Baume & Mercier's seaside odyssey continues

Baume & Mercier’s seaside odyssey continues

January 2013
Baume & Mercier has changed a lot over the past few years. While the brand’s outward identity is now characterised by the appealing seaside escape (…)

An updated look at the Chinese luxury watch market in 2012

An updated look at the Chinese luxury watch market in 2012

January 2013
The topic of weakening luxury sales in China has been much discussed for some time now. Adding to that the politically sensitive period of the government (…)

Swatch Group Gross Sales: a Billion more than the Previous Year

Swatch Group Gross Sales: a Billion more than the Previous Year

January 2013
In 2012, the Swatch Group generated gross sales of CHF8143 million and, as a result, exceeded the previous year’s gross sales by a billion or +14.0%. Again (…)

Greubel Forsey – Microscopic art

Greubel Forsey – Microscopic art

January 2013
Willard Wigan is a well-known artist, honoured by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 as a “Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” for his (…)

Inauguration of the Richard Mille boutique in Singapore

Inauguration of the Richard Mille boutique in Singapore

January 2013
The new Richard Mille Singapore boutique was inaugurated on 14th December at Grand Hyatt Hotel on Orchard Road. It is one of the brand’s largest showrooms, (…)

Girard-Perregaux – Paying tribute to Le Corbusier

Girard-Perregaux – Paying tribute to Le Corbusier

January 2013
Before taking over Girard-Perregaux, the late Gino Macaluso studied architecture. Obsessed his entire life by an art that had always inspired him, Macaluso (…)

The cultural track – a discussion with Franco Cologni on the relationship between art and watchmaking

The cultural track – a discussion with Franco Cologni on the relationship between art and watchmaking

December 2012
“Guru of Haute Horlogerie”, “Cardinal of the Richemont Group”—the description of the role(s) played by Franco Cologni in the vast reorganisation of Swiss (…)

Mixed Signals on the Watch Front

Mixed Signals on the Watch Front

December 2012
Children are not the only ones who like to play at being scared. These days there are so many examples, in both film and literature, of post-apocalyptic (…)

Is watchmaking an art? A special Art & Watchmaking section

Is watchmaking an art? A special Art & Watchmaking section

December 2012
Is watchmaking an art? Is it the 12th Art, as was ceremoniously proclaimed during the last Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix?

“Audemars Piguet: infusing a new way of thinking”

“Audemars Piguet: infusing a new way of thinking”

December 2012
François-Henry Bennahmias, the new ad interim CEO of Audemars Piguet, may be young (48 years old), but he knows the brand by heart. Not surprising since he (…)

Service, please! – A new watch business section in Europa Star

Service, please! – A new watch business section in Europa Star

December 2012
In the world of watchmaking there is a continent, somewhat obscure, on which the media projectors rarely cast their light—much too rarely. What we are (…)

LAKIN@LARGE - The face of adversity

LAKIN@LARGE - The face of adversity

December 2012
I recently spent three weeks travelling across Canada, from Toronto to Vancouver and on to Salt Spring Island, yet despite the magnificence of places like (…)