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Kickstarter: “Elka”, a creative mind that can do anything

His 23-year creative career working for a watchmaking group is peppered with leading models, innovative collab’s and, above all, a sample of some of the most audacious “talking pieces”. Suddenly,…

The Luc Tissot visionary, watchmaking-Medtech wisdom

Better than anyone else, the descendant of the Tissot brand dynasty embodies the ideal economic scenario: being able to use a second growth sector during a crisis, in order to…

Memphis Heritage, Tissot dabbles with the design codes of the Eighties

Who remembers the Memphis Group, a post-Bauhaus design movement founded in Milan in 1980 by the late designer Ettore Sottsass?   By Lee Warrien | JSH News Le Groupe Memphis,…

Eric Othenin-Girard, RIP!

{2020, May 20} And now you have left to join Nicolas Hayek Senior, to whom you had the attention and the friendship…! May you rest in peace, dear colleague and companion.…

New alternative in the manufacture of regulators?

{Published on March 6, 2012, before Baselworld} If the leak that has been intercepted by bloghorloger.ch is true, a new serious player, able to immediately manufacture, would enter the world…

2008, Gulf States: Rivoli Group becomes part of the Swatch Group

In July 2008, the Swatch Group has acquired a strategic investment in Rivoli Group, one of the leading distributors of luxury goods in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region. This…

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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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