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Summer and winter hours? 1907, already in JSH!

Once upon a time, the time change! In 2017 we were even talking about a possible last time. The TV journalist Nicolas Rossé had challenged me on this topic, in…
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Eric Othenin-Girard, RIP!

{2020, May 20} And now you have left to join Nicolas Hayek Senior, to whom you had the attention and the friendship…! May you rest in peace, dear colleague and companion.…
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Geneva Watch Shows: are ‘other’​ brands prohibited at Palexpo? What if the reason were juridical?

On May 7, 2020, on my Linkedin profile, the bomb was posted. It took a confined summer before it exploded in September, on the national television RTS and on the…
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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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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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2013, MCH’s flop. Lausannetec cancelled! The market has (finally) chosen

René Kamm, CEO de MCH et Baselworld, prévoyait “doubler” l’EPHJ avec la lancement à Beaulieu d’un salon concurrent Initially scheduled from May 28 to 31, 2013, the 2nd edition of…
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SAPHIR is a historical episode, not a material

{Published on January 10, 2013} At a time when sapphire has just celebrated its eighty-year introduction in watchmaking, who remembers this holding firm grouping together the companies LeCoultre, Jaeger LeCoultre…
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Günter Blümlein, tribute and memory

Soon in Geneva in January, the SIHH 2013. Which is largely thanks to one man. Flash back. In 1980, two companies had no idea what they would become. IWC and…
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How Geneva buried its world unique watch museum

{Published on 20 December 2011} Genevanities. At a time when a remarkable watchmaking exhibition was transforming the Rath Museum into a showcase of “Gold and Enamel Treasures” until April 29,…
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Audemars Piguet and Montreux Sounds Digital Project

One might have thought that when it comes to communications, everything to do with the Montreux Jazz Festival and Claude Nobs was the preserve of Parmigiani Fleurier. Well, almost everything,…

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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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