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EPHJ, the first physical Watch Exhibition of 2021

Postponed! From September 14 to 17, 2021, the EPHJ exhibition will take place at Palexpo Geneva. More than 800 exhibitors are expecting nearly 20,000 visitors! Hope for the post COVID…

Code 41, the irritating lessons giver: false gurus are out!

Unashamedly spitting in the soup that has fed you? A former watch designer for brands that have added some prestige to his CV, Claudio d’Amore, founder of Code 41, exists…

“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…

Suppliers: five wrong “good reasons” not to register your trademark!

The talk starts with a thought related to an annual visit to EPHJ, in 2019. There I was surprised at the rarity of exhibitors who have trademarked their company name.…

Memphis Heritage, Tissot dabbles with the design codes of the Eighties

Who remembers the Memphis Group, a post-Bauhaus design movement founded in Milan in 1980 by the late designer Ettore Sottsass?   By Lee Warrien | JSH News Le Groupe Memphis,…

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?…

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…

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.…

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…

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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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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