{"id":21915,"date":"2023-01-07T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/xavier-comtesse-contributeur-jsh-et-visionnaire\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:36:29","slug":"xavier-comtesse-jsh-contributor-and-visionary-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/xavier-comtesse-jsh-contributor-and-visionary-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Comtesse, JSH contributor and visionary leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong>He is an honorary contributor to the Swiss watchmaking magazine JSH, in particular with his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/98_MOM-Carte-blanche_Xavier-Comtesse_DEF.pdf\">Carte Blanche<\/a>&#8221; devoted to the exhibition Coco Chanel-Picasso, held in Madrid, as well as an active member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/agefi.com\/articles-contributeurs\/xavier-comtesse\">Agefi editorial team<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsh-journal-suisse-horlogerie.org\">JSH\u00ae Magazine<\/a> &amp; Swiss Watch Passport&#8217;s Editor in Chief &amp; Publisher<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/swisswatchpassport\/\">Insta SWP<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jshmagazine1876\/\">Insta JSH\u00ae<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JSH1876\/\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tagpress\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jsh-archives-patrimoine\/\">Linkedin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/98_MOM-Carte-blanche_Xavier-Comtesse_DEF.pdf\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Read French Article<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"mailto:abo@jsh.swiss\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Subscribe to JSH<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Xavier Comtesse founded three start-ups in Geneva in the 1980s &#8211; a publishing house, a radio station and a IT company &#8211; and became a senior civil servant in Berne for the Secretary of State for Science in 1992, then joined (1995) the Swiss Embassy in Washington as a diplomat. In 2000, he established the first Swissnex in Boston and then joined the think tank &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avenir-suisse.ch\/en\/\">Avenir Suisse<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0In 2014 he launched &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturethinking.ch\">ManufactureThinking<\/a><\/em>&#8221; with several experts, a new think tank on the industrial revolution. 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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. 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