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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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SAPHIR is a historical episode, not a material

{Published on January 10, 2013} At a time when sapphire has just celebrated its eighty-year introduction in watchmaking, who remembers this holding firm grouping together the companies LeCoultre, Jaeger LeCoultre…
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Pilo & Co Genève, les armoiries du 10ème

[19 February 2011] A coat of arms to celebrate its first decade! Amarildo Pilo has celebrated the tenth anniversary of his brand Pilo & Co Geneva. A journey marked by…
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H. Moser & Cie, a flawless watchmaker: an exhibition by Denis Asch

{Published on July 5, 2010} An invitation to join L’Heure Asch is always welcome. The boutique is to retail watchmaking what Carlo Crisci’s Cerf is to Swiss gastronomy: inventive, consistent,…
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Off-centered watches that follow your gaze

October 28, 2009. Vacheron Constantin is awarded the Watch of the Year prize, conceived more than 15 years ago by the two co-founders of Montres Passion magazine, Kenan Tegin and…

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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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