Sandoz Swiss manufactures high quality watches, while Sandoz Hong Kong and Sandoz Singapore manufacture cheaper watches of lower quality. All of these produce watches under the Sandoz name, but each production company has its own line of products. This has led to four separate brands, Sandoz Singapore, Sandoz Hong Kong, Sandoz Swiss, and Sandoz Spain (Munreco). Since 1971 the Sandoz brand name has been split into four main areas of production, due to its licences being leased or sold. By 1938, it was manufacturing four thousand items a day. After the death of Sandoz, the company he founded went on growing. Other names used by the Tavannes company at various times include Tavannes-Cyma, Bijou Watch Co., Tacy Watch Co., and Lisca. Sandoz was reported to have a paternalistic policy towards his workforce, exercising a fierce social control. The enterprise occupied a 'model factory' employing one thousand workers and producing 2,500 watches a day. By the time of the death of Sandoz on 18 March 1913, many watches were made under the name of Henri Sandoz & Fils. Their new business was known as Tavannes Watch Co.
In 1890, in partnership with two families named Schwob, Sandoz established a watchmaking firm at Malleray, near Tavannes, in the French-speaking Bernese Jura of Switzerland.
Henri Frédéric Sandoz (sometimes Frédéric Henri Sandoz), born in 1851, was a self-made man of Le Locle who in the 1870s founded Henri Sandoz & Cie., later producing complicated watches under the name of Cyma. Dr Bernard Cheong, founder of Lifeline Medical Group, is also one of Singapore’s most prominent watch collectors. There are now many variations of the Sandoz name which are used by at least four different companies around the world. Sandoz is a Swiss watch brand, originally established in the late 19th century by Henri Sandoz near Tavannes, Switzerland.