Horological Meandering

Salon QP: pictures of the opening cocktail

 

The 2013 edition of the Salon QP has started yesterday with the opening cocktail which took place at the Saatchi Gallery. The Salon QP is becoming a key event for watches lovers in Europe and I could have this feeling thanks to the successful event organized yesterday, the raising number of exhibiting brands and the crowd who attended the cocktail. I propose you to browse the pictures I took during the event in order to depict you its atmosphere.

Let's start the show!

With Katidja Valy (De Bethune) and Alex Ghotbi (Vacheron Constantin):

At the Hermes booth:

The Jaquet-Droz engraver:

The watchmaker from Piaget. I think he will show me a lot of interesting things today!

The young enamel lady from Julien Coudray:

The HYT team with Vincent Perriard on the left:

David Gouten in his new position of CEO of Manufacture Royale:

Côme de Valbray:

Rexhep Rexhepi, the young watchmaker of Akrivia:

The Hautlence team, Caroline Buechler and Guillaume Tetu:

Benoît Mintiens (Ressence) and Emmanuel Bouchet (Centagora), the father of Opus 12:

Emmanuel Bouchet and Ludovic Balllouard, two Opus watchmakers together:

Konstantin Chaykin:

Romain Gauthier:

With Lucia Toro (Lange & Söhne Western Europe):

With Lucia Toro and Jacques Thomas:

Eleonor Picciotto and Virginie Meylan (MB&F):

Philippe Dubois (Badollet):

Stepan Sarpaneva:

Peter Speake-Marin and Felix Baumgartner (Urwerk):

Kari Voutilainen:

Andreas Strehler who has been awarded very recently with the Gaïa prize:

Max Büsser:

The Scofield team (Giles Ellis and M.N. Hopwood):

Manuel Emch (RJ - Romain Jerome):

The former hurdler Colin Jackson is involved in a project with Maurice Lacroix:

Bruno Belamich and Carlos Rosillo (Bell & Ross):

The Breva team with Vincent Dupontreué:







Some pictures of the context of the cocktail. I love the Saatchi Gallery, I do believe it is a perfect venue for this kind of event:

Once again, James Gurney and his team organized perfectly the event and it was for me a true pleasure to attend it because it gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of watchmakers and friends. And as we know, watchmaking is firstly a question of people who work together around a project.

Fr.Xavier
This message has been edited by foversta on 2013-11-08 01:59:25