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2023 Geneva Grand Prix: a crown for independents!

Sven Andersen didn’t make the podium with his rather sober “Jumping Hours Rising Sun Edition” in platinum, but shared the Jury’s special prize with Vincent Calabrese: in 2025, their baby…

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Autour du Temps, the opening of sacred sites

From Thursday, October 12 to Saturday, October 14, 2023, the Plan-Les-Ouates watchmaking ecosystem will open its doors and its trades: tours of prestigious Manufactures, the Geneva School of Watchmaking, discreet…

At the Festival Suisse de l’Horlogerie: Laurent Jolliet, Switzerland’s last chain-maker!

Live from EPHJ’s Exhibition in 2019. Is he a dying species? There is no longer any certified training for his profession, neither in Switzerland nor in France. Portrait of an endearing…

Genevaworld 2023 Watch Passport: Some 180 exhibiting brands!

Suppliers, collectors, distributors and retailers. Here is “GenevaWorld 2023” the independent practical guide to the brands and signatures that will be exhibited in Geneva at the end of March 2023.…

Old fashioned printing, a real future…

Old machines, a gleaming old printing press in perfect state of working order, all sizes of burins, everything in Georges Koularmanis’ workshop in the heart of Plan-les-Ouates, between watchmaking Giants…

Mathey-Tissot brand introduces the San Antonio Signature watch

Watchmaking: tribute to the famous writer Frédéric Dard who would have been 100 years old in 2021. A limited edition Swiss Made watch numbered 1921 pieces, is celebrating the memory…

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…

Günter Blümlein, tribute and memory

Soon in Geneva in January, the SIHH 2013. Which is largely thanks to one man. Flash back. In 1980, two companies had no idea what they would become. IWC 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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