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Jaquet Droz Celebrates the Year of the Goat with Two New Ateliers d'Art Models

Jaquet Droz Celebrates the Year of the Goat with Two New Ateliers d’Art Models

The tradition is now established: every Chinese New Year Jaquet Droz observes the change in the zodiac cycle with a model celebrating a rare technique or (...)

GALLERY - MECHANICAL WONDERS

GALLERY - MECHANICAL WONDERS

There are no limits to the imagination of a watchmaker’s technical ambitions, as these timepieces show. Each advances the art of watchmaking in its own (...)

Cinema Paradiso: watches and cinema

Cinema Paradiso: watches and cinema

Time. It’s one of life’s most elusive things. For their entire history, watchmakers have been trying to control and regulate time, while the art of film (...)

Greubel Forsey – Microscopic art

Greubel Forsey – Microscopic art

Willard Wigan is a well-known artist, honoured by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 as a “Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” for his services (...)

Girard-Perregaux – Paying tribute to Le Corbusier

Girard-Perregaux – Paying tribute to Le Corbusier

Before taking over Girard-Perregaux, the late Gino Macaluso studied architecture. Obsessed his entire life by an art that had always inspired him, Macaluso (...)

Hermès – Imaginary time

Hermès – Imaginary time

“The dialogue between contemporary creativity and our artistic craft professions is vital for us. It is a source of invention, new challenges and discovery, (...)

Vacheron Constantin: Creating a dialogue between art and artisanal

Vacheron Constantin: Creating a dialogue between art and artisanal

Born in 1755, well before the era of industrialization, in Geneva, a city well known for the excellence of its precious jewellery artisans, Vacheron (...)

The cultural track – a discussion with Franco Cologni on the relationship between art and watchmaking

The cultural track – a discussion with Franco Cologni on the relationship between art and watchmaking

“Guru of Haute Horlogerie”, “Cardinal of the Richemont Group”—the description of the role(s) played by Franco Cologni in the vast reorganisation of Swiss (...)

Breguet – Cultural patronage: miraculous manna

Breguet – Cultural patronage: miraculous manna

It was a cold wintry day in 2005, in Bienne, a medium-sized, protestant town at the foot of the Swiss Jura mountains. A chilly fog coming off the lake (...)

Is watchmaking an art? A special Art & Watchmaking section

Is watchmaking an art? A special Art & Watchmaking section

Is watchmaking an art? Is it the 12th Art, as was ceremoniously proclaimed during the last Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix?

MB&F – “In watchmaking, there are not enough egoists”

MB&F – “In watchmaking, there are not enough egoists” [Video]

Art or design? Art or artisanal? What differentiates a work of art from a design object? Where is the boundary? To find answers to these questions, we (...)