Lady Tortue, so very feminine
Is it still possible to manufacture a pure ladies’ watch? Is this still possible without falling into the eternal so-called female reductions of male models? Women know what they want,…
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Expert Carmelo Armeli: counterfeiters’ terror
Self-employed since 2018, this low-profile expert, one of the best counterfeit detectors in the world, has a long list of prestigious clients. Meet him at one of the watch markets…
Micromechanics, a bright future for bar turners
Being young and in charge of a machine that’ s worth a million francs? It’s possible after training as a bar turner! Here in Tramelan, everything blends perfectly, just like…
Genevaworld 2023 Watch Passport: Some 180 exhibiting brands!
Suppliers, collectors, distributors and retailers. Here is “GenevaWorld 2023” the independent practical guide to the brands and signatures that will be exhibited in Geneva at the end of March 2023.…
Stop your watch, listen! Hey Geneva, your Jet d’Eau is Horlogical
Geneva’s internationally renowned symbol, the jet d’eau, celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2021. In the one Swiss city that perhaps owes the most to watchmaking, no-one has thought to recall…
Coffee talk with Pierre Maudet: a Geneva watchmaking museum?
Pierre Maudet returns to the ballots. Not a political party, just a movement. Just like a watch movement that puts together and on stage components from different horizons, “Libertés et…
Astrid Soyez, watch auctions and light
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…
Rossella Baldi, dossier: “Everywhere, archives treasures…”
In the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH Magazine she wrote an authoritative and enlightening article on archives and databases. An in-depth piece, which highlights both the academic approach to archives and…
H-Development, dedication to watchmaking
If the story starts as a family – H as in Henriksens – with Sven the father and Kim and Kelly his daughters, Yann Mazzon, engineer in microtechnology and company…
Isabelle Cerboneschi, thunderstorms in the world of imagination
For the “Short Supply Routes” special issue of JSH, she authored “Fashion business, a sector in quest of virtue“, a reference article on Ethics. Published in major national news media,…
The dial, by Dr. Helmut CROTT
The work of a lifetime, the book “Le Cadran” by Dr. Helmut Crott (edited by Joël A. Grandjean), the history of the dial in the 20th century, the prestigious history of the Stern dials and of a family that took over the Patek Philippe brand
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