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Thomas Baillod, Linkedin ambassador?

He regularly occupies the media spotlight, giving himself a few splashes that sometimes irritate, sometimes delight. Between two Webinars, including training sessions launched online long before the coronaïc age (“Watch…
10:101stBRANDSEVENTS & PEOPLEOPINION

Neuchâtel: case of poison-pen letters in swiss watchmaking community

The man*, former co-founder of a high-end brand, CEO in sight, has confessed. Several criminal complaints have been filed and he has just been sentenced. The charges are extremely serious.…
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September: Neuchâtel hosts the first 2021 watch exhibition

From September 1 to 6, 2021, Carlo Naldi’s Imagination event, initially planned for Lausanne Beaulieu, will transform the Beaulac Hotel and surroundings into a promising vessel for a watchmaking industry…
10:10EVENTS & PEOPLEFAMOUS WATCHMAKERSMARKETS

Auction in Hong Kong: Neuchâtel deprived of three heritage treasures?

On April 25, 2021, under the auspices of Antiquorum, three gousset watches of priceless heritage value for the canton of Neuchâtel may evaporate in Hong Kong: Ditisheim, Breguet, Grandjean, three…
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Dr. Helmut Crott: Horological auctions owe him their hundreds of millions

Although less well known than Antiquorum founder Osvaldo Patrizzi, expert collector Dr. Helmut Crott is, like Patrizzi, the forerunner of worldwide watch auctions. We owe him the first thematic auction…
10:101stEVENTS & PEOPLEOPINIONSUPPLIERS

Bennahmias speaks out in favor of suppliers and… of Swiss Made

He is a regular of verbal punchlines! With his leather jacket, he sets the record straight, he turns up the heat and becomes the spokesman for Swiss Made. And he’s…
EVENTS & PEOPLEMATERIALSSUPPLIERSTime MattersWHO’S

“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…
10:10DISTREVENTS & PEOPLETime MattersWHO’S

Time Matters: Alexis Sarkissian of Totally Worth It: “Watch Distribution great again”

About North America, including the Caribbean, he knows all the players, all the features and even, from the handlebars of his motorcycle, most of the side roads. His latest conquests?…
10:10EVENTS & PEOPLEOPINIONW'NEWS

October 10 in 2020, the first World watchmaking day?

Today is the 10th of October 2020, and it’ s 10.10 am. That’ s the time I chose to share with you a crazy dream: what if, starting from the…
10:10EVENTS & PEOPLEHISTORICAL FEATURESOPINION

Geneva Watch Shows: are ‘other’​ brands prohibited at Palexpo? What if the reason were juridical?

On May 7, 2020, on my Linkedin profile, the bomb was posted. It took a confined summer before it exploded in September, on the national television RTS and on 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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