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On the couch with Tim Burton
A screening room is where we caught up with Tim Burton whose latest film, “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", a screen adaptation of the children's book with Eva Green in the title role, will be released this autumn. Comfortably seated, we set out to discover what goes on in the mind and on the wrist of this most unconventional of directors.
Still waiting for the upturn
There was no summer hiatus for the downward trend in watch exports, as the fall in shipments noted over recent months continued in July. Figures published by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry speak for themselves.
François Junod, the automaton wizard
He is the artist and craftsman behind the Pushkin android, which "composes" and pens poems it then illustrates with a drawing. François Junod uses a combination of imagination and technical expertise to produce the most extraordinarily engineered automatons. We met him at his studio in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland.
Jaeger-LeCoultre – Portrait of the artist
The Reverso à Eclipse lends its instantly recognisable form to the enameller's brush in this vibrant tribute to the Dutch impressionist. A limited edition of four pieces and a masterpiece which can be admired at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
