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US Exclusive: Hautlence broadens its range while staying true to itself

US Exclusive: Hautlence broadens its range while staying true to itself

With the new Avant Garde HLRS, just introduced in October 2012, Hautlence has broadened its range, while at the same time remained true to its mission. The (...)

Focus on Latin America – Background and challenges

Focus on Latin America – Background and challenges

What is unique about the watch market in Latin America? In terms of tastes and trends, there is as much variety as there is in the region’s watch industry (...)

Focus on Latin America – Interview with Carlos Alonso

Focus on Latin America – Interview with Carlos Alonso

A few days before the 6th SIAR (Salón de la Alta Relojería) fine watch fair in Mexico City, Director Carlos Alonso made time in his schedule to answer a few (...)

Louis Erard: Quartz goes to the aid of the mechanical watch

Louis Erard: Quartz goes to the aid of the mechanical watch

In 2009, during the full “subprime crisis”, which saw sales of the struggling Swiss watch industry fall some 25 per cent, Alain Spinedi, owner of Louis (...)

One-on-One with Maurice Goldberger

One-on-One with Maurice Goldberger

The last time you heard about Maurice Goldberger, Europa Star was grilling him on the secondary, parallel and grey markets. Now, Goldberger, the president (...)

“We call Eterna ‘Sleeping Beauty'”

“We call Eterna ‘Sleeping Beauty’”

At the Shenzhen Watch Fair, Jianguang Shang, CEO of China Haidian, talked about the holding, its two Chinese brands and his ambitions for its new Swiss (...)

Web exclusive: The ID TWO concept watch by Cartier

Web exclusive: The ID TWO concept watch by Cartier

If you want an idea of what the watch of the future might look like, then Cartier’s new ID TWO concept watch is a good place to start. The brand approached (...)

Ulysse Nardin, an exemplary transition

Ulysse Nardin, an exemplary transition

How can one follow the charismatic Rolf Schnyder, emblematic head of Ulysse Nardin, who passed away suddenly in April 2011? How can one follow this (...)

Louis Vuitton, a voyage to watchmaking credibility

Louis Vuitton, a voyage to watchmaking credibility

It has been ten years now that the luxury leather goods brand, Louis Vuitton, has been active in the world of watchmaking. With its famous leather luggage, (...)

The price of a tourbillon

The price of a tourbillon

Anyone who looks at a tourbillon will be drawn in and fascinated by the cage of the timepiece, which typically holds the escapement wheel, the escapement (...)

The Duomètre Sphérotourbillon by Jaeger-LeCoultre, the ultimate watch and an inaugural timepiece

The Duomètre Sphérotourbillon by Jaeger-LeCoultre, the ultimate watch and an inaugural timepiece

August - September 2012

The last few years have seen a great increase in the research conducted on a variety of watchmaking topics, from the introduction of new regulation and (...)

ORIENT - Pursuing The Value of Mechanical Watches

ORIENT - Pursuing The Value of Mechanical Watches

ORIENT WATCH CO., LTD is positioning its ORIENT STAR collection at the heart of its expansion strategy, especially in its domestic Japanese (...)

Welcome to Europa Star World of Watches

Welcome to Europa Star World of Watches

Europa Star would like to welcome all international watch brand retailers, distributors, manufacturers and watch aficionados to its websites and (...)

KUKI - A Family Company with an Innovative Tradition

KUKI - A Family Company with an Innovative Tradition

The KUKI company from Slovenia, an EU member state, has been making leather watch straps since 1963. A family tradition of 50 years has ranked KUKI among (...)

DeWitt, when the emotion comes from the quality

DeWitt, when the emotion comes from the quality

June - July 2012

“The only rational aspect of luxury is quality,” as Jérôme de Witt likes to say. “For the rest, it is only the irrational, the emotional, the (...)

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New (and nearly new) brands at BaselWorld

New (and nearly new) brands at BaselWorld

The explosive growth experienced by the watch industry last year means that new brands continue to spring up like mushrooms and the imposing construction (...)

New creative impulses in ladies' watch design

New creative impulses in ladies’ watch design

There was certainly no shortage in the creativity applied to new ladies’ watch designs at BaselWorld this year, which include the use of new materials, new (...)

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 1

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 1

Reminiscences of a BaselWorld that left me somewhat bemused, a little frustrated and, for some inexplicable reason, dissatisfied. Naturally, there were (...)

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 2

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 2

Mechanical marvels – Breitling, Bell & Ross, Maurice Lacroix