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Jury Member Diane Kruger wears Jaeger-LeCoultre at the Cannes Film Festival
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May
2012
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The talented actress and Jaeger-LeCoultre feminine face looked stunning at the opening of the Festival. She choose a beautiful 101 Joaillerie at the day press conference and a unique vintage Jaeger-LeCoultre ‘couvercle’ watch at the opening night ceremony.
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Breguet Acquires Two Antique Watches for a Record Price
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May
2012
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The Breguet Museum and its President, Marc A. Hayek, have acquired two exceptional Breguet watches that made their mark on Fine Watchmaking history, for a record price of nearly 7 million Swiss francs.
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A New Campaign for Saint Honoré
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May
2012
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The new campaign is all about style and dreams. It is dedicated to women and to Paris, two major themes of the Saint Honoré brand.
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News from the spring watch auctions in Geneva
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May
2012
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In a week in which Europe’s stock markets wobbled at the prospect of Greece exiting the Euro zone, results at the spring watch sales in Geneva of two of the major auction houses showed that collectors still have plenty of cash to splash out for the right kind of models.
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Jean-Claude Biver – passing on the knowledge at Hublot
In our survey of various retailers from around the world in this issue, several include Hublot in their “must-see” brands at BaselWorld.
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Bovet – a rising star in fine watchmaking
The development of the watchmaking industry in the small village of Fleurier is in no small part due to the work of Edouard Bovet and his brothers, who from 1822 practically monopolised imports of watches into China as trade with the country improved.
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Eva Leube brings high horology to Australia
Eva Leube can claim to be Australia’s first bespoke watchmaker but she certainly enjoys a special honour as she appears to be the first to have arrived of her own free will.
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Epos – a family affair
Tamdi Chonge, together with his wife Ursula, took over the Epos watch factory in 2002 from Peter Hofer, who had originally established the brand in 1983.
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Keeping time the Chinese way
For many Swiss watch companies, China has been the strongest market. It seems strange that the Chinese have embraced fine Swiss watches, while relatively ignoring the home-grown Chinese watch manufacturers.
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Alpina – Retelling the pilot story
Alpina made quite a splash with its well-designed and extraordinarily-priced pilot’s collection introduced last year. A unique mixture of a vintage feel in a contemporary watch, the collection has been very successful for the brand, which is beginning to come out of the shadow of its bigger brother, Frédérique Constant.
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Bremont – taking on the world
At this year’s BaselWorld, the English boys, brothers Nick and Giles, introduced the ALT1-WT world timer watch. The time-piece was so well received by the C-17 Boeing Globemaster crews around the world, for which it was originally developed, that Bremont decided to make it in a civilian version.
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Hanhart – 130 Years of real history
This year, Hanhart is celebrating 130 years of quality watchmaking, something that not many companies can claim. It all started back on 1 July 1882, when an announcement from watchmaker Johann A. Hanhart appeared in the Anzeiger am Rhein newspaper “respectfully informing the worthy residents of Diessenhofen and surroundings” that he had purchased a business and its premises there with the intention of opening a watch shop.
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