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Eric Othenin-Girard, RIP!

{2020, May 20} And now you have left to join Nicolas Hayek Senior, to whom you had the attention and the friendship…! May you rest in peace, dear colleague and companion.…
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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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Amazing: it was Louis Moinet who invented the chronograph!

March 21, 2013 (first posted). Incredible! Imagine if a video was released of a man walking on the moon ten years before Neil Armstrong and that the scientists of Houston…
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Cisel, leader in IT outsourcing

August 2013. The company, a privileged partner of the watchmaking and jewelry industry, is developing SAP Business All-in-One, a solution that meets the high requirements of this sector. Among the…
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The iconic Bichrono from LaCour has joined Geneva’s watchmaking heritage

{July 2013} The urban designer Pierre Koukjian, also known as an artist and sculptor, sees everything in double. Because none of his clients would purchase his Bichrono model, he created…
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Women fall in love with the Calatrava 7200

Fifty percent of the Patek Philippe novelties presented at Baselworld 2013 were dedicated to women. Increasingly, women are making great strides in the world of mechanical timepieces. Privileging primary values,…
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2013, MCH’s flop. Lausannetec cancelled! The market has (finally) chosen

René Kamm, CEO de MCH et Baselworld, prévoyait “doubler” l’EPHJ avec la lancement à Beaulieu d’un salon concurrent Initially scheduled from May 28 to 31, 2013, the 2nd edition of…
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Diane Kruger: “My relationship with Jaeger LeCoultre is organic”

(September 2012) Yes, the most famous stars are also sensitive targets for Swiss watch beauties. So history and products work for brands, much more than their marketing and PR departments.…
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New alternative in the manufacture of regulators?

{Published on March 6, 2012, before Baselworld} If the leak that has been intercepted by bloghorloger.ch is true, a new serious player, able to immediately manufacture, would enter the world…
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How Geneva buried its world unique watch museum

{Published on 20 December 2011} Genevanities. At a time when a remarkable watchmaking exhibition was transforming the Rath Museum into a showcase of “Gold and Enamel Treasures” until April 29,…

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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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