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Girard-Perregaux partners with the Neuchâtel Ethnography Museum for the Imagine Japan exhibition

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February 2014


Swiss watch Manufacture Girard-Perregaux had the pleasure of announcing its partnership with the Neuchâtel Ethnography Museum (Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel – MEN) for the Imagine Japan exhibition, which will open its doors on June 19th.
The introductory part of this exhibition organized by the MEN was unveiled on the historically significant date of February 6, 2014, the official 150-year commemoration of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Switzerland and Japan.

MEN exhibition opening performance (in partnership with Girard-Perregaux)
MEN exhibition opening performance (in partnership with Girard-Perregaux)

Pocket watches that were imported to Japan by François Perregaux, the central character responsible for forging the first steps of Swiss watchmaking in the Land of the Rising Sun in the middle of the 19th century, were displayed during the exhibition.

Properties of the Girard-Perregaux Museum, these timepieces are a priceless testament of the links that have bonded together the Chaux-de-Fonds Maison and the Japanese archipelago for more than one and a half centuries. Numerous officials and dignitaries, including Georges Martin, Deputy Secretary of State to the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and M. Yukihiro Nikaido, Ministre and Chargé d’affaires a.i, attended the commemorative ceremony.

A Girard-Perregaux pocket watch from 1875 - A Property of the Girard-Perregaux Museum
A Girard-Perregaux pocket watch from 1875 - A Property of the Girard-Perregaux Museum

As part of the 150th anniversary celebration, Girard-Perregaux is also presenting other watches in Tokyo that experienced the same fate, in The Mastery of Time exhibit, organized by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH), of which the brand is a partner.

Source: Girard-Perregaux