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Presque 20 millions pour une Rolex en acier: au-delà du placement!
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…
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Dr. Helmut Crott: Horological auctions owe him their hundreds of millions
Although less well known than Antiquorum founder Osvaldo Patrizzi, expert collector Dr. Helmut Crott is, like Patrizzi, the forerunner of worldwide watch auctions. We owe him the first thematic auction…
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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…
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Audemars Piguet and Montreux Sounds Digital Project
One might have thought that when it comes to communications, everything to do with the Montreux Jazz Festival and Claude Nobs was the preserve of Parmigiani Fleurier. Well, almost everything,…
Le cadran, par le 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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