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Diamonds are girls’ best friends

The setter Shant Ghouchian welcomed our columnist Amandine and her friend into his JWS workshop with a radiant smile, indicative of an artisan who loves what he does and enjoys…
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Textual Story, 10 years of fiction format in 2024

Watchmaking, medias. The “textual story“, which casts a watchmaking object in didactic fiction, appeared on October 10, 2014 under the writing of specialist journalist Joël A. Grandjean. It is still…
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‘No branding’ trend: Christian Etienne, the restorative label

Appeared in the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH®. Was he dreaming of a collection? From Porrentruy, this expert in antique watch restoration is establishing a name for himself by refurbishing a…
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Career: Amande, young polymechanic

A future in watchmaking, working with it or for it, is not just a man’s choice. At a time when the industry is facing a shortage of vocations, Amande Berclaz…
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Patek Philippe Museum: two bestseller volumes

“The Emergence of The Watch” and “The Quest for the Perfect Watch,” the two 104-page volumes are available for around 50 Swiss francs in a collector’s set at the Musée…
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Major watch maker Henri Grandjean back to life thanks to after-sales service

The Association “Henri Grandjean, Valeurs & Héritage” has achieved a premiere: by assigning the after-sales service of a bygone brand to one of the 21st century’s most talented watchmaker-restorers, The…
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LTM, an apart Manufacture: great ambitions and… small calibres!

{Article originally featured in JSH 2022}. Only a few professionals know it as LTM, an industrial pearl from Fleuris dedicated to watch movements. Behind this initials stands Le Temps Manufactures,…
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JSH Archives: Nobel Prize winner Guillaume, 1st SSC honorary member

In the December 1924 issue of Switzerland’s oldest watchmaking journal, the JSH: it’s 2 months after Saturday 4 October 1924, when the Société Suisse de Chronométrie was established in Geneva.…
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In Saint-Imier, the Froidevaux group’s steel

His CDH20.20 steel releases so little nickel that it cannot be allergenic. When it comes to sharing his knowledge of steelmaking, Henri Machwirth combines his specialist skills with a hefty…
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The Urwerk AMC, atomic time encapsulated on the wrist

Housed in a watch connected to a suitcase that looks like a president’s with the ultimate weapon, the atomic precision that Félix Baumgartner and Martin Frei celebrate manages to transfer…

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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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