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“Covid has changed our relationship with the night” – L’Express
L’Express: Are the French living more and more at night? Luc Gwiazdzinski (1): In the long term, the answer is “yes”. For millennia, nighttime was simply a time for social…
from Paris to Monaco… Three new addresses to discover – L’Express
Paris: IWC Schaffhausen IWC Schaffhausen has just opened the IWC Apartment at 73, avenue des Champs-Elysées. Straddling two floors, new products, fine watchmaking and calibers are exhibited over 230 square…
when anniversary editions attract collectors – L’Express
Watchmaking is like wine: each year has its share of vintage editions. However, with one notable difference: on the watch side, no date risks being depreciated due to climatic hazards.…
no, Switzerland did not invent mechanical watchmaking – L’Express
“Switzerland did not found mechanical watchmaking,” recalls Pascal Ravessoud, vice-president of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH). Traveling to Paris to present the FHH Academy’s activities around watchmaking education…
these artists sensitive to the world of watches – L’Express
Berlin, February 2024. On the eve of the Depeche Mode concert, meeting with Martin Gore and Dave Gahan, the group’s leaders, to discover their new Hublot watch. “The fourth model…
“Moon Phase”, a mysterious complication – L’Express
“With its successive periods which are constantly repeated, the night star has naturally occupied an essential place in the division of time into days, months and years,” explains American author…
when watch manufacturers compete in inventiveness – L’Express
“Audacity is first of all having the courage to defend an idea.” For Gianfranco Ritschel, watchmaking expert and trainer, it is about daring to “break the codes, even if recognition…
“Time raises dizzying questions” – L’Express
L’Express: You have brought together in an anthology dozens of texts that writers and philosophers have devoted to time*. Why does this subject inspire them so much? Brigit Bontour: No…
these three new Parisian addresses to discover – L’Express
Rue de la Paix A. Lange & Söhne Rue de la Paix: A. Lange & Söhne © / Jordana Schramm/A. Lange & Söhne The Saxon manufacturer is expanding its presence…
the revival of a formerly masculine model – L’Express
If it is women who today offer them letters of nobility, the first so-called “secret” models were the prerogative of men: pocket watches, whose cover protected the dial, or housed…