Who owns FREDERIQUE CONSTANT?
FREDERIQUE CONSTANT is owned by Citizen Watch (Japan, TSE: 7762).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: CITIZEN REPORT 2025 (Integrated Report, English), Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Nishi-Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland, Geneva
- Founded
- 1988
- Category
- Apparel, footwear & accessories › Luxury goods › Jewellery & watches
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 7762
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About FREDERIQUE CONSTANT
FREDERIQUE CONSTANT is a Swiss watch brand that the CITIZEN Report 2025 says was established in Geneva in 1988 with the mission of providing classical Swiss-made luxury watches at fair prices. Citizen Watch records that it acquired shares of Frederique Constant in 2016, and the report lists FREDERIQUE CONSTANT HOLDING SA among its overseas group companies. The report says the brand is being added to Citizen and Bulova in North America and will use movements made by La Joux-Perret.
Ownership timeline of FREDERIQUE CONSTANT
- Current owner Citizen Watch [1] reported
Where FREDERIQUE CONSTANT sits in Citizen Watch
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Citizen Watch
Citizen Watch controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
Also in apparel, footwear & accessories
Other brands in jewellery & watches, and who owns them
The 63 brands in jewellery & watches on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Richemont, with 8; Citizen Watch has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| A. Lange & Söhne | Richemont | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| CaratLane | Titan | 🇮🇳 India |
| Blancpain | Swatch Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Bulgari | LVMH | 🇫🇷 France |
| Concord | Movado Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Pandora | Pandora | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| ARTA by PNJ | PNJ | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
| Relic | Fossil Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Citizen Watch
Citizen Watch is a publicly listed company headquartered in Nishi-Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1918. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 7762.
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. is the Tokyo-listed parent of the CITIZEN Group, whose Watches Business was founded in 1918 by Kamekichi Yamazaki. Its CITIZEN Report 2025 gives its securities code as 7762 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market and lists a headquarters in Tanashi-cho, Nishi-Tokyo. The report names CITIZEN, BULOVA and FREDERIQUE CONSTANT as its finished-watch brands, alongside machine tools, devices and electronic products. It records that the group acquired shares of Bulova Corporation in 2008 and of Frederique Constant in 2016.
Citizen Watch: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇨🇭 FREDERIQUE CONSTANT and other Swiss brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 114 brands that began in Switzerland. 33 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, FREDERIQUE CONSTANT among them.
- Blancpain — Swatch Group 🇨🇭
- Concord — Movado Group 🇺🇸
- Hublot — LVMH 🇫🇷
- IWC Schaffhausen — Richemont 🇨🇭
- Victorinox Swiss Army — Victorinox 🇨🇭
- Zodiac — Fossil Group 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of FREDERIQUE CONSTANT?
The parent company of FREDERIQUE CONSTANT is Citizen Watch, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is FREDERIQUE CONSTANT Swiss or Japanese?
FREDERIQUE CONSTANT originated in Switzerland in 1988, but it is owned today by Citizen Watch, which is headquartered in Japan. So FREDERIQUE CONSTANT is a Swiss-origin brand under Japanese ownership.
Is FREDERIQUE CONSTANT still owned by Citizen Watch?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, FREDERIQUE CONSTANT is still owned by Citizen Watch. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] CITIZEN REPORT 2025 (Integrated Report, English) — Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Annual report; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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