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Arinis, deep love at first sight on the lake bed

Like myself, a small thousand-year-old log, she is dreaming about seeing the sea. She has opened her heart and her dial to me, in the smooth depths of the Swiss…

“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…

Textual Story, 10 years of fiction format in 2024

Watchmaking, medias. The “textual story“, which casts a watchmaking object in didactic fiction, appeared on October 10, 2014 under the writing of specialist journalist Joël A. Grandjean. It is still…

‘No branding’ trend: Christian Etienne, the restorative label

Appeared in the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH®. Was he dreaming of a collection? From Porrentruy, this expert in antique watch restoration is establishing a name for himself by refurbishing a…

Career: Amande, young polymechanic

A future in watchmaking, working with it or for it, is not just a man’s choice. At a time when the industry is facing a shortage of vocations, Amande Berclaz…

Patek Philippe Museum: two bestseller volumes

“The Emergence of The Watch” and “The Quest for the Perfect Watch,” the two 104-page volumes are available for around 50 Swiss francs in a collector’s set at the Musée…

LTM, an apart Manufacture: great ambitions and… small calibres!

{Article originally featured in JSH 2022}. Only a few professionals know it as LTM, an industrial pearl from Fleuris dedicated to watch movements. Behind this initials stands Le Temps Manufactures,…

AstroLuna and the Qlock hours

Swiss online retailer Qoqa, founded by Pascal Meyer from the Jura region, has entered the watchmaking market, adding hundreds of thousands of consumers to its community. More than 50,000 watches…

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…

2023 Geneva Grand Prix: a crown for independents!

Sven Andersen didn’t make the podium with his rather sober “Jumping Hours Rising Sun Edition” in platinum, but shared the Jury’s special prize with Vincent Calabrese: in 2025, their baby…

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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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