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Between crisis and regulation. Genevan watchmaking in the crisis and reorganisation of the watchmaking sector in the 1930s
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Open in the appA specialist in the watchmaking crisis of the 1930s, historian Johann Boillat addresses the challenges of restructuring the timekeeping sector in Switzerland and Geneva following the 1929 stock market crash, with as witness a precious Helvetico-American brooch watch with Geneva finishings.