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Memphis Heritage, Tissot dabbles with the design codes of the Eighties

Who remembers the Memphis Group, a post-Bauhaus design movement founded in Milan in 1980 by the late designer Ettore Sottsass?   By Lee Warrien | JSH News Le Groupe Memphis,…
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Tavannes Watch is the birth father of the Chronomat

Amazing, this Chronomat model of Tavannes Watch from 1946 is very similar to the Breitling’s Chronomat reference 769. What if the history of the mythical calibers of Swiss watchmaking was…
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Tavannes Watch is the biological father of the Chronomat

Astonishing! This Tavannes Watch model from 1946, called Chronomat, looks very similar to the Breitling Chronomat reference 769. So suppose the history of legendary Swiss watchmaking calibers was revised a…
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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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duManège timepieces, the DM-Exploration Silver Edition goes public

Montres duManège, the only Swiss brand of watches to display the name La Chaux-de-Fonds on its dials, is launching a timepiece that is almost architectural in style. The world of…
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The iconic Bichrono from LaCour has joined Geneva’s watchmaking heritage

{July 2013} The urban designer Pierre Koukjian, also known as an artist and sculptor, sees everything in double. Because none of his clients would purchase his Bichrono model, he created…
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Women fall in love with the Calatrava 7200

Fifty percent of the Patek Philippe novelties presented at Baselworld 2013 were dedicated to women. Increasingly, women are making great strides in the world of mechanical timepieces. Privileging primary values,…
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ArtyA, shooting live bullets in the luxury target

February 2013. Inspired by a street culture that transforms its unique pieces into real happenings, Yvan Arpa ventures an improbable wedding: high-end watches and firearms.   Yvan Arpa détourne les…
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Diane Kruger: “My relationship with Jaeger LeCoultre is organic”

(September 2012) Yes, the most famous stars are also sensitive targets for Swiss watch beauties. So history and products work for brands, much more than their marketing and PR departments.…
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Off-centered watches that follow your gaze

October 28, 2009. Vacheron Constantin is awarded the Watch of the Year prize, conceived more than 15 years ago by the two co-founders of Montres Passion magazine, Kenan Tegin and…

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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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