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Rolex Awards for Enterprise Winners

Rolex Awards for Enterprise Winners [Video]

At a ceremony held at the Ecole Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne in Switzerland, five young entrepreneurs were awarded the first Rolex Awards for (...)

Milus CEO Jan Edöcs at Milus launch in Spain

Milus CEO Jan Edöcs at Milus launch in Spain

Milus and Berma Time hosted a Highly Personal event at a stunning venue in Madrid - the Palacio de Fernan Nuñez - to celebrate the arrival of the brand in (...)

Movements – French exception: The formidable Calibre Royal from Pequignet

Movements – French exception: The formidable Calibre Royal from Pequignet

The Calibre Royal, courageously initiated by Didier Leibundgut, the owner of Pequignet, is an automatic movement beating at 21,600 vibrations per hour. (...)

Tudor, a strong repositioning and a return to its roots

Tudor, a strong repositioning and a return to its roots

The birth of Tudor dates back to 1946 when Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex, officially launched the company Montres Tudor SA. The name itself goes back (...)

From AJS to Chevrolet

From AJS to Chevrolet

In 1998, André and Josette Saunier created AJS Productions. Today, installed in a new factory in Porrentruy, AJS has an impressive portfolio of 220 clients. (...)

Eberhard's new assets

Eberhard’s new assets

Since 1969, Eberhard has essentially been the province of one man—Palmiro Monti, when he became the major shareholder and took over managing the (...)

Tianjin Sea-Gull Watch

Tianjin Sea-Gull Watch

Located 30 minutes by fast train from Beijing, Tianjin is the oldest industrial city in China. Add another 30 minutes from the station by car and you will (...)

Postcard from San Diego – Training with the Navy SEALs

Postcard from San Diego – Training with the Navy SEALs

Perched on my knees at the edge of the airplane door, the plane at 14,000 feet, I watched the elite Navy SEAL ‘Leap Frog’ jump team soar through the thin (...)

Crystal clear

Crystal clear

Watch crystals are rarely referred to in the pages of Europa Star, except perhaps for the occasional mention in a watch caption, but the art of crafting (...)

Movements – Citizen takes the offensive with its launch of the first in a new series of automatic 9000 calibres

Movements – Citizen takes the offensive with its launch of the first in a new series of automatic 9000 calibres

Citizen’s recent offensive in the domain of the mechanical movement has, without a doubt, been motivated primarily by purely strategic Japanese (...)

Servicing mechanical watches - an opportunity to shine

Servicing mechanical watches - an opportunity to shine

Lately, there has been some doom and gloom about the service aspect of the watch industry. Too many brands are doing a poor job of servicing watches - (...)

Rolex celebrates 50 years of underwater heritage

Rolex celebrates 50 years of underwater heritage [Video]

On the evening of January 23, 1960 as the setting sun turned the surface of the Pacific Ocean deep orange, Swiss oceanographer and engineer Jacques Piccard (...)

The very consistent Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire

The very consistent Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire

Exactitude, precision and chronometry are at the core of research in timekeeping carried out by Jaeger-LeCoultre. These words are not merely a marketing (...)

Soon a tourbillon watch for 1,500 Swiss francs

Soon a tourbillon watch for 1,500 Swiss francs

Recently, Europa Star went to visit the largest Chinese watchmaker, at least in terms of volume, since its Ebohr and Rossini brands account for 23 per cent (...)

Chanel's J12 comes out of the blue

Chanel’s J12 comes out of the blue [Video]

Every J12 is a surprise. First there was the ceramic J12, then a tourbillon version, followed by an haute joaillerie line, a GMT, a new ‘serious’ movement (...)

Beware of URWERK's Black Cobra's bite

Beware of URWERK’s Black Cobra’s bite

The latest generation of the UR-CC1 is the result of successful genetic manipulation.

Celsius X VI II – combining Haute Horlogerie and Mobile Telephony

Celsius X VI II – combining Haute Horlogerie and Mobile Telephony

Haute Horlogerie & Mobile Telephony

Forty years ago, when the quartz watch appeared for the first time in the marketplace, people thought that the age-old era of the mechanical (...)

First TITONI Artist Watch launched with a touch of Chinese Contemporary Art

First TITONI Artist Watch launched with a touch of Chinese Contemporary Art

“Return to the Aerosphere”

TITONI has launched its first Artist Watch in the presence of Mr. Zhang Qikai, the famous Chongqing-based painter and art critic. The solemn and joyful (...)

Vacheron Constantin, something timeless…

Vacheron Constantin, something timeless…

Founded in 1755, Vacheron Constantin has lived through many events during its age-old history—the French revolution, the Napoleonic era, the industrial (...)

The UR-103 is dead, long live URWERK

The UR-103 is dead, long live URWERK

The UR-103 is dead; long live Urwerk

To my knowledge, there is no other example of a watch brand that, after seven successful years, decides unilaterally to stop a collection that (...)