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IWC’s Da Vinci through the Europa Star archive
GUEST COLUMN
June 2020
A watch enthusiast and tech professional based in the US, Stephen Foskett has been one of our most avid readers since we’ve started publicising our (...)
A tribute to Peter Baumberger (1939-2010)
HOMAGE
May 2020
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the passing of Peter Baumberger (Koppingen, 1939-Bienne, 2010), a brilliant watchmaker who invested his passion in (...)
Europa Star: a century of watch journalism
A HISTORY OF RESILIENCE
May 2020
We are entering the anniversary of the decade that saw the birth of the Europa Star publishing house, one century ago. It was during the Roaring Twenties, (...)
Cartier, jeweller of kings to luxury watchmaker
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
May 2020
Today, Cartier is one of the leading Swiss watch brands. Along with Rolex and Omega, it occupies the highly coveted segment of “accessible luxury”, i.e. (...)
The watch show that should inspire the future Geneva show
RETROSPECTIVE
April 2020
The project of a new world watch show in Geneva next April has been launched. Behind-the-scenes discussions are taking place to decide on its structure. (...)
1984: When Gerald Genta challenged the watchmaking establishment
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
April 2020
The opening up of luxury watchmaking to contemporary creative horizons may have begun when Gerald Genta made a splash at the “Montres et Bijoux” exhibition (...)
Pandemics and horology
ARCHIVES
March 2020
In 1918, at the end of World War One, the Spanish flu pandemic strikes. It will go on to cause 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide. To save Swiss (...)
From Bulova to Omega: 50 years of lunar adventures
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
March 2020
Today, we tend to associate the conquest of space with the Omega Speedmaster – the only watch worn on the moon, as the Swatch Group manufacture emphasises (...)
2003: Horology hit by SARS (from our archives)
CORONAVIRUS
March 2020
The comparison is not 100% accurate, obviously. But we wanted to find in our archives the impact that the first pandemic of the 21st century, SARS, had on (...)
Time to reflect on the fate of the watch industry
EUROPA STAR CLUB
March 2020
Europa Star provides a unique resource to help you gain perspective on what is happening to the watch industry today, by looking through the lens of (...)
Treasures from Enicar’s golden age
March 2020
The legendary Swiss watch company founded in 1913 comes to life again in a beautiful book by Dutchman Martijn van der Ven. The author used illustrations (...)
1950-2020: The voices of my ancestors... and mine
EDITORIAL
January 2020
As wishes are in order for 2020, I succumbed to the temptation to look at what my predecessors had written as Europa Star entered each new decade since (...)
The saga of the Bivouac by Favre-Leuba
THROUGH THE LENS OF THE EUROPA STAR ARCHIVES
November 2019
In August 1964, the great mountaineering pioneers Walter Bonatti and Michel Vaucher took four days to conquer the arduous, virgin North face of Whymper (...)
Discovering Backes & Strauss
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
November 2019
The timepieces crafted by Backes & Strauss are as rare as it gets. We have been following the brand for a long time, and for good reason: it is the (...)
An exclusive interview with Philippe Stern
PATEK PHILIPPE
September 2019
Europa Star was granted the rare privilege of being able to discuss with Philippe Stern himself. Although in 2009 he moved aside to allow his son, Thierry (...)
A new resource for watch professionals and aficionados
EUROPA STAR CLUB
Europa Star is offering exclusive access to over 60 years of magazine archives. The Club, aimed at both watch professionals and watch lovers, grants access (...)
The history of Enicar in an upcoming book
LEGENDS OF WATCHMAKING
August 2019
‘Time for a change: Discovering vintage Enicar’ is a book written by Martijn van der Ven. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, it will be ready for (...)
Zenith El Primero: a retrospective
EUROPA STAR ARCHIVES
July 2019
We are lucky enough (or old enough!) to have had the chance to witness in real time the birth of the El Primero chronograph at Zenith in 1969. For the (...)
One giant leap for Omega
EUROPA STAR ARCHIVES
July 2019
For 50 years, Omega has been capitalising on the extraordinary adventure that made its Speedmaster the first watch to be worn on the Moon. In our July 1969 (...)
TAG Heuer nostalgia
EUROPA STAR ARCHIVES
July 2019
Back in 1998, we highlighted in our pages the “power of the past” in the watch industry as TAG Heuer, a pioneer of the “vintagemania” trend, revived the (...)