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2022 Gaïa Prize is awarded to…
Laurent Barotte, Nico de Rooij and Edouard Meylan are the 2022 laureates of the award considered to be the “Nobel of watchmaking”. Respectively in the categories “Craftsmanship and Creation”, “History…
The Horopedia Foundation chaired by Philippe Dufour
JSH Magazine has announced it in its EPHJ 2022 issue: The Horopedia Foundation is launching a watchmaking “wikipedia” in Geneva on 30 March 2022. In the presence of Philippe Dufour…
Watch Passport GenevaWorld, exhibiting brands guide
Please note: retailers, distributors, suppliers and collectors. The “Geneva Watch Days” 2022 will run from Monday 29th August to Thursday 1st September! Swiss-Watch-Passport, the online and international offshoot of the…
Jubilee Witschi, the institution with a future
Viewed at EPHJ 2022. In 1947, Paul Witschi was developing the world’s best measuring instruments for watches. 75 years later, the company has never been more synonymous with innovative reliability.…
Figaro newspaper article: watchmaking, a world day?
The concept of a “World Watchmaking Day” is in the headlines thanks to a brand new article in Le Figaro. It reminds me of this topic posted on October 10,…
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…
Time Matters: Jean-Marie Schaller, senior entrepreneur
Its “Space Revolution” was featured on the JSH Magazine front page with its grand complication and double-tourbillon caliber manufactured by Concepto. A galaxy of co-contractors in orbit is inside this…
Moonswatch, Nick Hayek’s true master stroke revealed
With the recently launched Moonswatch operation, Nick Hayek has achieved a “double strike” success while being the first in the watchmaking industry to provide a solution to ” recover ”…
Nathalie: her talent of anglage and her watchmakers’ magnifying glasses
In 2014, JSH, the Swiss Watchmaking Journal, devoted a two-page tribute to her mastery of hand anglage. Today, in addition to her art craft, which requires infinite patience and good…
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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