Horlogerie

“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.…

The+, the movement maker that has reinvented the in-house caliber

Any watch brand that doesn’t already have one dreams of owning its in-house caliber. In the world of independence and in the eyes of customers, this plus increases the brand’s…

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…

“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…

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…

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,…

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…

Tavannes Watch is the biological father of the Chronomat

Astonishing! This Tavannes Watch model from 1946, called Chronomat, looks very similar to the Breitling Chronomat reference 769. So suppose the history of legendary Swiss watchmaking calibers was revised a…

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?…

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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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