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Neprosolar 1976 edition, cult watch back in the global trend

First introduced at the 1976 Basel Fair, the Neprosolar returns 50 years after the creation of this avant-garde timeless design, like a return to the future. A Shaniah Asha Gibson’s…
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JSH in 1893: Dennison and the watch industry in the United States

In 1894, 18 years after its foundation, the “Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie” JSH published an overview of the American watchmaking industry. At this time of new customs threats and the rebirth…
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Joray Wyss: the unfindable “concentricity tester”

{Appeared in the “Joray & Wyss 80 years” JSH’s Hors-Série}. A little rummaging in the attics of Joray & Wyss history has yielded a unique machine that will delight vintage…
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Publisher Watchprint releases two ‘Rolex Cosmograph Daytona’ volumes

After the success of 2014’s ‘Moonwatch Only‘, the Swiss publishing company is once again publishing its two authors Anthony Marquié and Grégoire Rossier: two books on the legendary Rolex model…
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Legends & Myths, the Universal and the Spoiled Child

{Published in JSH 01-2020} Today, my Universal and I are in our 70s… It has never needed a repair or inspection service, and continues to tick off the hours without…
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“Moses, one of the rarest automaton watches

This rare timepiece, proposed by the collector Dr. Helmut Crott, embodies the quintessence of the watch’s complications, the good taste of Empress Eugenie and the top level of Geneva’s early…
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JSH (1876) has acquired all of The Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie’s archives

Rescued from a Kafkaesque journey that could have extinguished them forever, the whole archives of JSH, the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie founded in 1876, have just reappeared. The information is relevant…
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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 1941, Universal in JSH: new factory in Les Pont-de-Martel

Just as the brand has been bought by Breitling, the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH digs up a historical treasure: this article appeared in its Basel Fair special edition of January-February…
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Pierre Amstutz, Swiss watchmaking is in mourning

Sad news: Pierre Amstutz passed away suddenly on 2023 November 10th, in his 55th year. Director of the Geneva School of Watchmaking since September 2009, he was about to celebrate…

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