Compagnie Financière Richemont SA engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of luxury goods. It operates through the following segments: Jewellery Maisons, Specialist Watchmakers, and Other. The Jewellery Maisons segment designs, manufactures, and distributes jewellery products comprised of Buccellati, Cartier, and Van Cleef and Arpels. The Specialist Watchmakers segment offers precision timepieces, which comprises Piaget, A. Lange and Sohne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, Officine Panerai, IWC Schaffhausen, Baume & Mercier, and Roger Dubuis. The Other segment includes Montblanc, Alfred Dunhill, Chloé, Peter Millar, Azzedine Alaia, investment property companies, and other manufacturing entities. The company was founded by Johann Peter Rupert in September 1988 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Switzerland.