110 Years of Dubois Dépraz
November 2011
For those who need to know, Dubois Dépraz is famous, a complications manufacturer of extremely high quality, working with some of the best brand names in (…)
Harry Winston celebrates grand opening of newest salon in Dubai
November 2011
Harry Winston, the legendary jeweller to the stars and international luxury brand, celebrated the opening of its first salon in Dubai along with Ahmed (…)
First Dutch jeweller with an mCommerce website
November 2011
Physical stores, website with e-commerce functionalities and now also a mobile website with m-commerce. The Amsterdam-based Ace Jewelers was the first (…)
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 1881 Heritage Boutique in Hong Kong
Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils exceptional “Proto Zero” models in support of Hong Kong’s “End Child Sexual Abuse” Foundation
November 2011
Located at one of the most prestigious luxury hubs of Asia, the 1881 Heritage boutique is the third Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique in Hong Kong. It is also the (…)
The Original from Glashütte
October 2011
If you believe that fine watches necessarily need to come from Switzerland, then you are mistaken. The small hamlet of Glashütte near Dresden in eastern (…)
Adieu old friend – Remembering Michael Balfour
October 2011
You don’t invent people like Michael Balfour. He was an original, the incarnate of how the non-English see a slightly eccentric Englishman – although his (…)
Tutima’s “hommage” as a symbol of its new ambitions
October 2011
The Tutima brand has just presented the first totally German-made minute repeater, and never before realised in the city of Glashütte, where it recently (…)
King Fook, Hong Kong
October 2011
Hong Kong has become Swiss Watch central, a shopping paradise for watch lovers. While covering the Hong Kong Watch and Clock Fair for Europa Star, I visited (…)
The first Patek Philippe watch with a regulator dial
October 2011
Patek Philippe recently presented a new timepiece, never before featured by the Geneva manufacture—a “regulator” type dial that also includes an annual (…)
Swiss watches in the Chinese mirror
October 2011
“What is the biggest challenge facing the watch industry today? The focus of the brands is on the Chinese customer right now, but there is no way to know (…)
Glashütte, cradle of German haute horlogerie
October 2011
On the borders of Switzerland, Germany has always been a great watchmaking nation. It has two main areas—one in the southern part of the nation in the Black (…)
The Lange Akademie, getting to know the tree and its roots
October 2011
Every self-respecting brand seeks to train, as well as possible, their most influential “ambassadors”—those individuals who, by virtue of being in the (…)
