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China's sphere of interest: Europa Star's Hong Kong show report

China’s sphere of interest: Europa Star’s Hong Kong show report

After a long night flight from Geneva to Hong Kong, via London, I arrived in the HKG International Airport and familiar faces welcomed me – watches from (...)

Hautlence, at a strategic turning point

Hautlence, at a strategic turning point

Guillaume Tetu, now the only captain aboard the Hautlence “ship” has always put his cards squarely on the table. After the rough seas of the economic crisis (...)

Blacksand readies for take-off

Blacksand readies for take-off

Freed from the constraints of the family firm, Alain Mouawad launches a new brand with a focus on the minutest attention to detail in a design that adds a (...)

Bedat & Co's first ladies' chronograph

Bedat & Co’s first ladies’ chronograph

Bedat & Co. cleverly bypass the need to name their collections by using numbers for them. This has the advantage of making them easily memorable in any (...)

The even more remarkable return of Tudor

The even more remarkable return of Tudor

Starting in 2009, Tudor, whose name was registered in 1926, but whose real birth took place in 1946, has been strongly repositioned. This repositioning (...)

Emile Chouriet is a family firm with a difference

Emile Chouriet is a family firm with a difference

Jean Depéry comes from a family which can trace its history in watchmaking back to the 1700s, yet he chose the name of one of his ancestors’ customers, Emile (...)

Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier proposes two new basic movements

Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier proposes two new basic movements

Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier—which belongs to the Sandoz Family Foundation and which has grown at the sides of Parmigiani for which it is the main (...)

Ulysse Nardin, the credo of innovation and independence

Ulysse Nardin, the credo of innovation and independence

Following the death of Rolf Schnyder, its president and CEO, the Ulysse Nardin manufacture is continuing along the path of independence and innovation. (...)

Louis Erard's very competitive neo-classic offer

Louis Erard’s very competitive neo-classic offer

When in 2003 at the head of a group of investors, Alain Spinedi (ex-Sector, ex-Swatch) took over the reins at the Louis Erard brand (founded in 1931), he (...)

Kari Voutilainen, happy watchmaker, happy man

Kari Voutilainen, happy watchmaker, happy man

In 2009, we described the ateliers of Voutilainen, in Môtiers in the Val de Travers, as a ‘one-man manufacture’. It was a way of saying how the Finnish (...)

When François-Paul Journe goes sporty

When François-Paul Journe goes sporty

Until now, François-Paul Journe has never made a sports watch. “For the pure and simple reason that I don’t do sports,” he explains (...)

Laurent Ferrier, the right watch at the right time

Laurent Ferrier, the right watch at the right time

Any watchmaker worthy of the name must obviously master the ‘hidden springs’ of time, or in other words, the mechanical measurement of time. A question of (...)

Jaeger-LeCoultre Special - Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

Jaeger-LeCoultre Special - Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

Jaeger-LeCoultre Special - Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire 40.5 - The classicism of round watches - Rendez-Vous - Grande Reverso Lady - Grande Reverso - Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea (...)

Jaeger-LeCoultre – Reverso The high-precision path from icon to cult-object

Jaeger-LeCoultre – Reverso The high-precision path from icon to cult-object

Reverso

When César de Trey and Jacques-David LeCoultre presented the Reverso watch in 1931, did they have any idea that they had given birth to one of the very few (...)

The Beijing watch factory

The Beijing watch factory

In the remote neighbourhood of Changping in Beijing, time stands still; strollers have not given way to taxi lanes and the shadow of Mao still looms heavy. (...)

The Reverso, unique for 80 years

The Reverso, unique for 80 years

1931: Thomas Edison passed away, the Empire State Building in New York was finally finished (at a cost of $40 million), Al Capone was sentenced to 17 years (...)

The ‘concepts' that are taking off - Harry Winston

The ‘concepts’ that are taking off - Harry Winston [Video]

The economic crisis has not killed the need for the ‘concept watch’, in fact, perhaps, just the contrary. Research is and remains more than ever the domain (...)

Perrelet previews moonbeams and tourbillons

Perrelet previews moonbeams and tourbillons

After the success of the Turbine and Diamond Flower, Perrelet is launching two new collections in the run up to BaselWorld (...)

Mondaine Simply Elegant, Giant and Savonette

Mondaine Simply Elegant, Giant and Savonette

One of the biggest trends in the watch industry right now is towards more traditional, classical designs, inevitably simpler, slightly smaller and (...)

DeWitt, luxurious neo-classic niche

DeWitt, luxurious neo-classic niche

The first watches bearing the DeWitt signature appeared at the end of 2003, more than seven years ago. When we look at the road the brand has travelled in (...)