Halda manufactured both gold and silver plated pocket watches. Hammarlund thought Svängsta was the ideal location to build a factory, the scenery was beautiful, and the big lot was only 800 Swedish krona, a bargain in those days for being so close to the Mörrum river. This was the year Henning Hammarlund started Sweden’s first pocket watch factory – Halda Fickurfabrik AB, after years of studying at the Swiss Watch making school in Geneva which at the time, was the finest school of its kind. We start our journey with a historic flashback and rewind the clock 134 years, to the year 1887. But did you know it all started with pocket watches? Ambassadeur, Toby, Hi-Lo and Reflex are all well-known product names. Abu Garcia in Svängsta, Sweden is world renowned in the sports fishing tackle world.
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