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History & Masterpieces
Magnificent métiers d’art at Vacheron Constantin

In Paris, Vacheron Constantin presented the most recent additions to its Métiers d’Art collection. They are the latest illustration of the collaboration, since 2019, between the Geneva-based Manufacture and the Musée du Louvre. This quartet of limited series looks to emblematic works by ancient civilisations and is a reminder of the extraordinary heights achieved in the artistic realm of watchmaking.

Monday, 20 June 2022
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Photo 5 - De Bethune DB Kind of Two Tourbillon
Culture
Independents Day

A whirlwind weekend in Geneva of auction sales, Only Watch and the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève has confirmed the rise and rise of independent watchmakers.

Thursday, 18 November 2021
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Early twentieth-century blanks-making workshop © ETA
History & Masterpieces
ETA, a symbol of Swiss watchmaking history

ETA, Switzerland's largest manufacturer of watch movements, grew slowly out of a succession of takeovers and mergers, although its roots go back to the eighteenth century and the founding of Fabrique d'Horlogerie de Fontainemelon in 1793: Swiss watchmaking's industrial past rolled into one company.

Thursday, 22 July 2010
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History & Masterpieces
Treasures from the past

While numerous contemporary watchmakers are leaving their mark, and their name, on horological production, others from the past are proving to have no less of an appeal, even after decades of oblivion when communication plans step in to remind us of the position these firms once occupied, and the heritage they represent.

Monday, 19 July 2010
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Seizure of counterfeit watches in Latin America © FH
Culture
The Swiss Watch Federation tracks counterfeiters in the field

Michel Arnoux, head of the anti-counterfeiting division at the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, talked about the Federation's experience in the field to an audience at the Salon Environnement Professionnel Horlogerie Joaillerie in June.

Sunday, 18 July 2010
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Culture
ECAL joins the fight against fakes

The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) and the University of Art and Design in Lausanne (ECAL) have joined forces in a project to produce short films on the theme of counterfeiting. This partnership is part of a wider awareness campaign in which the general public and Swiss film-makers also play a part.

Friday, 02 July 2010
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History & Masterpieces
Swatch, forever young

Centuries after scholars of the Middle Ages came a cropper on the philosopher's stone, Nicolas Hayek achieved the unthinkable and turned plastic into gold.

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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Dix écoles d’horlogerie suisses, chefs-d'œuvre de savoir-faire, by Estelle Fallet and Antoine Simonin, published by Editions Antoine Simonin, 2010, 568 pages © Editions Antoine Simonin
History & Masterpieces
Ten schools of watchmaking under the loupe

After the exhibition at the Musées d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva, held in 2008 and 2009, a new book traces the history of the Swiss watchmaking schools, and a century of innovation and evolution, through students' end-of-study pieces.

Thursday, 17 June 2010
3 min read
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Regulating organs

All about the incredible invention of escapement

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