The Geneva-based watchmaker provides a highly original service: it restores and repairs its oldest timepieces before putting them on sale in its boutiques (...)

Can you think of a single brand that doesn’t offer a chronograph in their current line-up? The chronograph is still perceived today as one of the most (...)

At the end of the Roaring Twenties, Swiss entrepreneur Hugo Buchser laid the foundations for the magazine Europa Star. Among tourist guides, a business (...)

In 1930, Europa Star’s founder launched the Buyers’ Guide for the Watchmaking and Allied Trades.

Although they differ greatly in appearance, the markets of the Middle Ages and today’s big watchmaking exhibitions share the same commercial ambitions. (...)

In 1974, Tissot sold precisely 919,200 watches with mechanical calibres of its own manufacturing. Ten years later, in 1984, the total number of watches (...)

The chronograph, an ingenious invention of modern times, has taken the measure of human progress for nearly two centuries.

SPECIAL RELEASE: Geneva, May 2010