{"id":10143,"date":"2020-05-20T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swisswatch\/eric-othenin-girard-rip\/"},"modified":"2021-04-10T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T12:19:22","slug":"eric-othenin-girard-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/eric-othenin-girard-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Othenin-Girard, RIP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{2020, May 20}\u00a0<strong>And now you have left to join Nicolas Hayek Senior, to whom you had the attention and the friendship&#8230;! May you rest in peace, dear colleague and companion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean, Editor-in-Chief JSH Magazine &amp; Swiss Watch Passport<br \/>\nSubscribe to JSH\u00a0<\/em><i>Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a great pleasure to have you on board with me when I was Editor in Chief of Watchonista. Rest in peace. So, I&#8217;m updating and posting the few lines I wrote about you, so that the younger ones can learn what a great person you were.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/eric-othenin-girard-rip\/swiss-watch-passport-eric-othenin-girard-nb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10137 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Swiss-Watch-Passport-Eric-Othenin-Girard-NB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Swiss-Watch-Passport-Eric-Othenin-Girard-NB.jpeg 738w, https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Swiss-Watch-Passport-Eric-Othenin-Girard-NB-300x293.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Swiss-Watch-Passport-Eric-Othenin-Girard-NB-600x585.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nBorn in the mountains of Neuch\u00e2tel, one of the cradles of world watchmaking, his voice is definitely part of the national collective subconscious: Eric Othenin-Girard will be editor-in-chief for the French-speaking Swiss radio station after having worked as a reporter in South-East Asia, Vietnam and the Middle East. 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