In 1995, Raymond Warrell , then a professor of medicine at Cornell University, told Genta' s management it wasn't doing enough to develop Genasense, a drug that could make existing chemotherapies more ...

Born in Geneva in 1931, Genta earned his Swiss Federal Diploma as a jeweler and goldsmith in 1951 at age 20. By 23, Genta was designing watches for the storied watch house Universal Genève. Today, ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Gérald Genta Gefica Safari.

No name looms larger in watch design than Gérald Genta‘s. The prolific designer—who many credit with saving the Swiss watch industry from the Quartz Crisis of the 1970s thanks to penning popular ...

"Genta, whose magnificent oeuvre of watch design spanned more than 50 years, designed not one but two watches that can be said without exaggeration to have changed the world of wristwatches forever." ...

This spring, Sotheby’s hosts “Gérald Genta: Icon of Time,” a series of sales taking place in Switzerland, Hong Kong, New York, and online featuring 100 original drawings by the legendary Swiss watch ...

Gerald Genta Mickey Mouse watches are the most cheerful collectibles in the world of horology. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be taken seriously. The genre was created by the world’s most famous ...

As part of its LVMH Watch Week presentation, Gérald Genta has debuted the new Gentissima Oursin Fire Opal timepiece. The ...

It used to be said that life began at 40 but it was a fortnight before his 39th birthday that Gérald Genta received a phone call that would change his life. It was 4pm on the day before the Swiss ...

During a pre-Watches and Wonders event in London in late February, IWC invited Genta’s widow and business partner, Évelyne Genta, to shed light on her husband’s design approach, his experience with ...

Genta Inc. is looking to expand its DNA- and RNA-based drug programs through two separate transactions - an acquisition for which it could pay up to $30 million, and a nonexclusive license to a broad ...

Evelyne Genta is Monaco’s ambassador to the UK — and meticulous custodian of her late husband Gérald’s design archive “His first words to me were, ‘What an ugly watch you’re wearing’. And I thought, ...