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20th EPHJ Exhibition, from June 14 to 17, 2022, at Geneva-Palexpo

Crafts: Estelle Lagarde, gouache artist

19 June 2021

She is a brush and color tubes fairy at a time when mouse-click artists have swept away the meticulous and polished renderings that some actors of the ultimate luxury are still endorsing. These customers are rare, busy as they are with expenses and time overruns. Because it takes an incredible amount of time and an…

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Pentagonal rupturist design, the new Tzoumy Geneva watches on Kickstarter

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

14 October 2021

Nothing new under the sun in the watch design scene. Except for a particularly wearable pentagonal style created by the Geneva watchmaker Yvan Monnet. An affordable Swiss Made watch for wrists that resist mainstream conformity… By Joël A. Grandjean, editor in chief & publisher of Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch & JSH Magazine Insta SWP | Insta JSH® |…

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Cedric Johner, the iconic Abyss returns to life in Paris-Match weekly magazine

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

8 December 2021

Now listed as a cultural attraction by the Geneva Tourist Office, this independent watchmaker, who produces unique timepieces, is driving collectors from all over the world or those who love discoveries into his secret lair: his micro-workshop in Carouge is an Ali-Baba cave, filled with improbable items, as precious as the life of this lonely…

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Presque 20 millions pour une Rolex en acier: au-delà du placement!

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

17 April 2021

Les ventes aux enchères horlogères se sont-elles emballées? Pourtant utile à l’image de l’horlogerie mécanique, la course aux records risque d’éclipser l’intérêt du public pour les nouveautés ou le simple plaisir d’acheter. Surtout si la course s’appelle Daytona! Joël A. Grandjean, éditeur-rédacteur en chef de JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport. S’abonner à JSH…

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Eric Coudray’s time sphere

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

1 December 2021

A talented watch designer, Eric Coudray practises his art at Tec-Group in Vallorbe. He has named his triaxial tourbillon Spherillon in order to simply define its main technical specificity. Proven efficiency! By Vincent Daveau, watchmaker & journalist, historian To be read on the Swiss Watch Journal JSH® – June 2021 Issue Insta SWP | Insta JSH®…

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Patek Philippe, remnants of an electronic timelessness

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

3 September 2021

On auction websites, Patek Philippe radio-controlled timekeeping units are still in circulation. They can also be found from time to time in watch factories. Joël A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’ editor in chief Follow us on Linkedin – Facebook – Insta JSH – Insta SWP – Subscribe to JSH On my way to Fleurier, with…

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ArtyA Son of Sound ‘Union Jack’ chronograph appears in Paris Match French Magazine

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

8 December 2021

It needed to be daring! This shape embodies the upper end of an instrument’s neck, where everything is harmonized and tuned. Yvan Arpa, a rock’n’roll figure of an inventive and no-limit watchmaking, touched by street culture, is here cultivating his penchant for music. He who used to collect, on the floor of their studio, the…

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Short Supply Routes? Overview with the FH President, Jean-Daniel Pasche

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

23 January 2022

{Published in the JSH Special Issue ‘Short Supply Routes’} As the term industrial begins to flourish with common names related to recycling, environmental ethics and carbon footprint measurement, the question of standardisation or regulation arises… Interview. Interview by Joël A. Grandjean / JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport Publisher & Editor in Chief Insta SWP…

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Paris-Match’s choice, AstroLUNA of Vicenterra, the astral Jura Made UFO

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

8 December 2021

Once upon a time, he made a peculiar journey to a world where life hangs by a thread. Vincent Plomb, back on the ground, is creating watches that offer you the view from above, from space, from the sun. It has the odd and complicated appearance of a sidereal gift, a deserved gift of self-worth,…

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Mathey-Tissot brand introduces the San Antonio Signature watch

Public Relations @TRP Cabinet

8 September 2021

Watchmaking: tribute to the famous writer Frédéric Dard who would have been 100 years old in 2021. A limited edition Swiss Made watch numbered 1921 pieces, is celebrating the memory of the most prolific of all French-speaking authors. Available in three versions. @TRP, Texts & Relations, Production 1921-2021. All over the world, the French-speaking world…

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The Luc Tissot visionary, watchmaking-Medtech wisdom

Albert J. de Buttes-LaCôte

13 July 2021

Better than anyone else, the descendant of the Tissot brand dynasty embodies the ideal economic scenario: being able to use a second growth sector during a crisis, in order to survive. By Albert-J. de Buttes-LaCôte / TàG Press +41 news Agency Article published in JSH Magazine, since 1876. Subscribe CHF 18.76 / 2 editions This is…

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First successful Franco-Swiss Forum of the Arc Horloger project

Albert J. de Buttes-LaCôte

29 December 2021

The first Arc Horloger Education Forum was held on Thursday, December 16, 2021, one year to the day after the registration by UNESCO of the know-how of watchmaking and art mechanics in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. JSH® Magazine was part of the event. By Albert J. de Buttes-LaCôte / TàG Press…

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The BA111OD system gives birth to a CHF 3’920.00 tourbillon!

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

14 October 2021

Thomas Baillod, now the “tourbillon troublemaker”, is throwing a spanner in the works! His entirely Swiss Made tourbillon for less than CHF 4’000.00 brings complicated watchmaking to the masses. And as its name suggests, The Veblen Dilemma challenges the foundations of “perceived value”. By Joël A. Grandjean, Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch & JSH Magazine editor in chief Insta…

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Tavannes Watch is the birth father of the Chronomat

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

17 March 2021

Amazing, this Chronomat model of Tavannes Watch from 1946 is very similar to the Breitling’s Chronomat reference 769. What if the history of the mythical calibers of Swiss watchmaking was given a brief overhaul? By Joël A. Grandjean, editor in chief JSH Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook |…

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Gil Sertissage, a mysterious female bust entirely set

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

27 May 2021

{Published on November 24, 2010} Who better than the Atrium studio, the Ziegler couple’s photo workshop in Le Landeron, could photograph the mysterious figurine stone set by Gil Sertissage in La Chaux-de-Fonds? Mysterious brilliances… Who is behind this face, whose haughty attitude brings to mind some pharaonic figure? The artwork is by Miguel Gil in La…

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Short Supply Routes? Overview with the FH President, Jean-Daniel Pasche

Gaïa 2021: the Prize of the Prizes, Carole’s tears…

The Starrag Bumotec that seduces Felix Baumgartner

First successful Franco-Swiss Forum of the Arc Horloger project

ArtyA Son of Sound ‘Union Jack’ chronograph appears in Paris Match French Magazine

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Pilo & Co Genève, les armoiries du 10ème

19 February 2011

[19 February 2011] A coat of arms to celebrate its first decade! Amarildo Pilo has celebrated the tenth anniversary of his brand Pilo & Co Geneva. A journey marked by 11 collections, including the latest Corleone, which stands out from the common watchmaking landscape by a sense of contemporary and seductive design as well as by a claimed accessibility. Its models range from CHF 200.00 to CHF 1,200.00, with the…

Thomas Loosli and Auguste Reymond

18 February 2007

{First published February 18, 2017} Auguste Reymond: Thomas Loosli has taken over the company from his father, a private label specialist. The company has the internationally known brand ARSA (Auguste Reymond SA), specialized watches for blind people. His son decided to develop a second label, Auguste Reymond, and was quite successful at it. Very slow progress, but surely. Mechanical movements only. Communication through “musical” values such as jazz, regularly produces…

Time Matters: Alexis Sarkissian of Totally Worth It: “Watch Distribution great again”

9 March 2021

Crafts: Estelle Lagarde, gouache artist

19 June 2021

Weekly magazine Paris Match: Watches that don’t run round

8 December 2021

Auguste Reymond in brief

16 July 2007

Tavannes Watch is the birth father of the Chronomat

17 March 2021

ArtyA Son of Sound ‘Union Jack’ chronograph appears in Paris Match French Magazine

8 December 2021

Flacons de poudre d’émail chez Anita Porchet

Calme et pleine campagne, le repaire d’Anita Porchet

Célèbre émailleuse face à ses secrets

Anita Porchet, émailleuse légendaire

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Memphis Heritage, Tissot dabbles with the design codes of the Eighties

1 April 2021

Who remembers the Memphis Group, a post-Bauhaus design movement founded in Milan in 1980 by the late designer Ettore Sottsass? By Lee Warrien | JSH News Le Groupe Memphis, fondé par le designer rupturiste Ettore Sottsass a exposé dans plusieurs mégapoles. Ici à Bordeaux. These code breakers, champions of laminated plastic and acid-pop colors, shades that snap and splash, brought into the world of furniture other materials rupturists:…

Patek Philippe, remnants of an electronic timelessness

3 September 2021

Tec-Group, independence, Swiss Made and creative audacity

30 November 2021

Eleven companies, certainly others in the future or in the process of being taken over, financial independence and that verticality which makes it possible to offer an industrial watchmaking journey, including the manufacture of machines, from the decorated manufactured component, through electroplating, to the assembly of the movement. By Joël A. Grandjean / JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport Publisher & Editor in Chief Insta SWP | Insta JSH® |…

Safes never die! Jean Ferner’s lair

28 August 2021

There is magic in this improbable universe at Crêt du Locle inhabited by safes. Certainly the biggest collection of safes in Switzerland, and maybe even in the world? A nightmare place for burglars…. By Ollivier Broto / TàG Press +41 (News Agency) Read the article in JSH® Magazine, issue #01-2021. Subscribe This place is a nod to the history of La Chaux-de-Fonds, since around 1900, the upper town was the…

Tattoos and Swiss watchmaking: Luxury Watches for the „Weird Gentleman“

17 June 2021

{Press Release, June 17, 2021} André Clémençon has launched a new Swiss watch brand onto the market with the intention of revolutionising the design of high-quality men’s watches and to attract a new target group: “The Weird Gentlemen”. The focus is on tattoo art. The design of the watches is strongly inspired by tattoos, and the designated customer group is distinguished by an affinity for the art work on their…

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2013, MCH’s flop. Lausannetec cancelled! The market has (finally) chosen

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

20 February 2013

René Kamm, CEO de MCH et Baselworld, prévoyait “doubler” l’EPHJ avec la lancement à Beaulieu d’un salon concurrent Initially scheduled from May 28 to 31, 2013, the 2nd edition of…

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