Geneva, Switzerland
Advancing the Heritage of Armenians in Jewellery
PATRONS NEWS
AJF is proud to announce that a number of organizations renewed their pledge to support its programs and several new sponsors have joined its patrons' ranks. We wholeheartedly thank the following for their contributions over the past several months:
Canadian Jewellers Association, Jewelers Mutual Insurance, AJA of Ontario, Invessa Financial and Insurance Services, École de gemmologie de Montréal, Melisende Diamonds, Telus and Mr. Alfred Boghosian, Dr. Apo Papazian (Montreal), Mr. Habib Malo (Montreal), Mr. Levon Yappar (Montreal), Mr. Harout Khatchadourian (Beirut), the Urun family (Los Angeles), Mr. Diran Avedian (Montreal), Mr. Harout Missirian (Beirut) and Ms. Sylvia Minassian (Los Angeles).
Vartan Sirmakes, President and CEO of Franck Muller, is preparing to celebrate his company's silver jubilee in high style. According to Gregory Pons of Bijoux Magazine:
"Product innovation is not at rest for the "Master of Complications", with watches as contemporary as the Vanguard, and "off the track" as the Backswing. The production facilities are running at full and new jobs are advertised at Genthod, where a new factory is being built (...) in order to re-group the existing workshops scattered today in the Geneva countryside, and create the "Versailles of watchmaking" - in Vaud style - which has always been a dream at Franck Muller. The facilities will be ready for the silver jubilee, or the first quarter century anniversary of the watch manufacture, in 2017 ..."
AJF is proud to be associated with Frank Muller, which is producing a special limited series celebrating the Armenian Alphabet exclusively for the foundation's Gold and Silver Patrons. Only 38 gold watches will be made, one for each letter of the Armenian alphabet. This synthesis of master watchmaking tradition and contemporary design dedicated to the Armenian Culture has been made available thanks to the generous contribution of Mr. Vartan Sirmakes.