LAKIN@LARGE - AFTER-SALES WHAT?
June 2014
Now be honest, how often have you heard me moan? Once, maybe twice, perhaps never? I’m not a natural moaner, I have to work at it, slowly develop some ire. (…)
SPOTLIGHT - TITONI, Revival of the Seascoper
June 2014
Titoni has newly introduced the revived model Seascoper, which is based on the company’s historic diving model from 1970s. Handcrafted to technical (…)
Watchmaking proposals… Europa Star June-July Edition 2014 - An in-depth report on over 100 watchmaking brands
May 2014
In ten years the watch has undergone an astonishing transformation. Initially a nice-looking, more or less disposable, largely utilitarian object, it has (…)
Watch Business / BaselWorld 2014: An Uneasy Feeling...
April 2014
BaselWorld left us with an uneasy feeling this year … in the halls, more munificent ever, the impression was that the industry was cruising, ‘business as (…)
Watchmaking Industry: MR. UP and MR. DOWN
March 2014
Everyone has their ups and downs, the days when they are full of beans and those when they are at the end of their tether. So is the watchmaking industry up (…)
RETROPERSPECTIVE - The Watch Year 2013/2014: three-fold VERTICAL INTEGRATION
March 2014
It is always easier to look back and analyse what happened last year than to look ahead and try to predict, even in the most cursory way, what will happen (…)
Letter from China - CHINA WATCH MARKET in 2013, a zone of turbulence
March 2014
After years of growth at over 40 per cent, the Chinese market started to lose steam in 2012 and took a nose dive in 2013. Is this the chronicle of a (…)
SWATCH GROUP - The invigorating optimism of François Thiébaud, the boss of TISSOT
March 2014
François Thiébaud, the boss of Tissot since 1996, is beaming. And he has good reason to, it seems, since the Swatch Group’s mid-range brand sold around four (…)
The SWATCH GROUP has all bases covered
March 2014
Despite the apparent slowdown in consumption in China and the continued strength of the Swiss franc, the Swatch Group continues to go from strength to (…)
SWATCH GROUP - GLASHÜTTE ORIGINAL at the Berlinale
March 2014
For the past four years, Glashütte Original has been an official sponsor of the Berlinale, the major film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. “We are (…)
SWATCH GROUP - Stripping down the SISTEM51
March 2014
The Sistem51 owes its name to the number of components in its self-winding movement. The most astonishing characteristic is that, among these 51 components, (…)
SWATCH GROUP - Interview with ELMAR MOCK
March 2014
Europa Star had the chance to talk to Elmar Mock, one of the inventors of the original Swatch, who is now one of the managing partners of the Creaholic (…)