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September: Neuchâtel hosts the first 2021 watch exhibition

From September 1 to 6, 2021, Carlo Naldi’s Imagination event, initially planned for Lausanne Beaulieu, will transform the Beaulac Hotel and surroundings into a promising vessel for a watchmaking industry…
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How she fell in love with the AstroLUNA by Vicenterra*

There are women who ask you for the moon and pout when you bring them Mars. There are women who never ask you for anything and to whom you would…
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Presque 20 millions pour une Rolex en acier: au-delà du placement!

Les ventes aux enchères horlogères se sont-elles emballées? Pourtant utile à l’image de l’horlogerie mécanique, la course aux records risque d’éclipser l’intérêt du public pour les nouveautés ou le simple…
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Dr. Helmut Crott: Horological auctions owe him their hundreds of millions

Although less well known than Antiquorum founder Osvaldo Patrizzi, expert collector Dr. Helmut Crott is, like Patrizzi, the forerunner of worldwide watch auctions. We owe him the first thematic auction…
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EPHJ, the first physical Watch Exhibition of 2021

Postponed! From September 14 to 17, 2021, the EPHJ exhibition will take place at Palexpo Geneva. More than 800 exhibitors are expecting nearly 20,000 visitors! Hope for the post COVID…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…

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Le cadran, par le Dr. Helmut CROTT

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