Saint Lucia: Konrad Wagner, Swiss consul with a sea view
Honorary Consul of Switzerland in Saint Lucia, Konrad Wagner is also the owner of one of the island’s most authentic hotels, the Calabash Cove Resort & SPA. Joël A. Grandjean,…
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Caribbean Hours, Swiss brands at Sugar Beach
Sugar Beach, spa resort. Here, in “La Baie de Silence,” with their feet in the water at “Forbidden Beach” facing the Pitons—wonders of the world—celebrities get married or renew their…
Tom, watch distributor in Saint Lucia
Once a year, we used to meet up in Basel! Since the demise of Baselworld, I now have to visit him at his place, just outside Castries, on the way…
JSH on TV, in Rolex ‘s boss’s portrait
“The man who whispers in Donald Trump’s ear!” Thus begins the portrait of Jean-Frédéric Dufour, CEO of Rolex, on Swiss national television. Suddenly, in the middle of a report by…
Crossed faces at the FSRM
Read in JSH: Sebastian Gautsch is leaving his position as director of the microtechnology department at EPFL to take over as director of the Fondation Suisse pour la Recherche en…
Watchmaking in grief: sudden passing of Boris Petitpierre
An essential behind-the-scenes figure in Swiss watchmaking, Boris Petitpierre passed away suddenly and much too soon. Read the micro portrait that the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH dedicated to him, between…
Textual story. Narrative of a historical sheet, the Neprosolar
Up to 2025, I’m back! Rescued from a trip to the dump, along with thousands of other small sheets belonging to a fascinating archive, I survived the Basel Fair! My…
200 Years Later, Still on Time
Have you ever seen a woman on stilts walking around with a giant clock on her back? Because I have now. And somehow, that wasn’t even the most surprising part…
Groh+Ripp: loved by the best in watchmaking
Over the past 20 years, the watchmaking industry has invested a lot of energy in vertical integration. However, even today, it still depends on specialists in many cases, some of…
Hats off, Christian Wipfli! Time To Watches moves to Villa Sarasin
Tuesday 1 to Sunday 6 April 2025: the ticket office for the Time To Watches exhibition is open! Behind this ever-growing event, organizer Christian Wipfli. His relationship to time and…
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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