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  • All eyes on China
    22 July 2008 - 18th issue

    Christophe Roulet - This summer, China will be the centre of the world, or of the sporting world at least. With the Beijing Olympic Games set to open at 8 minutes past 8 on August 8th 2008 (for those it may have escaped, eight is a lucky number, believed to bring prosperity in Chinese culture).

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  • Precision, the insatiable requirement
    20 juin 2008 - 17th issue

    Christophe Roulet - For certain watchmakers, a watch that displays a regular loss or gain of, say, four seconds each day is an excellent timekeeper with extreme precision. For others, this is simply not the case. From this simple observation, one can distinguish two watchmaking schools in their approach to this endless quest for precision.

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  • The history behind beauty
    20 May 2008 - 16th Issue

    Christophe Roulet - Vintage watches have cast off the old-fashioned, outmoded, dusty image that still dogged them just a few short years ago. Look at the countless firms that continually delve into their catalogue in search of the prestigious models that helped build their glorious past.

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  • All gain and no pain?
    15 April 2008 - 15th Issue

    Christophe Roulet - At just a few days’ interval, the two key events in the watchmaking year, namely Baselworld and the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), ended very much on a positive note.

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  • Swiss watchmaking tries on its new industrial clothes
    19 March 2008 - 14th Issue

    Christophe Roulet - Early last year, investments were reported to be around the half a billion Swiss franc mark. And today? For some time now, Swiss watch firms have gone from microtechnical constructions to pharaonic structures.

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  • Yesterday’s names make for today’s successes
    21 février 2008 - 13th Issue

    Christophe Roulet - Investors, usually from the profession, are pumping millions into reviving these brands, intent on benefiting from the current infatuation with prestige mechanical watches.

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  • A watch making exclusive
    22 January 2008 - 12th Issue

    HH Journal - Five million Euros, which is the sales price of the planetary-tellurium made under the leadership of Richard Mille to be sold this summer. A prohibitive price? Certainly not, in view of the ten or so years needed to design it.

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  • When luxury is no longer enough
    22 January 2008 - 12th Issue

    Christophe Roulet - Watch making of course makes no exception to these new hunting grounds of the most well-off class on the planet, a watch making that has understand that it’s in its interest to offer timepieces edited in extremely limited series.

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  • Watchmaking and employment, the hiring headache
    20 December 2007 - 11th Issue

    Christophe Roulet - There’s probably no worse a situation than being a victim of your own success. As far as watchmaking is concerned, this evolution is reflected mainly in employment. And for good reason, since 2004 sales of Swiss watches and movements have been a big hit on foreign markets.

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  • The watch making industrial fabric, the object of everyone’s desire
    19 December 2007 - 11th Issue

    HH Journal - When Chinese investors took over STM Holding a few weeks ago, a group sold off by Léman Capital that specialises in producing quartz movements and recently mechanical ones, a number of people rebelled against this foreign incursion on Swiss soil.

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