Le Garde Temps

A few posts ago, I published a few of Michel’s “Le Garde Temps, la Naissance d’une Montre” sketches from his notebook.

Michel’s notebook plays such an important role in the adventure, such it is worth its own post.

It reminds me of the inseparable notepad that ...

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Michel has worked on the positioning of the different gears that will make up the gear train of the movement. Last week, I published a a sketch showing the flow of energy from the barrel through the centre and third wheels to the re...

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We are now getting into the heart of the matter: How does Michel Boulanger go about creating his timepiece? Now that the main parameters have been established, Michel begins by drawing the initial sketches, on which he has laid out different functional elements of the timep...

A big hello from a beautiful place – Lignières in Switzerland – where the weather is back to how it should be – spring like! To show you, I have made a mini photo gallery that you can find in the photos/videos section of the website.

Back to the topic of the day. A few days ago I m...

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This, my second blog post, looks at the at the basic parameters of the timepiece that Michel Boulanger will make for the “Le Garde Temps, la Naissance d’une Montre” adventure.

Robert Greubel, Philippe Dufour, Stephen Forsey and Michel have defined the princip...

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Recently I happened to meet Robert Greubel, Stephen Forsey and Philippe Dufour who told me abo...

A watch movement is a very complicated mechanism that can have hundreds of high-precision interacting components on multiple levels. The components, mechanism...

Michel’s expectations and the public’s reaction

This was not my first SIHH – I have had the privilege of attending before, but it was my first time presenting at the SIHH. You always hope that people will be interested in your project, but until the launch you never...

Excellent article on the website of Worldtempus http://www.worldtempus.com/fr/actualites/a-la-une/detail/article/1329207288-perpetuer-loperation-garde-temps/...

Following the launch of “Le Garde Temps, la Naissance d'une Montre”, the team was delighted with the enthusiastic response that the initiative received.
Robert Greubel said: “As one of the major dates in the horological calendar, the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva (...