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Longines
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Patek Philippe
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Perrelet
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Louis-Frédéric Perrelet - Inventor of the split second chronograph
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Piaget
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Piaget celebrates its 130th anniversary (in French only)
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Olivier Bernheim: President and CEO of RAYMOND WEIL
Elie & Pierre Bernheim: RAYMOND WEIL’s 3rd generation
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Rebellion
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Reuge
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Richard Mille: "The Formula 1 of watch making" (in French only)
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Persepolis Automatic Limited Edition
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Roger Dubuis
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Novelties 2009
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Rolex
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RSW
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Rudis Sylva
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Romain Gillet
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TAG Heuer
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Lewis Hamilton
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TAG Heuer - Swiss avant-garde since 1860
Editorial: Cäsar Menz & Osvaldo Patrizzi
Watchmaking innovations linked to sport
Avant-garde watchmaking know-how
The reference in design
Sport as a source of TAG Heuer inspiration
An exclusive interview with Tiger Woods
The TAG Heuer advertising saga
"What is TAG Heuer made of?"
New TAG Heuer models 2003-2004
Virtual Museum
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TechnoMarine
Official website
Christian Viros
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« WALKING ON THE MOOD » 2008 Women Ad Campaign
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Tudor
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"Be Anything but Obvious"
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Universal Genève
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Vincent Lapaire - CEO Universal Genève
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2007: Universal Genève confirms its renewal
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Urwerk
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Felix Baumgartner
Novelties 2008
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Vacheron Constantin
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Des siècles d'exigence (in French only)
Mémoire d'une marque: Destin de Vacheron Constantin (in French only)
Juan-Carlos Torres (in French only)
Vacheron Constantin: : 250th anniversary (in French only)
Du siècle des lumières au troisième millénaire, un parcours qui se confond avec l'histoire de l'Horlogerie (in French only)
Un quart de millénaire d'exigence et d'excellence (in French only)
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L'Esprit des Cabinotiers, synthèse magique, mystérieuse et poétique de 250 années de savoir-faire (in French only)
Les douzes critères essentiels du Poinçon de Genève (in French only)
La montre Jubilé 1755, emblématique des valeurs centrales de la marque (in French only)
La montre Métiers d'Art, expression de la relation passionnée qu'entretient depuis toujours Vacheron Constantin avec les arts décoratifs (in French only)
Saint-Gervais repousse les limites existantes de la Réserve de Marche (in French only)
Tour de l'Île, la montre-bracelet la plus compliquée au monde, tout simplement (in French only)
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Herbert Gautschi
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Vulcain
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Watchscouth
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Westime
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The watchmaking factory, a cultural exception
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Chopard: 3,000 movements made by the firm each year
De Witt watches: ultra-complicated works of art
Piaget achieves a symbiosis between the Jura and Geneva
Carlos Dias plays the independence card
30 skills go into the making of a Franck Muller watch
Reuge: a mine of extremely rare skills
Stern Créations supplies dials to the biggest watchmakers
Lange & Söhne opens wide its workshops
TAG Heuer or technology at the extreme
Workmanship: the watchword at Vacheron Constantin
Time in art, literature, poetry and philosophy
Time and music
Establishing an order between humans and time
From the performer's age to his speed of execution
Time and the fine arts
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From the Revolution to the present day
The history of watch making
First watch makers
Giovanni de' Dondi 1318-1389
The astronomical clock of the Primatiale de Lyon
"Zytglogge" in Bern and Solothurn
The sun resets the clocks
The Vancouver steam clock
History of the outlines
How the blank arose from the noble watch
The blantiers spread outside Geneva
History of enamel watches
Enamelling and watchmaking
Old enamels of Geneva
Enamel "champlevé" and "cloisonné"
Translucid enamel
Paint on enamel
Types of enamel rarely applied to watchmaking
Wonders of enamel
The history of erotic watches
Background
Eros the Timemaster seduces time in celebration of life
Erotic watches
History of steel watches
The Swatch phenomenon
The extraordinary Swatch adventure
The people
The Swatch philosophy
Movements
Movements with complications
Introduction
Tourbillon
Ultra-complicated watches
Other complications
Electronic movements
Electric circuits
Electronic circuits
New definition of the second
Transistors and integrated circuits
The transmission of time
The first time signals
Shortwave time service
And longwave service
Determining the position of vessels
Watches and movements
Birth of the silicon transistor
The Accutron
The quartz watch
Progress in energy consumption
First the Japanese, then the Swiss
Digital display
High energy consumption
Chronology of events in the electrical, electronic and atomic clock & watch industry
Watch making around the world
Global watch production
Swiss horology
Neuchâtel horology
The watch valley
Geneva horology
Exhibition: History of the Swiss Watch Industry
Zeitglockenturm
The tower clock was the city's main clock and therefore had an authoritative function in Bern
German horology
Glashütte rediscovers the path to dials
Pforzheim
Austrian horology
Italian horology
Night, astronomical and alarm clocks
Italy, a long clock-making tradition
The French clock and watch industry
Russian watch making business
British horology
Great British Masters revived thanks to the Swiss
The age of discovery relived through the clocks of John Harrison
Peter Speake-Marin, an Englishman taking Switzerland by storm
Multilingual Lexicon
The dictionary of watch making
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