off, becoming the official jeweller of Napoleon I in 1802.
After their fraudulent bankruptcy, Chaumet was bought in 1987 by Investcorp, a leading Bahrain-based investment bank. The company lost 10 million francs in 1995–1997, but became profitable again in 1998, with a revenue of 280 million francs, and was bought by LVMH in October 1999.
In 2010/2011, the company's estimated sales were €60 million in total sales and €30 million in watches.[ | |
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| Source : | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaumet (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaumet) | |
| Websites | | https://www.chaumet.com/gb_en/ (www.chaumet.com/gb_en/) | |
| Relations : | | Brand name used by : Chaumet SA | |
| Relations : | | Brand name used by : LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA1999 - | |
| Relations : | | Founded by : Marie-Étienne Nitot1780 | |
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