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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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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…
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…
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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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duManège timepieces, the DM-Exploration Silver Edition goes public

Montres duManège, the only Swiss brand of watches to display the name La Chaux-de-Fonds on its dials, is launching a timepiece that is almost architectural in style. The world of…
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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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Historic relief: Tissot’s new caliber

{Released on July 8, 2010, bloghorloger.ch} The new C01-211 calibre, an automatic chronograph exclusively developed for Tissot (and Swatch) in collaboration with ETA, has arrived in Tissot’s high-volume production… By…
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In 2008, Chromalight, the luminescence according to Rolex

{04 November 2028} In addition to the many improved performances of the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller Deepsea, the famous professional deep-sea diving watch relaunched by Rolex, the Chromalight is a…
BRANDS LIFECOMMUNICATIONMODELS & COLLECTIONSNON-SWISS BRANDSW'NEWS

WWF targets India’s wrists

{Published on September 22, 2008, bloghorloger.ch} India is turning to the green: Titan, the Indian manufacturer affiliated to Tata Holding, has just signed an agreement with the WWF to manufacture…
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Pilo & Co Geneva: how it started…

{Published on March 11, 2007} Born the 11.11. of 2001, the brand which is distributed in about forty stores in Switzerland, has infiltrated Lebanon and the Middle East in the…

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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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