Founded in 1912 in Switzerland by Walter Vogt, FORTIS manufactured their first chronographs on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. They were among the range of Swiss brands with high technical expertise and alongside the production of the most precise mechanical chronographs

After endurance tests on the margins of physics, the Star City Training Centre famously chose FORTIS as part of their official cosmonauts equipment, presented to the crew of EUROMIR 1. It became the world's first automatic chronograph in open space outside the space station and exactly 10 years after the first official flight, FORTIS remains as the exclusive supplier of manned space missions authorized by the Russian Federal Space Agency - testament to the outstanding quality and popularity
of FORTIS watches.

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