{"id":25737,"date":"2023-08-03T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/philippe-perret-du-cray-alias-ppdc\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T21:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:52:59","slug":"philippe-perret-du-cray-aka-ppdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/philippe-perret-du-cray-aka-ppdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippe Perret du Cray, aka PPDC"},"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>Better known by his diminutive nickname PPDC, Philippe Perret du Cray, General Secretary of the JSH, Archives &amp; Patrimoine association, fell into the watchmaking pot even before the 3rd millennium: watchmaking passion, in all its forms. Pillar of the relaunch of the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean \/ Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsh-journal-suisse-horlogerie.org\/\">JSH\u00ae Magazine<\/a>\u00a0&amp; Swiss Watch Passport<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/swisswatchpassport\/\">Insta SWP<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jshmagazine1876\/\">Insta JSH\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JSH1876\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tagpress\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<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-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>PPDC advocates performance that he helps to boost, opportunities to seize and commercial coups de coeur. With conviction and determination, he brings his invaluable skills to JSH\u00ae Magazine, in his capacity as General Secretary of the JSH Archives and Heritage Association. He is notably the inventor of the Hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/jamaissansmonjsh\/\"><em>#JamaissansmonJSH<\/em><\/a> which brings together portraits of watchmaking personalities surprised while reading JSH.<\/p>\n<p>A key figure in the development of the watchmaking magazines &#8220;Heure International&#8221;, then &#8220;Heure Suisse&#8221; and &#8220;Heure Schweiz&#8221;, he was already championing the &#8220;Heure Technique&#8221; supplement, designed to showcase co-contractors exhibiting at the EPHJ watch show. He then helped launch a French-language version of Revolution magazine and, for over 12 years, contributed to the commercial development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.worldtempus.com\/\">WorldTempus.com<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>This indefatigable watchmaking enthusiast has an uncommonly high level of sympathy with communication and marketing managers and advertising investment decision-makers. But also with industry decision-makers, since in spring 2023 he took over the sales and marketing management of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.badeco.com\/\">\u00a0Badeco<\/a>, the famous Geneva-based manufacturer of tools for watchmaking and jewelry.<\/p>\n<p><em>But if you ask him what he&#8217;s most proud of in all this, he&#8217;ll answer without hesitation &#8220;being <a href=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/careers-the-rising-stars-amandine-the-post-z-generation-is-coming\/\">Amandine&#8217;s dad<\/a><\/em>&#8221; aka &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/watch_it_with_amandine\/\"><em>watch_it_with_amandine<\/em><\/a>&#8221; on Instagram.<\/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\" title=\"profil LinkedIn Philippe &quot;PPDC&quot; Perret du Cray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philippe-perret-du-cray-051b5025\/?locale=en_US\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">PPDC on LinkedIn<\/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\" title=\"vers les articles de PPDC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/author\/ppdc\/\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Signed by PPDC<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Better known by his diminutive nickname PPDC, Philippe Perret du Cray, General Secretary of the JSH, Archives &amp; Patrimoine association, fell into the watchmaking pot even before the 3rd millennium: watchmaking passion, in all its forms. 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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\/25737","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=25737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}