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Haute-gainerie Vaudaux, useful and playful leather

Baby-foot entièrement recouvert de cuir par la haute-gainerie Vaudaux, à Genève. Walking through the EPHJ hallways, year after year, there is one stand that is worth a visit. It’ s…
MODELS & COLLECTIONSPRESS REL.

“And The Winner is… Maximus!”: world record-holder for Kerbedanz, the world’s largest tourbillon

{Press Release} Few brands are able to overcome the mother complications that are symbols of the quintessential in chronometry skills. Tourbillons, minute repeaters and even integration of functions from automaton…
MODELS & COLLECTIONSPRESS REL.

Two 2019 versions of the Snow Star: the centenary Milus brand pays tribute to a legendary watch

{Press Release 2019} Pure, iconic, eternal as the snow from which it takes its name, the automatic Snow Star embodies the new impulse that Luc Tissot and his team are…
10:10BRANDSBRANDS LIFEMODELS & COLLECTIONS

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,…
10:101stHISTORICAL FEATURESMODELS & COLLECTIONSOPINION

Tavannes Watch is the birth father of the Chronomat

Amazing, this Chronomat model of Tavannes Watch from 1946 is very similar to the Breitling’s Chronomat reference 769. What if the history of the mythical calibers of Swiss watchmaking was…
10:10HISTORICAL FEATURESHISTORYOPINION

Summer and winter hours? 1907, already in JSH!

Once upon a time, the time change! In 2017 we were even talking about a possible last time. The TV journalist Nicolas Rossé had challenged me on this topic, in…
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…
COMMUNICATIONHISTORICAL FEATURESWHO’S

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.…
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…
10:101stHISTORYJSH® PRINTOPINION

EPHJ 2019: Singer 100 years with a book

“Few are aware of the amount of skill and ability that goes on in the silence of the workshops,” explains Jean-Claude Engisch, father of Joris, the current director of Singer…

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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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