Louis Moinet: The Masters of Time and Space
The story of a contemporary watch brand is both a journey into the past, and a quest for chronometric excellence in the present. Louis Moinet gives us the opportunity to demonstrate this.
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Louis Moinet Astronef watch.
As a watch collector, you may know the name Louis Moinet. He is the watchmaker who invented the chronograph, and the brand that bears his name is an exhibitor at Watches and Wonders Geneva. On the other hand, Moinet is no Abraham-Louis Breguet nor Adrienne Philippe, and no grand workshop called Louis Moinet ever graced Paris or Geneva. A little more than 10 years ago, the talents of this French watchmaker, artist and academic might have been unknown to you. Indeed, with reference to that time period, some of you might instead recall a great deal of fuss being made at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva over another French watchmaker, the relatively famous Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec?Â
Rieussec was already in the books as the inventor of the chronograph in 1822, and his life was better known than Moinet?s, given that he was in the registry of active watchmakers in Paris as early as 1810. In 2012, no one even knew Moinet?s birthplace, but a change was coming that would forever upend the other prevailing order in watchmaking. ?We said, from the Jura where we were, hello, excuse us, but there is a page missing from the history of watchmaking,? said Les Ateliers Lou...
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Louis Moinet Astronef watch.
As a watch collector, you may know the name Louis Moinet. He is the watchmaker who invented the chronograph, and the brand that bears his name is an exhibitor at Watches and Wonders Geneva. On the other hand, Moinet is no Abraham-Louis Breguet nor Adrienne Philippe, and no grand workshop called Louis Moinet ever graced Paris or Geneva. A little more than 10 years ago, the talents of this French watchmaker, artist and academic might have been unknown to you. Indeed, with reference to that time period, some of you might instead recall a great deal of fuss being made at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva over another French watchmaker, the relatively famous Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec?Â
Rieussec was already in the books as the inventor of the chronograph in 1822, and his life was better known than Moinet?s, given that he was in the registry of active watchmakers in Paris as early as 1810. In 2012, no one even knew Moinet?s birthplace, but a change was coming that would forever upend the other prevailing order in watchmaking. ?We said, from the Jura where we were, hello, excuse us, but there is a page missing from the history of watchmaking,? said Les Ateliers Lou...
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