Patek Philippe, remnants of an electronic timelessness
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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…
Miki Eleta’s mechanical universe
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Artists like Miki Eleta are defying the limits of the imagination. In 2022, the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH devoted a double-page spread to him, which he discovered the following year when he was exhibiting in the space devoted to the AHCI, of which he is a member. Joël A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s editor…
Crafts: Estelle Lagarde, gouache artist
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Estelle on M6TVEstelle on France3 TVRead also Ba111odEstelle Lagarde, Gouacheuse, en pleine réalisation d’une TAG Heuer Elle est une fée des pinceaux et des tubes de couleurs à l’heure où les artistes du clic de la souris ont balayé d’un revers de paume les rendus léchés et minutieux que certains acteurs du luxe ultime…
Elizabeth Hiscott: from watchmaking texts to the status of artist in Berlin
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Having translated numerous articles for the watchmaking press, a British English copywriter uses the industry as a springboard to secure her artist status in Berlin and now embarks on her first film script! A review of the life of Elizabeth Hiscott… By Anna Aznaour / Independent journalist, member of the editorial board of JSH Magazine Write…
‘WhoAreU’ interview: CEO of de Bethune, Pierre Jacques
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My name is Amandine, I am 11 years old. I am keen on watchmaking and, since the age of 7, when asked what job I want to do, I answer “watchmaker-designer at Bulgari”. In the meantime, I do interviews with people involved in the industry. By Amandine, the youngest Swiss Watch Passport columnist Portrait Amandine | Insta…
Fanny Queloz: craftsmanship at Concepto
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Recipient of the Veuve Clicquot Bold Future Award 2022, former elite sportswoman Fanny Queloz was a panellist at the Arc Horloger roundtable of the Festival Suisse de l’Horlogerie 2024. She is an expert engraver and entrepreneur. Joël A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s editor in chief Follow JSH on Linkedin – Facebook – Insta JSH…
Textual Story, 10 years of fiction format in 2024
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Watchmaking, medias. The “textual story“, which casts a watchmaking object in didactic fiction, appeared on October 10, 2014 under the writing of specialist journalist Joël A. Grandjean. It is still going on today in the online magazine Swiss Watch Passport (by JSH). Lee Warrien, JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport’s Columnist Insta SWP | Insta…
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The front page of the very first Swiss Watch Journal (Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie, JSH) published in July 1876
Concepto fête les 20 ans de sa fondation par Valérien Jaquet. Deux décennies de co-création, d’invention, de croissance, appuyées sur une intégration verticale complète. Le résultat, une manufacture totale, du spiral au mouvement fini, synonyme de fiabilité reconnue. De quoi propulser le Groupe et ses sept filiales dans le futur. Une sélection de Shaniah Asha Gibson / @TRP, Cabinet d’écritures et d’influence Insta | Linkedin | Facebook | Insta JSH | Insta SWP | S’abonner à JSH 26 juin 2026. Sous…
Beyond the current “AP x Swatch” buzz, with the perspective befitting the oldest Swiss watchmaking journal — celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2026 — the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH reminds us that the bold Audemars Piguet had already dared to release a pop version of its Royal Oak as early as 1979… Joël A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s editor in chief Follow on Linkedin – Facebook – Insta JSH…
Upstairs, there is the showroom for the high-end automotive brand Lamborghini. On the lower first floor, the Swiss subsidiary of the Niru Group is machining components for the jewelry and watchmaking industries. This is Starrag’s Bumotec s191V manufacturing center. By Henri-Maxime Khedoud, Journalist Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin Link between the achieved watch and the machine This workshop performs in the luxury sector, in…
August 2013. The company, a privileged partner of the watchmaking and jewelry industry, is developing SAP Business All-in-One, a solution that meets the high requirements of this sector. Among the many services that Cisel Informatique SA can provide, there is the management of orders for pure precious metal and alloying, the registration of scrap and waste, and the recycling of fine metals. This is just one example of the services…
Just as the brand has been bought by Breitling, the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH digs up a historical treasure: this article appeared in its Basel Fair special edition of January-February 1941. A delightful reread… Joël A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s editor in chief & Publisher Follow JSH on Linkedin – Facebook – Insta JSH – Insta SWP – S’abonner à JSH Switzerland’s oldest watchmaking journal, launched in 1876, was…
Laurent Barotte, Nico de Rooij and Edouard Meylan are the 2022 laureates of the award considered to be the “Nobel of watchmaking”. Respectively in the categories “Craftsmanship and Creation”, “History and Research” and “Entrepreneurship”. Shaniah Asha Gibson’s selection / @TRP, Public Relations Cabinet Insta | Linkedin | Facebook | Insta JSH | Insta SWP | S’abonner à JSH The 2022 edition of the Prix Gaïa pays tribute to watchmaking talents and once again confirms…
Amandine (watch_it_with_amandine), the youngest watch columnist, reviews her discovery of the historical archives of the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH. At Maison de l’Horlogerie, Geneva: from the very first issue in July 1876 to the latest edition in 2024! Joël A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s Editor in chief Follow on Linkedin – Facebook – Insta JSH – Insta SWP – S’abonner à JSH
Read in JSH: Sebastian Gautsch is leaving his position as director of the microtechnology department at EPFL to take over as director of the Fondation Suisse pour la Recherche en Microtechnique. He is replacing Philippe Fischer, who passed away unexpectedly. Lee Warrien & Joël A. Grandjean JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin | JSH’s Subscription Read the Philippe Fischer…
Philippe Perret du Cray, aka PPDC
Better known by his diminutive nickname PPDC, Philippe Perret du Cray, General Secretary of the JSH, Archives & Patrimoine association, fell into the watchmaking pot even before the 3rd millennium: watchmaking passion, in all its forms. Pillar of the relaunch of the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH. By Joël A. Grandjean / Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin PPDC advocates performance that he helps to…
Code 41, the irritating lessons giver: false gurus are out!
Unashamedly spitting in the soup that has fed you? A former watch designer for brands that have added some prestige to his CV, Claudio d’Amore, founder of Code 41, exists by calling others bandits. By Joël A. Grandjean, Editor in Chief JSH Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport In “It’s going to get out” mode, the designer turns himself into a community builder and, to get there faster, kicks…
LTM, an apart Manufacture: great ambitions and… small calibres!
{Article originally featured in JSH 2022}. Only a few professionals know it as LTM, an industrial pearl from Fleuris dedicated to watch movements. Behind this initials stands Le Temps Manufactures, the most discreet movement maker on the market. By Vincent Daveau, watchmaker, journalist and historian Read it on the Swiss Watch Journal JSH®, special issue SSC Société Suisse de Chronométrie Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin…
Amazing: it was Louis Moinet who invented the chronograph!
March 21, 2013 (first posted). Incredible! Imagine if a video was released of a man walking on the moon ten years before Neil Armstrong and that the scientists of Houston were on these images talking to each other through iPhones! The news would be quite disturbing. The revelation made today in Neuchâtel is shaking up the entire watchmaking industry in equal measure. Ten years before the invention of Nicolas Mathieu…
October 10 in 2020, the first World watchmaking day?
Today is the 10th of October 2020, and it’ s 10.10 am. That’ s the time I chose to share with you a crazy dream: what if, starting from the 10:10 watchmaker’s hour, i.e. the “smiling” position of the hands of a watch, a world watchmaking day could be born? Joël A. Grandjean, JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport’s editor-in-chief and publisher Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook |…
Short Supply Routes? Overview with the FH President, Jean-Daniel Pasche
{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 | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin Not everyone can write the word…
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Positive Coating, visual watchmaking poetry
Ultra-technical expertise sometimes generates poetry… To say that a blue is desaturated, smoky, klein, seram, dove or turquin, is to…
In 2008, Chromalight, the luminescence according to Rolex
{04 November 2028} In addition to the many improved performances of the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller Deepsea, the famous professional…
From watch straps to the birth of a group
Appeared in the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH in 2021. Operating in the production of steel wristbands and supplying numerous watch…
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Major watch maker Henri Grandjean back to life thanks to after-sales service
Soon in Geneva in January, the SIHH 2013. Which is largely thanks to one man. Flash back. In 1980, two companies had no idea what they would become. IWC and…
