Our thematic selections of watches


Our thematic selections of watches

Watch Curator ’18
- Skulls

MEMENTO MORI

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By Europa Star
October 2018


Watch Curator '18- Skulls

Memento Mori… Remember that you must die! Our time on Earth has a beginning and an end. Without death, there would be no birth.

T

he art of time cannot escape this sine qua non of our existence. And since the dawn of horology, it has reminded us of it. One of the most famous examples is the watch in the shape of a skull that Mary Stuart, haunted by death, ordered in 1560, a time of religious wars, from the watchmaker Moyse of Blois. She wore it on a chain around her neck. But not for long, because in 1587, she was decapitated on the orders of Elizabeth I.

Today, what was then a metaphysical reminder has turned into a marketing device. But one so prolific and successful that it gives pause for thought.

Today, what was then a metaphysical reminder has turned into a marketing device. But one so prolific and successful that it gives pause for thought. Is our troubled time so obsessed with death that we secretly try to conjure it by displaying it so systematically on our wrists?

All mentioned prices are indicative and correspond to price segment.

TO READ MORE
Europa Star Watch Curator ’18 is a selection of 147 watches classified under 13 specific trends:
Tourbillons - Globes - Sun, Moon & Stars - Purity - Open-worked - Skulls - Sport - Tough - New displays - Barocco - Vintage & Neo-vintage - Connected - Calibres.


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- Tourbillons

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Although always, or nearly always, confined to their cages, tourbillons are breaking free. They are beating at every frequency, in every genre of watch and (…)

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- Globes

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- Sun, Moon & Stars

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- Open-Worked

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- Sport

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- Tough

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- New Display

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- Barocco

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- Connected

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