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10:101stEVENTS & PEOPLEGaïa AwardsJSH® PRINTW'NEWS
The 2025 Gaïa Awards, aka “Watchmaking’s Nobel Prizes” are given to…
Award ceremony on September 18, at the MIH in La Chaux-de-Fonds: the Gaïa Prize jury nominates Roger W. Smith, Helmut Crott, and Jean-Jacques Paolini in the categories “Craftsmanship, Creation,” “History,…

10:101stFEEDBACK FROM FACTORIESOPINIONSUPPLIERSW'NEWSWHO’S
Watchmaking in grief: sudden passing of Boris Petitpierre
An essential behind-the-scenes figure in Swiss watchmaking, Boris Petitpierre passed away suddenly and much too soon. Read the micro portrait that the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH dedicated to him, between…

10:101stCRAFTSEVENTS & PEOPLEFAMOUS WATCHMAKERSGaïa AwardsJSH® PRINTOPINION
Decease of Jean-Pierre Hagmann, father of the Star Caliber
An unreplaceable page has just been turned, a crucial chapter has ended. Fortunately, he began to be recognized during his lifetime, and the inevitable tributes to come will add their…
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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