Taking a watch apart and putting it back together – in a tick
The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie promotes the culture of fine watchmaking worldwide. In Geneva it offers workshops where people can become amateur watchmakers for a few hours. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)
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The event, which opens on Thursday, is a chance for companies to show off their latest watches, which are both classic and innovative – with some even including a dinosaur bone – and in general shying away from “bling-bling”. Set in the heart of Basel, the eight-day fair – considered by the industry as the…
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“It has pretty much all the complications that you can imagine for a mechanical watch,” says Jean-Michael Piguet, deputy curator of the International Watchmaking Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a Swiss town near the French border. The Calibre 89 was designed to celebrate the watchmaker’s 150th anniversary in 1989. It is an example of Swiss watchmaking…
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