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Is The Naked Frederique Constant Perpetual a Hit or Miss?
The Naked Watchmaker just announced its collaboration with Frederique Constant, the Slimline Perpetual Calendar Manufacture. Although I’ve enjoyed recent collaboration models, this one misses the mark...
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How Tiny Fontainemelon Dominated Swiss Watchmaking in the 19th Century
Although it is located in a tiny village of less than 1,000 residents, the factory in Fontainemelon looms large in the history of Swiss watchmaking. The oldest and largest ebauche factory in the...
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The Rise of Vénus, Legendary Chronograph Maker
There are few names in the golden age of watchmaking as revered as Vénus, which produced some of the best chronograph movements of the 1940s. But the history of this small Swiss company is not well...
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Gordon Moore’s $15 Million Watch – The Story of Intel and Microma
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, died on March 24, 2023. Although many touching tributes are currently being published to this titan of the technology industry, most overlook what Moore himself...
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The Balance Spring Cartel Crisis
The pattern of high demand, over-production, and collapse is common in all industries, but especially in the history of Swiss watchmaking. We see it repeated throughout the 20th century, from ebauches...
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Palais Invar, the First Watch Boutique in La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds is sometimes called “Watch City” because it is home to so much watchmaking history. It is said that “Chaux-de-Fonnier” factories produced half of the world’s watches in the first...
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How Charles Vermot Saved the Zénith El Primero – In His Own Words
In an industry as full of folklore and puffery as watchmaking, it is refreshing to uncover first-hand knowledge. As I was researching the history of Zénith, Universal, and the Martel watch factory I...
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A Night of Surprises at the 2023 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie
The annual Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève ceremony took place on Thursday night, and it was a night of surprises. Watching the awards from afar, it sometimes seems that the ceremony celebrates the...
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The Controversial Career of Paul Perret
The story of Paul Perret is quite unusual: He was famous not for one single accomplishment but for three different ones: He revolutionized watch adjustment, registered the very first Swiss patent, and...
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Zodiac Sea Wolf and the Dive Watch Craze
Jose Pereztroika recently published another fascinating article “debunking the fictitious history of the Zodiac Sea Wolf,” in which he shows that this admired dive watch was probably launched in 1957...
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