The co-founder and chairman of Swatch Group Nicolas Hayek shows a replica of Breguet's famous watch, "Marie-Antoinette," during the Baselworld trade fair 2008, the leading event for the watch and ...

That's exactly what sparked the creation of Smart cars. Back in the early 90s, Nicolas Hayek, the mind behind the Swatch watch, got fed up with city driving. He envisioned a tiny, city-friendly ...

Mr. Swatch, as Hayek is often referred to, is considered one of Switzerland’s 10 wealthiest people, and is ranked 292 among Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people. Though he is chairman and owns ...

In the late 1980s, SMH (makers of the Swatch brand of watches) CEO Nicolas Hayek began working on an idea for a new urban car. He approached several automakers and reached an agreement with ...

That’s when Nicolas G. Hayek came to the rescue. In the spring of 1982, the banks that kept watch companies from going bust tasked the Lebanese-born consultant with writing a report that could ...