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"Watches were produced in the past to tell the time," said Christian Selmoni, artistic director of the Geneva watchmaker Vacheron Constantin.
At the Salon Belles Montres in Paris this weekend, the Geneva watchmaker F.P. Journe is presenting its Répétition Souveraine Mécanique, with an ultraflat — at four millimeters — minute repeater.
After several years of research and development, Manufacture d'Horlogerie Quinting, a Geneva watchmaker set up in 1993 expressly for the purpose, in that year introduced a transparent movement, giving the illusion of hands floating in space.
The 258-year-old Geneva watchmaker introduced a bespoke service in 2006 called Ateliers Cabinotiers, after the 18th-century Geneva artisans who perfected their respective crafts, from engraving to diamond-setting to goldsmithing, in cramped attic spaces known as cabinets.
[C7.] Living the Sporting Life Philippe Stern, president and owner, Patek Philippe, the Geneva watchmaker, said his father did not pressure him about joining the company his grandfather acquired in 1932.
Yet at this year's salon, journalists in attendance had a chance to play cinema critic as a short narrative film — just three and a half minutes long — illuminated the screen in a presentation room reserved for the Geneva watchmaker Roger Dubuis.
To qualify, a watchmaker in the canton of Geneva may submit a new movement for inspection to the Geneva watchmaking school, the École d'Horlogerie.
"The Geneva watchmaking schools will never turn out enough watchmakers.
PARIS — This year, the 10th anniversary of the presentation of the first "Chronomètre à Résonance," a unique mechanism by the Geneva-based watchmaker F. P. Journe, coincided with an exceptional horology sale at Sotheby's in Paris.
In 1963 Scheufele bought a small Geneva-based watchmaker from Paul-André Chopard and merged the 2 businesses.
"The Geneva Seal has nothing to do with high-quality artisanal finishing," Mr. Dufour, the independent watchmaker, said.
