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Christian Prouteau... the watch of the founder of the GIGN a lip tourbillon de gaulle for the 45th anniversary

It is on the forty-fifth anniversary of the creation of the GIGN that Christian Prouteau, the first commander of the elite unit of the national gendarmerie will work on an exceptional watch. Amateur and passionate about watchmaking, Christian Prouteau will design this watch with...

omega seamaster from its origins to today... .. at the service of all professionals

Omega Seamaster… from its origins to today It was in 1946 that the Seamaster model project was initiated, a prototype model whose purpose was to allow Omega to enter the very closed circle at the end of the 1940s of manufacturers who mastered the waterproofing of watch cases. As...

Yema, the French watch brand that marked the seventies.... with rallygraf, yatchingraf, astronaut or superman watches

Yema, the French watch brand that marked the seventies with the superman. There exists in the collective unconscious of watch collectors a brand with which professional watches are associated. Today it is Rolex and its submariners or explorer and other gmt-masters that hold the...

Claudie Haigneré... Breitling aerospace Mission Cassiopée on the MIR station... ...The first French astronaut in space

Claudie Haigneré… breitling aerospace mission Cassiopée, the first Frenchwoman in space aboard the MIR station "At the origin of a feat, there is inspiration and enormous preparation", it is with these words that Claudie Haigneré will conclude her intervention during a speech...

W-10 The Military Queen, The military watch of the British forces ... ... from the end of the Seventies ...

W-10 the queen, The British military watch of the late seventies. At the end of the 1970s, the stock of Commonwealth military watches had far exceeded its potential use. Coming mostly from watches that began their career in the early fifties, see during the Second World War, the...

Seiko: From the Hattori workshop to bullhead chronograph watches... ... The Japanese watch brand that left its mark on the seventies

Having become one of the main players in the Japanese watch industry since the middle of the twentieth century, the Seiko watch manufacturer was at the forefront of the Japanese commercial offensive of the 1970s on a world watch market numbed by years of hegemony. of Swiss...

Sean Connery, James Bond 007, Rolex Submariner... icons are forever...

Sean Connery, the James Bond 007 against Doctor No of 1962, of 1963 in Good Kisses from Russia, in 1964 in Goldfinger and the following year in Operation Thunder will continue eternally to embody the secret agent of his gracious majesty. His masterful interpretation of the fictional...

Rolex Sea Dweller, more than a waterproof watch.. ...a tool at the service of deep-sea divers

It is in Antiquity that the first known underwater works date back: research by snorkelers to recover valuables from wrecks (the initiative of which is attributed to King Xerxes) or the refloating of ships. and the construction of port works by the divers of Alexander the Great equipped...

Vostok: The watchmaking sputnik that came from the cold... a Russian watch to materialize the glory of the Soviet Union the kommandirskie project

Vostok, the brand unknown to most Westerners, has been manufacturing mechanical and automatic watches since 1942 in the greatest tradition of the Jura watch industry. It is also, remarkably, one of the few manufactures in the world to produce its own movements without purchasing a...

Tom Hanks, the Omega Speedmaster, and Apollo 13 the snoopy award touch

Tom Hanks and his Omega Speedmaster…. Houston, we have a problem In 1995, Tom Hanks took on the role of astronaut James Lowell in Ron Howard's Blockbuster "Apollo 13". A film that will deeply mark him and that will push him to produce the twelve-episode TV series "From the Earth to...