HH Magazine

Michèle Laird

A lively interview with Hervé Chandès, General Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain…

• The Fondation Cartier, 30 years of intimacy with contemporary art
• Seizing today for tomorrow

Alberto Cavalli

The Forum de la Haute Horlogerie, which held its fourth edition in Lausanne on November 14th, is an annual event that succeeds in conquering the scepticism and disinterest of "matter-of-fact" individuals to reach those who still know how to keep business prospering…

• Session I Report - "Volatility is the new stability"
• Session II Report - "Beauty, measure, luxury, repose and pleasure", responsibility too

Quentin Simonet

The brand is finalising its industrial integration on a scale hitherto unseen in the profession…

• Rolex Central
• The heart of the matter

Louis Nardin

Land of excellence, Japan embraces watchmaking in the person of Hajime Asaoka, a self-taught young watchmaker, as well as through research by Swiss historian Pierre-Yves Donzé, and the reopening of the Seiko Museum…

• Hajime Asaoka, the watchmaker from Tokyo
• Japanese quartz didn't kill the Swiss watch industry
• The Seiko Museum in Tokyo

Christophe Roulet

Ever since sport became focused on setting new records, timing athletes' performance has become central to every discipline…

• Omega's 25th Olympics
• Two models for London 2012

Christophe Roulet

Investment funds, an industry in their own right, couldn't fail to spot watches' potential to yield high return…

• Nothing but the best!
• Auction houses under the microscope

Christophe Roulet

The 300th anniversary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which Geneva celebrates this year, is a chance to reflect on history…

• "Timepieces Signed Rousseau"*
• Rousseau, the "self-taught genius"

Christophe Roulet

In the wake of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, Baselworld proved to be a week of measured enthusiasm, boosted by a record year for watchmaking in 2011 but with exports forecast to slow down…

• Striking watches, the nec plus ultra of complications
• What goes around comes around

Christophe Roulet

Swatch Group took on 2,800 people in 2011. Cartier, part of Richemont, has plans to create 2,000 new jobs over two years…

• In favour of a more convincing Swiss Made
• Swatch Group at home in Biel

Christophe Roulet

Despite a high-flying year in 2011, with the world economy still on an unsteady footing, the eighteen brands exhibiting at the 22nd Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie refused to be lured by the siren song of record export levels…

• Bone structure
• The irreplaceable métiers d’art