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An essential behind-the-scenes figure in Swiss watchmaking, Boris Petitpierre passed away suddenly and much too soon. Read the <\/b>micro portrait<\/b><\/a> that the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie <\/b>JSH<\/b><\/a> dedicated to him, between Bono and Elton John.<\/b><\/p>\n

Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch\u2019s editor in chief<\/em>
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Between Elton John and Bono, Boris Petitpierre and his set of watchmaking tools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

{<\/strong>Released on November 1, 2022<\/strong>} As head of his eponymous company, which has been added like a manufacturing gem to the industrial necklace of Acrotec Group, Boris Petitpierre in Cortaillod (NE) is still not believing it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Albert-J. de Buttes-LaC\u00f4te \/ 1876 News Agency (suc. T\u00e0G Press +41)<\/em>
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\"Boris laisse derri\u00e8re lui une \u00e9pouse aimante, Christine, et trois enfants, Jules, Arthur et Lili, \u00e0 qui nous pensons tr\u00e8s fort, ainsi qu\u2019une communaut\u00e9 professionnelle profond\u00e9ment marqu\u00e9e par sa disparition. Son absence cr\u00e9e un vide immense\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

When his lot No. 15, an ultra-luxury box containing a complete set of watchmaking tools \u2013 the historic know-how of his company \u2013 was confronted with the red piano on which Elton John has just stood up and played, he thought he was living a wide-eyed dream. He was right there, in the heart of the world\u2019s jet set, surrounded by stars including Bono, the charismatic leader of the <\/span>band U2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is true that this case, which comes from watchmaking regions that have to remain in the shadows and discreetly as often demanded by the famous brands, had already been ordered in a leatherless version by the Dalai Lama himself, or in other equally customisable versions by international figures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Watchmaking makes everything possible, even the red of the most starry carpets<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Par quel miracle, les VIPs du monde ont-ils entendu parler de ce coffret \"Passion\" personnalisable, fabriqu\u00e9 par Petitpierre \u00e0 Cortaillod? Qui existe aussi en version plus condens\u00e9e, le coffret \"Tradition\".<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An essential behind-the-scenes figure in Swiss watchmaking, Boris Petitpierre passed away suddenly and much too soon. Read the micro portrait that the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH dedicated to him, between Bono and Elton John. Jo\u00ebl A. 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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\/36485","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=36485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}