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Historic rediscovery: Henri Grandjean Observatory Tourbillon

Mentioned in a reference book devoted to the Tourbillon, Henri Grandjean’s “El Cronometro Torbellino” was a star attraction at the 1872 National Exhibition in Lima. It definitively links the name…

In the midst of the Festival, “Emmanuelle Welfelé, enamel and miniature painting”

Festival Suisse d’Horlogerie 2025: because she almost always “liked” my posts on Linkedin and Instagram, she deserved to be featured in the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH. Thanks to the third…

The prestigious Gaïa Award 2025 goes to Helmut Crott

“History, Research” category. Unique en son genre, le Prix Gaïa, surnommé le “Nobel de l’horlogerie“, The unique Prix Gaïa aka the “Nobel Prize of watchmaking, honours the very best: those…

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,…

Xavier Dietlin’s furtive “Raptor Shield”

First published in the JSH Magazine: “He has been living with his famous Raptors for 20 years. In his showroom, he tests them, makes them reliable, and challenges them. Today,…

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…

Textual story. Narrative of a historical sheet, the Neprosolar

Up to 2025, I’m back! Rescued from a trip to the dump, along with thousands of other small sheets belonging to a fascinating archive, I survived the Basel Fair! My…

Groh+Ripp: loved by the best in watchmaking

Over the past 20 years, the watchmaking industry has invested a lot of energy in vertical integration. However, even today, it still depends on specialists in many cases, some of…

Parallel times by Claude Meylan

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…

World Watch Day: Unity is strength

Editorial note: ‘ProWatCH, Culture & Savoirs Horlogers Suisses’ and ‘JSH Archives & Patrimoine’ invite all players they have contacted between 2020 and 2025 to join the initiative launched in Geneva on…

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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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