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He arrived home, opened his bag and said, “It’s for you! It’s a detective book with a special dedication that tears at my eyes. “Sur La Trace Des Diamants Perdus<\/a>” is “his<\/em>” book! My son is an author!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s editor in chief<\/em>
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An author with an assumed name, DWG (pronounce in a frenchy way<\/em>), his initials phonetically changed to D\u00e9dou Bleveger, published by \u00c9ditions Baudelaire<\/a> on Paris’s Boulevard Malesherbes, available on every platform and in every bookstore in France, Switzerland and the rest of the world!<\/p>\n

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“Ten years of my life,” he told me<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I had not seen him coming, on the sidelines of his historian’s job and assistant curator of the Audemars Piguet museum<\/a>. The story is about an investigation by Count William de Monfort, and reminds me of his childhood memories when we were traipsing around Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dard’s neighborhood. I shudder at the idea of reading it, of discovering all of the autobiographical depths and, perhaps, all of the things he never told me, never even dared to tell me. I’m so proud, my son, Dave-William Grandjean<\/strong><\/a>, this writer…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The book \"Sur La Trace Des Diamants Perdus\". Behind the author, a fellow by the name of D\u00e9dou Bleveger, is DWG, aka Dave-William Grandjean, assistant curator of the Mus\u00e9e Audemars Piguet (Cover design by Janine Grandjean of Elevate Digital Agency Ltd. www.elevateda.com)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
Order in Switzerland<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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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\/30985","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=30985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}