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Expresso with Raphaël Broye Owner of Panatere

“Our bet is that hyper-globalisation will give way to regionalization” explains this ‘possibilist’ who plans to produce 100% recycled steel in the Jura, without any damage to the environment. Cash…

Short Supply Routes? Overview with the FH President, Jean-Daniel Pasche

{Published in the JSH Special Issue ‘Short Supply Routes’} As the term industrial begins to flourish with common names related to recycling, environmental ethics and carbon footprint measurement, the question…

Krayon Wood

In Neuchâtel, overlooking the lake and a large garden filled with almond trees, Rémi Maillat, the genius watchmaker who has been able to mathematically capture the passing time and who…

Claude Meylan, an ethical showcase full of life

A new 100% recyclable display, made of wood with the specialized workshop Eric Dakkus. A space where watches, such as the latest Collection 66 or Sheherazade, two Lionesses tamed by…

Watchmaking, a hybrid craft at Century

For more than half a century, it has been necessary to invent a profession for which there is no training elsewhere than within the Century Manufacture in Bienne. By Albert-J.…

Gil Sertissage, a mysterious female bust entirely set

{Published on November 24, 2010} Who better than the Atrium studio, the Ziegler couple’s photo workshop in Le Landeron, could photograph the mysterious figurine stone set by Gil Sertissage in…

EPHJ News: Cadramont, bringing the dial into the third millennium

Moving from métiers d’art to micro-series of 250 units or more: that’s the vision of this fiercely independent dial manufacturer. It’s a place like no other, fired by a creativity…

“Time Matters”: Nikolaus Hirsch, The Young Face of Watch Straps

Although he may have one of the most famous names in the watchmaking world and he may already holds the title of Vice President of Sales and Marketing at a…

Haute-gainerie Vaudaux, useful and playful leather

Baby-foot entièrement recouvert de cuir par la haute-gainerie Vaudaux, à Genève. Walking through the EPHJ hallways, year after year, there is one stand that is worth a visit. It’ s…

Rubel & Ménasché, diamantaire à la pointe de l’innovation

Rubel & Ménasché keeps on surprising. The only Parisian diamond manufacturer to have raised its expertise to levels of industrial technicality, in addition to supplying the great Houses of Place…

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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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