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Court: Azurea Decoupage takes off
Azurea Decoupage SA, created in January 2023 and until now housed within Azurea Technologie Horlogere SA in Moutier, is inaugurating its own premises in Court. A Shaniah Asha Gibson’s selection…
Watchmaking cutlery began in Neuchâtel, at Les Halles
The ‘terroir’ approaches are made for getting along, and so are those that combine craftsmanship. Watchmaking and cutlery, cousins and accomplices. In Neuchâtel, Place des Halles, a knife that’s creating…
EPHJ by JSH: Thierry Henriod, the alchemist
Henriod SA, alchemy of brilliance, quality under control: nothing suggests from the outside, in the Acacias industrial zone, the generous space available to this Geneva SME with a human face.…
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…
Carbon-neutral gold: reassuring ingots!
This article appeared in the June 2023 issue of JSH. A mechanical watch? It’s easy to repair over 50 years after manufacture, and we’re reluctant to throw it away because…
SilMach: the fifth element
Giving the time using a disruptive technology from the secrets of silicon – that’s what SilMach presented at Micronora in September 2022. Creative people hit your marks! Laurent Sage /…
Mineral glass, the last wizard
His craft is under threat, and the material he works with is becoming more and more elusive. Christian Calas is looking forward to retirement, and would like to pass on…
Positive Coating, visual watchmaking poetry
Ultra-technical expertise sometimes generates poetry… To say that a blue is desaturated, smoky, klein, seram, dove or turquin, is to treat words as if they were raw ore crossed by…
Altair Consulting’s Gelsight magic gel
In handheld mode, the Gelsight is a surface scanner for capturing surface shapes. Already used by the MIT, American scientific police forces and high-tech industries such as ballistic engineering, Gelsight’s…
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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