March 2014 : Paul O’Neil, Denis Quimbrot, Gianluca Maina, Wolfgang Sickenberg, Olivier Müller, Bruno Jufe

Paul O’Neil is serving as editor of WorldTempus since April 1st. Until now, the bilingual Brit has written for Europa Star, Omega, and Wyler watches, as well as various international sports federations for which he has developed internet strategies.

 

In his capacity as Vice-President Marketing & Communications for TAG Heuer, Denis Quimbrot is the new driving force behind the image of the most dynamic team in this watchmaking segment. He will be able to put to good use his international experience acquired at BPI, Ogilvy, Grey and JWT where he was notably in charge of the Rolex account.

 

Gianluca Maina has been back in the field of watchmaking and jewellery since January when he became head of communication and marketing at de Grisogono, a role he held at Harry Winston for a number of years prior to re-launching luxury leather goods and accessory brand, Ghiso.

 

In his new position as director of operations at Christophe Claret, notably responsible for sales and marketing since November, Wolfgang Sickenberg has been testing the virtues of ‘small is beautiful’, after more than ten years at Blancpain and Audemars Piguet.

 

Olivier Müller is the new Managing Director at L.Leroy since January. Formerly at Chopard and Omega, the founder of the Villemont brand had been at the head of Laurent Ferrier for the past three years.

 

Bruno Jufer  has returned to the land of his birth in Grenchen as Vice-President Marketing & Sales for Eterna, in direct contact since January with the shareholder, the China Haidian Group. He was formerly CEO of Antoine Martin, after building most of his network and his career with the big groups.


Brice Lechevalier is editor-in-chief of GMT and Skippers, which he co-founded in 2000 and 2001 respectively. He has also been CEO of WorldTempus since it joined the GMT Publishing stable, of which he is director and joint shareholder. In 2012 he created the Geneva Watch Tour, and he has been an advisor to the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève since 2011. Also closely involved in sailing, he has published the magazine of the Société Nautique de Genève since 2003, and was one of the founders of the SUI Sailing Awards in 2009 and the Concours d’Elégance for motor boats at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2015.

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