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Raymond Weil: The Independent Watchmaker Who Built a Family Dynasty During Crisis A Man, a Crisis, and a Watch In 1976, when the Swiss watchmaking industry was hemorrhaging to death, a 50-year-old man in Geneva made a decision that shouldn’t have worked. The Quartz Crisis had decimated mechanical watchmaking. Japanese manufacturers had proven that tiny […]

In the crowded halls of Baselworld 1999, most visitors’ attention was drawn to the vast, brightly lit stands of established Swiss luxury watch brands. Hidden away in a more modest corner, under the banner of the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI), a relatively unknown French watchmaker was showing a small series of tourbillon watches