The Ballon d'Or is the only individual distinction to be awarded in the world of football.
And this since 1956, at the initiative of the newspaper France Football.
This year, the title goes once again to Leo Messi, now holder of 7 awards ...
Few of them knew the identity of the winners, male and female, before the Parisian gala evening was held.
However, one woman knew it: the one who patiently engraved her name on the back of the case of a Purnell Tourbillon watch, presented to each of the winners of this 2021 Golden Ball. This young watchmaking house created by Maurizio Mazzocchi, passionate about football and ex-player himself, has the tourbillon as his only religion.
And more precisely the spherion, a sophisticated complication refined by master watchmaker Éric Coudray.
Invented 220 years ago by Breguet, the tourbillon was originally designed to compensate for gravitational forces and make watches even more precise.
Eric Coudray, who once had
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