Xavier Comtesse, JSH contributor and visionary leader

7 Jan, 16:24

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He is an honorary contributor to the Swiss watchmaking magazine JSH, in particular with his “Carte Blanche” devoted to the exhibition Coco Chanel-Picasso, held in Madrid, as well as an active member of the Agefi editorial team.

Joël A. Grandjean / JSH® Magazine & Swiss Watch Passport’s Editor in Chief & Publisher
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Xavier Comtesse founded three start-ups in Geneva in the 1980s – a publishing house, a radio station and a IT company – 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 “Avenir Suisse.” In 2014 he launched “ManufactureThinking” with several experts, a new think tank on the industrial revolution. He is a mathematician and a doctor of computer science.

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✍ Joel A. Grandjean

Chief editor & publisher of the online watch magazine "Swiss Watch Passport® (by JSH®)" and of the Swiss watch journal JSH® (founded in 1876). Member of Impressum, PressTourim and Club Suisse de la Presse, this Ivory Coast-born Swiss, descendant of a family of watchmakers, co-founded the magazines Montres Passion & Uhren Welt at Ringier in 1993 with Kenan Tegin, as well as the Prix Montre de l'Année. Founded in 2005, his press agency TàG Press +41 contributes to some twenty media. These include Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie (2008-2014), Heure Suisse/Schweiz and Année Horlogère, F/D/E (2011-2014), Watchonista.com (2013-2019). In 2019, he founded and chaired "JSH Archives & Patrimoine" to relaunch the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH. Then in 2021, he built on his very first editorial venture, the "bloghorloger.ch" founded in 2003, to come back online with the Swiss Watch Passport® (by JSH®). Joël A. Grandjean is a member of the SSC, the Swiss Society of Chronometry, and of the jury of the Prix Gaïa, aka the "Nobel of watchmaking" awarded since 1992 by the MIH, Le Musée International de l'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

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