20 April 2012 - Professor Christian Robert, a lecturer in microtechnical conception at Switzerland’s He-Arc (Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie), and his students presented an application of the cycloidal reducer for displaying the hours and minutes on a watch dial last year.
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16 December 2011 - After three years of development work together with the EPFL, the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne, Hublot presented its new “Magic Gold” at its factory in Nyon on 15 December 2011.
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A lecturer at the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie and his students have designed a new mechanical system for a complication watch movement.
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As Confucius said, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” The Europa Star Knowledge will give salespeople all the essential tools for understanding and selling fine timepieces.
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At the height of business back in the 1960s, there used to be over 60 watch hand manufacturers in Switzerland, but now there are only half a dozen left serving the watch industry.
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Watch crystals are rarely referred to in the pages of Europa Star, except perhaps for the occasional mention in a watch caption, but the art of crafting sapphire crystal is a fascinating affair.
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There is something rather mystical about the art of enamel. Maybe it’s due to its ancient origins, or because it’s one of watchmaking’s best-guarded secrets, or…
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The Berner’s Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology is now available here for all your watch term translations in French, English, German and Spanish
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Maki-e 蒔絵 – which literally means “sprinkled picture” – is the most sophisticated of all lacquer techniques, designating a decorative operation in which the design is created by delicately sprinkling gold or silver dust over lacquer – usually black – while it is still wet.
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I can’t seem to wear mechanical watches. Either they work sporadically or they don’t work at all on my wrist. Why is that?
Luigi Zanneti, La Spezia, Italy
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What is a Perpetual Calendar watch and how does it work?
Maurice Duproz in Lyon, France
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Why do watches have rubies in them?
Eleanor Hawkins, Lancaster, England
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