Let it shine, shine, shine! How watches can be read in the dark by Marcus Hanke   Ever since people had the technological know-how to measure time, there were some of the chronically sleepless type, who wanted to know what time it is, even when it was too dark to see the dials and hands. In the medieval cities, the nightshift guards sang out the hour, and in the more noble households, technically more refined innovations were introduced: clocks with a moving strip of paper, o...

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  PuristSPro Interviews Patrik Hoffmann by Dr. Marcus Hanke & Anthony Tsai   © December 2007 Patrik was born and raised in Basel, Switzerland and has been working in the watch business all his life - for about 25 years now. Having a degree in controlling from Switzerland, he worked for Oris as an accountant before he took a sabbatical and studied marketing and management in Michigan USA.  He then worked again for Oris for a couple of years before moving ...

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PuristSPro held an Ulysse Nardin event on Friday December 7, 2007 at The Peninsula Beverly Hills. 3 Ulysse Nardin execs were in attendance:Patrik Hoffman - US President of Ulysse NardinAhmad Shahriar - West Coast Regional Sales ManagerStefan Huber - Managing Director of Russia For the full report including tons of pictures and a couple video clips, please CLICK HERE  to get magically transported over to the report in our Ulysse Nardin forum! The main topics of the night were the UN Freak,...

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