With the completed installation of the Vaucher ‘manufacture’, its industrial pole, Michel Parmigiani has, as he likes to say, “the tools for (…)

On one side is a ‘master’ designer who only has eyes for Haute Horlogerie, and on the other side, a ‘master’ watchmaker who admires design.

The spirit of Breguet, the king of watchmakers and the watchmaker to kings, has returned for this year’s timely harvest, a large vintage crop of (…)

We all have a very precise internal biological clock, one that regulates our wake-sleep cycle that is exactly 24 hours and 30 minutes long. The (…)

“I arrived in Tokyo in 2000 with the idea that my watches would be well received by the Japanese,” explains the watchmaker with a half smile...

Last year, I wrote a Freely Speaking entitled ‘For God’s sake, stop winking in the dark’ in which I pleaded for more advertising in the magazine to (…)

The relationship between Hermès and Japan goes back a long way. Already in 1911, the Prince Kan-In, Comman-der in Chief of the Japanese (…)

Girard-Perregaux has been present in Japan since 1992. However, it was in 1998 that Gino Macaluso, a man with great experience in the domain of (…)

All the “purely watchmaking” brands belonging to the Richemont group, Cartier, Piaget, ..., IWC, Panerai and Baume & Mercier are (…)

The company’s watch sales increased 12% in Japan alone last year. What is the reason of this relative successı

Founded in 1877, a pioneer of modern watchmaking and the mechanical watch in Japan, Seiko is still owned by Hattori the founding family. As a (…)

One of the principal editors of the New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman, recently compared the Japanese economy to a person who finally is able to (…)