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The Life and Times of Jean-Claude Biver, a Swiss Watch Legend
The making of the modern watch industry.
Originally published by Joe Thompson on Hodinkee.
That was Jean-Claude Biver in Nyon, Switzerland, in 2005, in a conversation with me five months after he had launched the first Hublot Big Bang watch. We were discussing his then 30-year career in the Swiss watch industry. He had already seemed to have nine lives. He went on to have what seems like nine more.