MIH

10:101stEVENTS & PEOPLEFAMOUS WATCHMAKERSGaïa Awards

The prestigious Gaïa Award 2025 goes to Helmut Crott

“History, Research” category. Unique en son genre, le Prix Gaïa, surnommé le “Nobel de l’horlogerie“, The unique Prix Gaïa aka the “Nobel Prize of watchmaking, honours the very best: those…
10:101stEVENTS & PEOPLEGaïa AwardsJSH® PRINTW'NEWS

The 2025 Gaïa Awards, aka “Watchmaking’s Nobel Prizes” are given to…

Award ceremony on September 18, at the MIH in La Chaux-de-Fonds: the Gaïa Prize jury nominates Roger W. Smith, Helmut Crott, and Jean-Jacques Paolini in the categories “Craftsmanship, Creation,” “History,…
10:10EVENTS & PEOPLEGaïa AwardsPRESS REL.W'NEWS

Gaïa Prize: the MIH Museum unveils two meaningful timepieces

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its building, the International Watchmaking Museum is unveiling two new creations: the MIH Gaïa Series III watch and a special 50th anniversary edition featuring…
10:10EVENTS & PEOPLEGaïa AwardsWHO’S

Gaïa Prize, the 2024 ‘Nobels of watchmaking

The 2024 Gaïa Prize jury has delivered its verdict. Three new winners complete the impressive list of recipients of this prize often described as the Nobel Prize of the watchmaking…
10:101stJSH® PRINTMATERIALSWHO’S

Mineral glass, the last wizard

His craft is under threat, and the material he works with is becoming more and more elusive. Christian Calas is looking forward to retirement, and would like to pass on…
1stHISTORICAL FEATURESJSH® PRINTOPINIONWHO’S

Rossella Baldi, dossier: “Everywhere, archives treasures…”

In the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH Magazine  she wrote an authoritative and enlightening article on archives and databases. An in-depth piece, which highlights both the academic approach to archives and…
10:101stEVENTS & PEOPLEGaïa AwardsW'NEWS

Gaïa 2021: the Prize of the Prizes, Carole’s tears…

An unprecedented conjunction of coincidences brought a unique breath of bliss to the 2021 ceremony. Like an improbable planets alignment above the venerable MIH’s Hans Erni Hall, there were tinglings…
10:10EVENTS & PEOPLEFAMOUS WATCHMAKERS

Gaïa 2021, the supreme honor of watchmaking

The winners are Carole Kasapi (Craftsmanship Creation), Eric Klein (Entrepreneurship) and Anthony Turner (History Research). Registration for the award ceremony is open, on Thursday, September 16 at 6:30 pm at…
FAMOUS WATCHMAKERSGaïa AwardsMOVEMENTWHO’S

The Gaïa Jury 2007 awards AHCI watchmaker Paul Gerber

Alongside the journalist Timm Delf, the following personalities were on the panel: Paul-André Harmann, director of the Cifom Technical School (Le Locle), Marc Pfister, director of the Cifom Art School…
10:10EVENTS & PEOPLEGaïa AwardsHISTORICAL FEATURESHISTORYWHO’S

Maurice Ditisheim, the Gaïa Award honours him

{Published on 27 May 2009} A great patron of the arts, Maurice Ditisheim (1901-1992) was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ‘Bureau de Contrôle des Ouvrages en Métaux…

Recents posts

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

Top categories

JSH