"Le Garde Temps" project was unveiled at this year's SIHH by Greubel Forsey and goes against many preconceived ideas of the watchmaking industry. Totally parallel to the world of open source found in technology, Philippe Dufour, Stephen Forsey and Robert Greubel have put together a real project of transmission of knowledge in order to perpetuate the know-how.
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Tags: Greubel Forsey, Philippe Dufour, SIHH, SIHH 2012
Results and trends of the May watch auctions held in Geneva at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Antiquorum with an overall sale out of 45 Million Swiss Francs. Christie’s was really the big name with 30 Million in sales and 95% of the lots having found new owners, whereas results were slightly less impressive for the other 2 houses, but listen to what the three auctioneers had to say.
Greubel Forsey has just added a new member to its collection, the GMT Calibre GF05. Listen to Stephen Forsey as he explains us in this video its particularities with a 3D rotating globe and 24 timezone rotating disk on the back case.
Set in the famous sound studio Dynamec, the first Watchmakers’ Ball welcomed many guests from the watchmaking industry.
Stanislas de Quercize, CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels, presents us the latest novelties of the brand at the SIHH 2012. Among them, you will see the extraordinary Poetic Wish, a very original and complex minute repeater, as well as the major relaunch of the Pierre Arpels model.
Dr Helmut Crott, owner of the brand, gives us some hindsight into the brand’s history and its special relation with the world of science. This could only lead the brand in having an unusual but pertinent ambassador, Dr Etienne Klein, a nuclear physicist specialist in time related issues, but on another level!
World class ski champion Didier Cuche partners with Corum to develop the Swiss market.
Cartier presents 16 “pendules mystérieuses” exhibited together for the first time at the 2011 SIHH.