{"id":10331,"date":"2012-11-27T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swisswatch\/gunter-blumlein-hommage-et-souvenir\/"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T19:16:07","slug":"gunter-blumlein-tribute-and-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/gunter-blumlein-tribute-and-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00fcnter Bl\u00fcmlein, tribute and memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Soon in Geneva in January, the SIHH 2013. Which is largely thanks to one man. Flash back. In 1980, two companies had no idea what they would become. IWC and Jaeger LeCoultre. Their owners invited G\u00fcnter Bl\u00fcmlein (Ga\u00efa Prize 1996) to their bedside, first as a consultant and then, from 1982, as director. Under his leadership, IWC quickly regained its foothold with a series of wristwatches with innovative designs in keeping with the tradition of the Schaffhausen factory. Very quickly, the new director saw the return of mechanical watchmaking and the increasing value of complications. The launch of the Da Vinci model in 1985, the first automatic wristwatch with a perpetual calendar at an affordable price, was a visionary move. The renaissance of the Pilot collection did the rest. In addition to his involvement in Schaffhausen, in 1996 G\u00fcnter Bl\u00fcmlein took over the leadership of Jaeger-LeCoultre, which he also revitalized. Three&#8217;s a crowd. After the Berlin Wall had fallen, G\u00fcnter Bl\u00fcmlein orchestrated the revival of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alange-soehne.com\/\">A. Lange &amp; S\u00f6hne<\/a>. Finally, in 1996, he succeeded in creating a powerful holding company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneyhouse.ch\/fr\/u\/lmh_les_manufactures_horlogeres_sa_CH-290.3.003.085-9.htm\">LMH Les Manufactures Horlog\u00e8res<\/a>. The amount of several billion paid by Richemont to acquire the three manufactures, testifies to the added value brought by G\u00fcnter Bl\u00fcmlein. He will be in charge of coordinating the high-end activities of the watch segment within the acquiring group: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwc.com\/\">IWC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaeger-lecoultre.com\/\">Jaeger-LeCoultre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alange-soehne.com\/\">Lange<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baume-et-mercier.com\/\">Baume &amp; Mercier<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panerai.com\/\">Officine Panerai<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piaget.ch\/%20\">Piaget<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vacheron-constantin.com\/\">Vacheron Constantin<\/a>. Unfortunately, at the first light of October 2001, on the 1st of the month, he died at the age of 58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon in Geneva in January, the SIHH 2013. Which is largely thanks to one man. Flash back. 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Founded in 2005, his press agency 1876 News (formerly T\u00e0G Press +41T) contributes to some twenty media through a network of around ten journalists or experts. These include Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie (2008-2014), Heure Suisse\/Schweiz and Ann\u00e9e Horlog\u00e8re, F\/D\/E (2011-2014), Watchonista.com (2013-2019). In 2019, he founded and chaired \"JSH Archives &amp; Patrimoine\" to relaunch the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH. Then in 2021, he built on his very first editorial venture, the \"bloghorloger.ch\" established on the web in 2003, to come back online with the Swiss Watch Passport\u00ae (by JSH\u00ae). Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean is a member of the SSC, the Swiss Society of Chronometry, and of the jury of the Prix Ga\u00efa, aka the \"Nobel of watchmaking\" awarded since 1992 by the MIH, Le Mus\u00e9e International de l'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds","sameAs":["https:\/\/grandjean.watch","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joel.grandjean","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/grandjean.grammson\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joel-a-grandjean-\u270d-5524357\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/tagpress","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@joela.grandjeanprowatchpre906"],"url":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/author\/joel\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}