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Historic relief: Tissot’s new caliber

{Released on July 8, 2010, bloghorloger.ch} The new C01-211 calibre, an automatic chronograph exclusively developed for Tissot (and Swatch) in collaboration with ETA, has arrived in Tissot’s high-volume production… By…
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H. Moser & Cie, a flawless watchmaker: an exhibition by Denis Asch

{Published on July 5, 2010} An invitation to join L’Heure Asch is always welcome. The boutique is to retail watchmaking what Carlo Crisci’s Cerf is to Swiss gastronomy: inventive, consistent,…
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2010: the facial oscillating rotor, already invented in 1995…!

In March 2008, bloghorloger.ch tracked down patent No. CH 685363, issued on 30 November 1995 and relating to the first self-winding timepiece with a facial rotor (not to be confused…
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Off-centered watches that follow your gaze

October 28, 2009. Vacheron Constantin is awarded the Watch of the Year prize, conceived more than 15 years ago by the two co-founders of Montres Passion magazine, Kenan Tegin and…
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Cyma’s 150th anniversary

{September 2009} In three years, the 150th anniversary. Let’s hope that the Locle-based brand, born in 1862, which was somewhat deprived of its past and its historical wealth by several years…
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In 2008, Chromalight, the luminescence according to Rolex

{04 November 2028} In addition to the many improved performances of the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller Deepsea, the famous professional deep-sea diving watch relaunched by Rolex, the Chromalight is a…
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Hamilton and Hollywood, both H’s linked since 1951

{October 13, 2008} The shared story of these two “H “s starts underwater. The divers in the Oscar-winning film “The Frogmen” are all wearing Hamilton. The message was received loud…
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WWF targets India’s wrists

{Published on September 22, 2008, bloghorloger.ch} India is turning to the green: Titan, the Indian manufacturer affiliated to Tata Holding, has just signed an agreement with the WWF to manufacture…
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Carl F. Bucherer, the movement

{June 30, 2008} Bruno Jufer is the Executive Vice President of Bucherer Montres SA, aka Carl F. Bucherer (the brand name), after having worked for Desco and Maurice Lacroix. He…
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The very secret metronomic second…

{Published on June 19, 2008} Metronomic Second. When you look at the dial of the automatic watch designed by Fabrizio Cavalca for Steinway & Sons, you can see through the…

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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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