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9 watch stories from 2009
2009 started as a difficult year for everyone, but while established watch makers took the hits with dignity, younger brands where betting on their flexibility and agility to adapt to new economic realities. The Chinese ideograms for “crisis” is 危機, where 危 alone means “danger”, while 機 has also the meaning of “opportunity”. I’m looking [...]
Manuel Emch to Head ROMAIN JEROME
The Geneva watch company, Romain Jerome S.A., has announced the appointment of Mr Manuel Emch as its new CEO.
Mr Emch, a Swiss born in 1972, studied design at the Art Center in La Tour de Peilz, before gaining a Master’s degree in business at Lausanne University’s Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC). He began his [...]
JAQUET DROZ l’Heure Céleste
Four Haute Joaillerie models by Jaquet Droz are expected to arrive in stores for Christmas 2009!
Exuberant, sleek, elegant, and ultra-feminine, L’Heure Céleste rises with virtuosity to authentic technical challenges and reaches out to embrace infinity, the ultimate dream of all mankind. A dream that inspired the dial of this exceptional model in its entirety, a [...]
Laying of the foundation stone of the new manufacture Montres Jaquet Droz SA
La Chaux-de-Fonds, 9 September, 2009
Founded in 1738, the Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie Jaquet Droz immediately focused on prestigious models and unique pieces. Throughout its history, innovation has been the very core of the brand’s identity.
On 9 September, 2009, Nicolas G. Hayek, Chairman of the Swatch Group, Nick Hayek, CEO of the Swatch Group, and Manuel [...]
JAQUET DROZ Rouge & Noir
Three exceptional models by Jaquet Droz are expected to arrive in stores in September 2009!
True to its vanguard spirit, Jaquet Droz presents three flagship timepieces from Baselworld 09 – with a Numerus Clausus of 88 – that highlight the absolute black of the Grand Feu enamelled dial, the black matt of the rubber and the [...]
Jaquet Droz Announces the Winner of the Inaugural Jaquet Droz Prize for Design
Jaquet Droz, the elite Swiss watch manufacturer, is pleased to announce Bengt Brümmer, as the winner of the inaugural Jaquet Droz Prize for Design. Jaquet Droz partnered with Parsons The New School for Design, a global leader in art and design education, to select the undergraduate student who best embodies the spirit and ideals of [...]
La Ligne Bleue by JAQUET DROZ
The most recent expression of virtuoso craftsmanship by the Manufacture Jaquet Droz, La Ligne Bleue pushes back the limits of the Grand Feu enamelling technique to obtain a colour of unique depth and luminosity: the Jaquet Droz blue.
A colour of the imagination, reverie and meditation, blue has always inspired Jaquet Droz which, from its origins [...]
JAQUET DROZ Grande Seconde Ceramique at the Museum of Arts and Design
New York, NY (May 6, 2009) – The Museum of Arts and Design unveiled Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics, a groundbreaking exhibition, documenting contemporary innovation in industrial ceramic production and the renaissance of ceramics in art and design today.
On view from Wednesday, May 6 through Sunday, September 13, 2009, Object Factory examines the [...]
The Swatch Group Announces EXPANSION OF TOURBILLON BOUTIQUEs To New York city
Entirely New Watch Retail Concept; Second Tourbillon Boutique to open in the United States
Weehawken, New Jersey (April 26, 2009) – The Swatch Group Ltd, the world’s largest watch company, announced today the expansion of an entirely new retail concept to the United States with the opening of the second Tourbillon Boutique on New York City’s [...]
JAQUET DROZ – La Machine à Ecrire le Temps
Hommage La Chaux-de-Fonds 1738
Building History
The most beautiful creations have the power to endure over Time, retaining their power to astonish and delight century after century. As only creative geniuses can, the Manufacture Jaquet Droz has never stopped striving to surprise, amaze and inspire dreams since its founding. Starting in the late 18th century, the spectacular [...]
