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Didier Cretin and Didier Bretin
Browsing the vendors coming to Watchtime NY I saw Artime and noticed their first piece the ART01 with the watchmaker's name on the dial - Didier Bretin. Formally of GF and before that Dufour. Huh, sounds a lot Didier Cretin the watch maker who's name is on the GF Signature 1....
Is this a Swiss thing for people to change their names? Could Didier perhaps not put his name on the new watch of the new brand because of some handcuffs from GF (which would suck)? Are these in fact two different Didiers since Didier is the most common swiss first name like "John" in the US? Maybe he married into the Bretin family and took his significant other's last name? š
Didier Cretin and Didier Bretin
Browsing the vendors coming to Watchtime NY I saw Artime and noticed their first piece the ART01 with the watchmaker's name on the dial - Didier Bretin. Formally of GF and before that Dufour. Huh, sounds a lot Didier Cretin the watch maker who's name is o...
Perhaps because Cretin is not the most flattering surnameā¦
Cretin more or less means āstupidā in French. Dirk
I donāt think cretin was his real surname.
Cretin is someone who is up to stupid mischief. It was probably a word play or a nickname they gave him his friends in the school years. His real surname is probably Bretin and he somehow decided to use the real one for Artime. As itās obvious these two g...
Wow it turns out actually what you wondered
is true, never would have guessed! Though Iām still having trouble to understand who in his right mind would take a surname like cretin for his family, probably his great grandfather was a real cretin back then and thought it would be funny, turns out it ...
Same guy, new name
When I met Stephen Forsay in Geneva, I asked him if Didier Cretin was still with the GF team. My motivation was to learn if it would be possible to meet the man who was instrumental to design and develop my Signature 1. Stephen rolled his eyes a bit when ...