Last Saturday, during TG5 lunchtime news, a report on the SIHH in Geneva showed some of the most interesting and entertaining novelties of the show (among them, the GP Jackpot). Among those interviewed was the President of the Sowind Group (to which the Girard-Perregaux and JeanRichard brands belong): Luigi Macaluso. It was a pity that the overlay caption passed him off as Franco Cologni, promoter and President of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie. Apart from the obvious difference in age (Franco Cologni is pictured here in the colour photo; in the black and white one, however, it is Luigi Macaluso), the belonging to two distinct watchmaking groups also distinguishes the two managers. If Franco Cologni is today rightly indicated as a watchmaking 'guru' (in this regard, an interview with him will be published in a few days in issue no. 157 of L'Orologio), he remains strongly linked to the Cartier brand and the Richemont Group, while Macaluso's Sowind prides itself on being one of the few independent realities of Haute Horlogerie... Who knows how the two protagonists will have taken it!
For those who want to see the video, just go to the page video.mediaset.com and enter the word 'Geneva' in the 'Video search'.
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