Focus on a Photographic Testimony of the Watchmaking History of Jura, Published in 1980

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"When we were watchmakers" by Simone Oppliger is the precious testimony of a pivotal moment in Swiss economic history. The photographer documents daily life in a region deeply shaken by the quartz crisisPhotographer and watchmaker daughter, Simone Oppliger knew from inside this Jurassian territory that extends from "from the Locle to Saint-Imier", between Neuchâtel and Bern. In a television interview dated 1981, she says how, after several years…