Paul Bernard Vogel was a Swiss industrialist who owned the Solvil et Titus watch manufacture.
For the other brand, it started producing lower-cost watches that fit the emerging mass consumption markets.
[4] Vogel had foreseen the necessities of broadening the market for watches and of creating an international distribution system and consequently decided to expand Solvil et Titus activities overseas.
The couple was part of the small social circle of industrialist families that led the Swiss watch industry of the time and they both were prominent members of Geneva's high society.
His extensive art collection comprised works of such foremost artists as Picasso, Matisse, Kees van Dongen, Vuillard, Degas or Caillebotte.