Jean-Claude Biver quotes

“I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.”
-- Jean-Claude Biver

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“Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous,”
-- Jean-Claude Biver

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“The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.”
-- Jean-Claude Biver

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“The difference between the TAG Heuer watch and the Apple Watch is very important. That one is called Apple, and this one is called TAG Heuer.”
-- Jean-Claude Biver

Source : "Tag Heuer joins forces with Intel and Google to produce smartwatch designed to call time on Apple" by Ben Rossington, www.mirror.co.uk. March 19, 2015.

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“I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.”
-- Jean-Claude Biver

Source : "TAG Heuer Discards 'Swiss Made' Label to Take on Apple Watch". Interview with Corinne Gretler and Jan Schwalbe, www.bloomberg.com. January 20, 2015.

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“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”

Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963

“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”

“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”

“Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.”

“How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."”

“Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?”

“There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.”

“I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'”

“The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people”

“We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.”