Rolex buys Bucherer: the crowning achievement of independencies
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Until Rolex announced its takeover of Bucherer, the brand with the crown had only one boutique in the world, in Geneva, in order to comply with cantonal law allowing it to use the city’s name in its branding. Today, it boasts over 100 points of sale… By Joël A. Grandjean, JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch…
‘WhoAreU’ interview with Philippe Delhotal, creative director at Hermès Horloger
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My name is Amandine, I am 12 years old and keen on watchmaking. Since the age of 7, when asked what job I want to do, I answer “watchmaker-designer at Bulgari”… In the meantime, I interview people in the industry. Let’s see today who is Hermès Horloger creative director, Philippe Delhotal. By Amandine, the youngest…
The BA111OD system gives birth to a CHF 3’920.00 tourbillon!
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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…
Parallel times by Claude Meylan
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From his Montreux workshop, Pascal Bettex has been crafting his works over time. Always featuring movement served up in dreams and a playful spirit that illuminates wonders, then suddenly, a Claude Meylan watch floating weightlessly. Albert-J. de Buttes-LaCôte / 1876 News Agency (succ. TàG Press +41) Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter |…
The Atelier du Bracelet, haute couture for timepieces!
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Three passionate founders, easy access in the heart of Geneva’s Rive Droite… Here, a skilful fusion of cosy showroom and workshop where you can witness experts at work. By Emmanuel Alder / JSH Magazine & TàG Press +41’s independent Columnist Write | Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin JSH® SubscribeThe…
Factory Echoes: in the heart of the Blue Moon
Lee Warrien | 1876 News Agency
By recruiting to the Tec Group watchmakers Eric Coudray and Paul Clémenti, two Gaïa prizes, the ardent Arnaud Faivre has brought HYT’s fluids into his workshops. The 41-jewel Caliber 601-MO came out. Backstage tour appeared in the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH. By Lee Warrien, TàG Press +41 contributor for Swiss Watch Passport Insta SWP |…
Mineral glass, the last wizard
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His craft is under threat, and the material he works with is becoming more and more elusive. Christian Calas is looking forward to retirement, and would like to pass on his know-how. Industry’s biggest names are getting involved. Emmanuel Alder / JSH Magazine & TàG Press +41’s indépendant columnist Write to him | Insta SWP…
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The front page of the very first Swiss Watch Journal (Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie, JSH) published in July 1876
Until Rolex announced its takeover of Bucherer, the brand with the crown had only one boutique in the world, in Geneva, in order to comply with cantonal law allowing it to use the city’s name in its branding. Today, it boasts over 100 points of sale… By Joël A. Grandjean, JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport’s Editor in Chief and Publisher Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter…
“Carlo Lamprecht tire son horlogère révérence…” Ainsi débutait en 2018 son portrait pour le magazine Now. Aujourd’hui, à l’heure de son grand départ, ses “Questions de Temps” se chargent de reliefs… Condoléances. Par Joël A. Grandjean / Editeur et Rédacteur en chef de JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin Vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir, mais…
In 2014, JSH, the Swiss Watchmaking Journal, devoted a two-page tribute to her mastery of hand anglage. Today, in addition to her art craft, which requires infinite patience and good eyesight, Nathalie Jean-Louis is all over the place. Joël A. Grandjean, JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport’s editor in chief & publisher Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin All of a sudden, and that’ s…
Giving the time using a disruptive technology from the secrets of silicon – that’s what SilMach presented at Micronora in September 2022. Creative people hit your marks! Laurent Sage / JSH® Magazine Columnist Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin Lire aussi dans JSHAnd now, after the sun, sand, water, mechanics, quartz and connections, the fifth dimension has arrived: they’re called MEMs and their physical dimensions…
ABConcept and ABProduct: nothing in the two company names hints at the vast space in which over 14 trades are carried on, the impressive fleet of machinery and the sudden appearance, on a detour during the visit, of the largest 3D printer on the market. An interview with Aurélien Bouchet while waiting to visit him at EPHJ 2021 in September. Joël A. Grandjean / Editor-in-Chief of JSH® Magazine, for EPHJ…
The world of auction house watch departments never stops revealing personalities worth meeting. Antiquorum has a radiant face coming out of the shadows. Françoise Garnier / Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH 1876 Insta SWP | Insta JSH® | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin JSH Print to downloadAstrid Soyez: Since 2020 at Antiquorum Geneva as Global Sales coordinator, Management Assistant and AuctioneerLaw and political science studies, 6 years at the École du…
{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…
“Few are aware of the amount of skill and ability that goes on in the silence of the workshops,” explains Jean-Claude Engisch, father of Joris, the current director of Singer dials, in the 100th anniversary book . Joël A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s editor in chief Follow on Linkedin – Facebook – Insta JSH – Insta SWP – Subscribe to JSH With a preface by the undisputed Walter von…
Jürgensen 250 years by Dr. Helmut Crott
Till November 4, 2023. These outstanding timepieces are not for sale! They are on display in an ephemeral exhibition at the La Réserve Hotel in Geneva, right in the hubbub of its Phillips auctions. Mythical timepieces patiently collected by Dr. Helmut Crott, an expert collector and father-founder of watch auctions. The finest connoisseur of this Danish dynasty with roots in Le Locle. By Joël A. Grandjean / JSH® Magazine &…
Bennahmias speaks out in favor of suppliers and… of Swiss Made
He is a regular of verbal punchlines! With his leather jacket, he sets the record straight, he turns up the heat and becomes the spokesman for Swiss Made. And he’s throwing down the hammer, taking advantage of the podium provided by the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix ceremony where he was just awarded the supreme distinction, the famous “Aiguille d’Or“. Joël A. Grandjean, JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport’s Editor in…
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 treat words as if they were raw ore crossed by emotions and polished by real life. Joël Grammson, JSH & Swiss Watch Passport (by JSH) Columnist Insta | Linkedin | Facebook | Insta JSH | Insta SWP | S’abonner à JSH Moonboards 2023 Also “this blue of your eyes”, the blues in your heart that turn to slate and cold…
Tavannes Watch is the birth father of the Chronomat
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 | Twitter | Linkedin It’s time to give credit where due and to find in the…
Off-centered watches that follow your gaze
October 28, 2009. Vacheron Constantin is awarded the Watch of the Year prize, conceived more than 15 years ago by the two co-founders of Montres Passion magazine, Kenan Tegin and Joël A. Grandjean. The model awarded Historiques American 1921, shows an asymmetry facilitating the reading of the time and borrowed from the history of the brand. Seductive design effect An American customer, during the Roaring Twenties, would have expressed…
RoyalPop since 1979, the ‘museum truth’ that tickles collectors
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…
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