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17.02.2025

"You don't have to be a sharp knife to assemble your own Swiss Army Knife".

10.12.2021

The D.I.Y Version of Watchmaking

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12.02.2022

Best Travel Experiences: Make Your Own Swiss Watch In Switzerland

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01.10.2020

You can create and assemble your own watch. This can be done in half a day at Initium.

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03.03.2021

Initium, from workshop to watch kit

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28.11.2022

It’s about time

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14.11.2022

Did you know? There's an excellent watchmaking school in Geneva, right in the heart of the Old Town.

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16.05.2022

Time well spent: how to make your own watch

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03.11.2021

Holiday Gift Guide 2021: The Best Customized And Personalized Gifts For Everyone On Your List

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27.06.2022

Measuring time: the history of Geneva watchmaking

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16.06.2016

Spending a day with a watchmaker to assemble your own watch is becoming increasingly popular and attractive. Le Temps went to Le Noirmont to handle tweezers and screwdrivers.

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08.09.2016

The Jurassien Mathieu Gigandet proposes a dive into the watchmaking country, in Le Noirmont. Welcomed by professionals, visitors are introduced to the profession. A start-up to be discovered in the RTS "Les Intrépides" series.

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25.01.2023

Initium dévoile son configurateur horloger

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02.09.2016

Les intrépides - presentation of Initium (episode 1)

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11.09.2017

The Watch Valley in the Jura offers the best insight into the art of Swiss watchmaking. Laymen with steady hands can even build their own watch.

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21.08.2016

On 26 August, the French-language channel is launching "Les Intrépides", a programme that follows five start-ups in their development.

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12.06.2020

After five years of existence, the balance sheet is flattering for the Jura startup Initium: more than 1000 participants left their workshops with their own Swiss watch on their wrist.

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01.11.2022

From Elvis’s diamond Omega to watchmaking lessons: The timeless joys of Switzerland’s ‘Watch Valley’

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21.05.2015

Immerse yourself in the world of watchmaking and create your own timepiece in the homeland of the first farmer-watchmakers! An original experience proposed by Initium.

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01.12.2020

Initium: Le bon moment pour investir dans les montres à domicile

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23.09.2016

Les intrépides - Initium in front of the jury (episode 5)

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05.06.2015

Follow an Initium course in pictures, thanks to a report by Canal Alpha

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20.08.2016

Initium CreaWatch, a company based in Le Noirmont offering immersions into the world of timepieces, has been selected to represent the Jura region on the new RTS programme "Les Intrépides".

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01.05.2015

A tailor-made watch is good. It's even better to assemble it yourself.

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24.08.2016

Very quickly, we understood that people wanted to be actors, and that we had to allow them to assemble their mechanical watches themselves. - Mathieu Gigandet - Mathieu Gigandet

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19.03.2015

You can choose your timepiece at Baselworld, which opens today, but you can also assemble one yourself, thanks to a small Jura company.

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07.09.2017

The Watch Valley in the Jura offers the best insight into the art of Swiss watchmaking. Laymen with steady hands can even build their own watch.

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01.10.2017

Initium - initiation in Latin - is thus the eternal memory of a unique experience of the mechanics of time.

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01.10.2017

Initium - initiation in Latin - is thus the eternal memory of a unique experience of the mechanics of time.

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15.07.2023

For centuries, watches have exemplified how special human-made objects can be.

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09.10.2023

Suisse : réaliser votre propre tourbillon pour 18.500 chf avec Initium

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10.10.2023

Le Parcours Tourbillon proposé par Initium

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17.10.2023

Initium’s New Watchmaking Course Enables You To Build Your Custom Tourbillon Watch

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30.08.2023

Create Your Own Furlan Marri Watch with Initium's Immersive Watchmaking Workshops

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27.04.2022

Destination... Geneva: The best of what the Swiss city has to offer

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11.12.2021

Initium lance son nouveau kit d’assemblage de montre « Kairos »

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