30 January 2012 - After considering themes such as “The watch user in a changing world” (2009) and “Watchmaking and its ambassadors” (2010), this year’s international watch marketing day, which was held at the Théâtre de l’Heure Bleue in La Chaux-de-Fonds on November 3rd, looked at the “Asian Dream”.
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30 January 2012 - Following on the success of Belles Montres in Paris, the organisers opened the first Belles Montres in Shanghai, China from October 26 - 30.
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16 January 2012 - Roger Dubuis, now a part of the Richemont Group, as a brand and a movement manufacturer, is poised to be relaunched, with Georges Kern supervising the brand and Jean-Marc Pontroué set to take over the reins officially as CEO from next year.
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16 January 2012 - Well known for its world records in extremely thin watches, Piaget has done it again with the Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin.
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9 January 2012 - We all know well the activities of Parmigiani’s restoration workshops, since Michel Parmigiani himself passed by the great school of restoration, and is also responsible for the fabulous collection of timepieces belonging to the Sandoz Family Foundation, a major shareholder in the Parmigiani brand.
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9 January 2012 - Montblanc is in the middle of celebrating the 190th anniversary of the chronograph this year and their SIHH previews continue this theme with three special chronographs.
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2 January 2012 - “If you’re trendy, you’re already too late,” says Alexandre Peraldi, Director of the Baume & Mercier Design Studio since 2001. The strictness of this dismissive phrase explains the timeless elegance of the brand’s models over the past decade.
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2 January 2012 - In 1966, Girard-Perregaux received the Neuchâtel Observatory’s Centenary Prize in recognition of its developments in research and precision.
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19 December 2011 - A new GMT model will be the star of the SIHH 2012 for Greubel Forsey. It’s a model that signals a certain maturity of the brand’s unique tourbillon technologies, since it is the first time that one of these so-called “fundamental inventions” by the company has been associated with a complication.
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19 December 2011 - Cartier has served up models for both sexes as its appetiser for the 2012 SIHH, each with a unique dial that immediately draws the eye to the watch. For ladies, there is the Masse Secrète Panther Décor watch and for gentlemen the Rotonde de Cartier Cadran Lové Tourbillon.
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19 December 2011 - For SIHH 2012, Ralph Lauren continues its classic and timeless direction with two new watches in the Ralph Lauren Slim Classique Collection – the 867.
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19 December 2011 - Officine Panerai presented its latest model in October 2011 at the inauguration of a special exhibition entitled “O’Clock. time design, design time” organised in partnership with La Triennale di Milano Design Museum.
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19 December 2011 - At the beginning of October 2011, Vacheron Constantin announced a plan for investing CHF 100 million between now and 2020.
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19 December 2011 - Audemars Piguet is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Royal Oak as well as the twentieth anniversary of its “extreme” Offshore version and the twentieth anniversary of the Audemars Piguet Foundation.
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5 December 2011 - At Baselworld 2010 the German watch brand NOMOS from Glashütte surprised a lot of people and irritated others with their brand-new booth. The two-storey construction had an outside staircase, which seemingly had been demolished before the fair had even started.
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28 November 2011 - For those who need to know, Dubois Dépraz is famous, a complications manufacturer of extremely high quality, working with some of the best brand names in the business.
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31 October 2011 - If you believe that fine watches necessarily need to come from Switzerland, then you are mistaken. The small hamlet of Glashütte near Dresden in eastern Germany is home to the Glashütte Original manufacture, where mechanical masterpieces are made.
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24 October 2011 - The Tutima brand has just presented the first totally German-made minute repeater, and never before realised in the city of Glashütte, where it recently re-established a new small manufacture.
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17 October 2011 - Patek Philippe recently presented a new timepiece, never before featured by the Geneva manufacture—a “regulator” type dial that also includes an annual calendar function.
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17 October 2011 - “What is the biggest challenge facing the watch industry today? The focus of the brands is on the Chinese customer right now, but there is no way to know how long their buying power will last. If the Chinese customer disappears, what will the watch industry do?
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17 October 2011 - On the borders of Switzerland, Germany has always been a great watchmaking nation. It has two main areas—one in the southern part of the nation in the Black Forest, and one in the northeast, in the Dresden region of Saxony.
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17 October 2011 - Every self-respecting brand seeks to train, as well as possible, their most influential “ambassadors”—those individuals who, by virtue of being in the stores, are in direct contact with the “real” client.
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17 October 2011 - Some 650km south-west of Germany’s watchmaking hub in Glashütte, nestled in the Black Forest, lies the town of Schramberg – the home of what was once the world’s biggest watch and clock manufacturer, the Uhrenfabrik Junghans GmbH & Co. KG.
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17 October 2011 - We often see the mention “COSC certified” associated with a watch, although, in reality, it applies to only three per cent of Swiss timepieces. With its abbreviation standing for “Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres,” what exactly is the COSC?
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6 October 2011 - Watchmaking? Ask anyone and they will most probably think of Switzerland, the watchmakers in Geneva and the Jura.
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23 August 2011 - Japanese maki-e lacquer brings a touch of the East to Swiss watchmaking with techniques that are even older than the measurement of time.
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23 August 2011 - Not content with limited editions or unique pieces, an increasing number of watch collectors are now commissioning their very own timepieces, but is this trend a boon or bane for the watch industry?
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23 August 2011 - Among all of the so-called ‘free’ escapements, the detent escapement, which appeared during the 18th century, is considered one of the Grails of chronometric precision.
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23 August 2011 - Europa Star wanted to return in more detail to the Mikrotimer Flying 1000 Concept Chronograph that was presented this spring at BaselWorld. To do so, we met with Guy Semon, head of R&D at TAG Heuer.
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23 August 2011 - It is often said that a ‘revelation’ happens suddenly, like a bolt of lightning. Sometimes, however, ‘revelations’ take their own sweet time. This is the case of Revelation, the brand, founded by Anouk Danthe and Olivier Leu.
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14 July 2011 - Bremont, Hanhart and Graham.
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14 July 2011 - After the foray of artistic activity at the SIHH in January, expectations were high during BaselWorld for even more enamel, engraving, lacquer work, high-jewellery settings, mosaic and the like.
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13 July 2011 - Steelcraft, Atelier deMonaco, Misaki, Ladoire, Laurent Ferrier, Badollet, Breitling, Alain Silberstein, Claude Meylan
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12 July 2011 - TAG Heuer, Tissot, Graff Luxury Watches and Ball Watches.
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12 July 2011 - One of the best places on earth for seeking out fabulous new women’s watches is BaselWorld in springtime. It is the Mecca for watch professionals the world over.
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11 July 2011 - Franc Vila, Ritmo Mundo, Elicott, Hautlence, Hanhart, Peter Tanisman, Century, David Van Heim, Longines, Marvin, Aspen
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7 July 2011 - Antoine Martin, Bell & Ross, HD3, Frédérique Constant, Alpina, Ebel, Gc
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5 July 2011 - At BaselWorld, Seiko gave its ritual press conference under a double and contradictory sign: the brand is celebrating its 130th anniversary this year, but the tsunami and nuclear catastrophe that followed were on everyone’s mind.
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1 July 2011 - Kari Voutilainen, always in search of absolute chronometry, pushes even further his classic expression with a very interesting new timepiece called the ‘Vingt-8’.
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28 June 2011 - In this great mixture of the most diverse and even contradictory trends, a few general movements and a few precursory signs emerge, which are above and beyond the simple (relative) back-surge of gratuitous extravagance.
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23 June 2011 - There were 637 watch companies exhibiting at BaselWorld. Now, multiply that number by several new collections and then again by the number of references in each collection. Finally, you will arrive at a number that is beyond comprehension.
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7 June 2011 - This year’s premiere product for Swatch is the Colour Codes in the Lady Collection, an interesting colourful collection of quartz timepieces in plastic with extra long Lady Double Tour straps. At 50 CHF, this is the kind of trendy, fashion watch that all ladies, young and not so young, can add to their collection, in many different colours.
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24 May 2011 - Last year, Tissot went diving with the SeaTouch, and this year it’s back to the water in a big way with the SeaStar, a mechanical chronograph that is water resistant to 300 metres
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10 May 2011 - Here at Europa Star, we love a good story and the new BaselWorld introduction by Longines has a very good one indeed.
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26 April 2011 - In unveiling the new Grande Seconde SW Red Gold, Jaquet Droz adds a noble touch of distinction to its Urban London sports line, while Omega introduces a brand new Ladymatic, which integrates the brand’s most innovative technology.
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12 April 2011 - At Europa Star, we typically profile individual brands on their own. However, in this report we have decided to take a different approach with the Swatch Group and take a look at the group as a whole.
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31 March 2011 - Bevelling, engine-turning, circular graining and mirror polishing are just some of the terms that we hear about in the watch industry every day, and each technique is an art in its own right.
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23 March 2011 - We are all small seconds hands ticking on the surface of time before disappearing and ceding the place to another small hand that will travel its own way around the dial, before it too disappears. To capture this beating of time is the wonderful profession of the watchmaker.
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16 March 2011 - In the beginning, there was ‘Rodolphe by Longines’, then ‘Rodolphe by Rodolphe’, and then simply ‘Rodolphe’, followed by ‘Rodolphe’ at the heart of the Franck Müller Group. Now, there is ‘Manufacture Rodolphe Cattin SA’.
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8 March 2011 - At the very same moment the SIHH was opening its doors, Richemont published its numbers for the last quarter of 2010.
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