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  • Lacquer joins watchmaking’s métiers d’art - Editos
    1 March 2010 - 35th issue
    Christophe Roulet

    Marie-Antoinette adored it; artists of the Art Deco school, among them Jean Dunand (1877-1942), specialised in it. Now watchmaking has embraced the ancestral techniques of lacquer.

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  • Watchmakers highlight their heritage at the SIHH - Editos
    2 February 2010 - 34th issue
    Christophe Roulet

    "Play safe" seems to have been the watchword at the recent 20th Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie.After a year fraught with danger, watchmakers are taking no risks in 2010 and building on the creations which, decade after decade, have forged their success. Just a few examples:Piaget commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of its extra-thin Calibre 12P in the Altiplano collection; Girard-Perregaux celebrates 40 years since it innovated with quartz; Panerai’s Mare Nostrum is a tribute to a watch launched in 1943; IWC finds multiple inspiration in its legendary Portuguese, launched in 1939; JeanRichard looks to a 1960s model for its Aquascope; Vacheron Constantin revives extra-thin timepieces from its 1955 and 1968 collections, and Jaeger-LeCoultre reinterprets its legendary Memovox of the 1950s…

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  • The endangered arts - Editos
    22 December 2009 - 33rd issue
    Christophe Roulet

    Picture a CNC machine, that five-axis, modern-day wonder, engraving a watch to dimensions previously determined by a three-dimensional scanning of the desired form.

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  • Luxury cleans up its gold - Editos
    27 November 2009 - 32nd issue
    Christophe Roulet

    The word is out: "No Dirty Gold." Customers, ask your retailer where the gold for the necklace or watch you wish to buy was mined, and in what conditions! Chances are that most of them will try and skirt the issue.

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  • Counterfeiting raises the stakes - Editos
    23 October 2009 - 31st issue
    Christophe Roulet

    A single figure: 25 years ago, the global counterfeit industry was worth around $5 billion; today it generates fifty times more revenues, estimated by Customs at between $250 and $300 billion, the equivalent of 7% to 10% of world trade…

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  • Ecology makes the watchmaking agenda - Editos
    21 September 2009 - 30th issue
    Christophe Roulet

    Environmental issues were, for a long time, conspicuously absent from watchmakers’ industrial agenda. Not any more, with initiatives coming thick and fast, and not just as marketing ploys.

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  • Diving watches in a class of their own - Editos
    14 July 2009 - 29th issue
    Christophe Roulet

    While not wishing to labour the point, diving watches are rarely confronted with the hostile underwater environment for which they are designed.

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  • Showing their age… with pride - Editos
    19 June 2009 - 28th issue
    Christophe Roulet

    In these testing times for the watch industry, what could be more natural than for companies to train the spotlight on the tradition that underlies their success?

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  • From austere beginnings Swiss watchmaking has grown - Editos
    20 May 2009 - 27th issue
    Christophe Roulet

    This year, Geneva celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (1509-1564), the reformer who left an indelible mark on the city, its mentality and its vision of the world.

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  • Back to earth at the watch fairs - Editos
    21 April 2009 - 26th issue
    Christophe Roulet

    We now know where the watch sector stands. Exports fell by around 20% in January and February, confirming the slowdown of recent months.

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