The acquisition of both companies by Singapore’s The Hour Glass, and the subsequent sale of both to Bulgari, occasioned a lot of hand-wringing, but there was as it turns out a silver lining. Though neither brand survives today as an independent company, much of the movement and design expertise that they represented is alive and well at Bulgari’s manufacturing center in the Vallée de Joux, in Le Sentier. There, a building which first housed Daniel Roth, and subsequently, both Roth and Genta, is now where the watchmaking craft and design language both represent is not only being kept alive, but is essential in the strongest sense of the word, to Bulgari’s many advances in fine watchmaking.
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