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Watch Angels: a watch incubator is born
INDUSTRY
January 2021
We are witnessing the emergence of a new category in the watch industry. The “incubation workshop” is neither licensing nor crowdfunding; it takes (...)
MicroLean Lab: an industrial breakthrough
INNOVATION
December 2020
MicroLean Lab, part of HE-Arc Ingénierie, based at St- Imier in the Jura Arc, is in the process of designing a genuine micro-factory that will fit into one (...)
A 100% digital edition of Watches & Wonders in 2021
SHOWS & FAIRS
November 2020
In the light of uncertainty amid the current health crisis, the Watches and Wonders Geneva Exhibitor Committee has taken the decision not to hold the (...)
Watches will have their own biometric passports
INNOVATION
November 2020
To replace the traditional authenticity papers, Origyn, a new Swiss foundation, is offering biometric recognition of watches by means of a simple (...)
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Jacob & Co. The Astronomia Art Phoenix
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS EXTRAVAGANCE
October 2020
You have to actually handle this incredible timepiece at least once to fully appreciate its absolute extravagance.
Bovet 1822: The Brainstorm Chapter Two
WHEN INNOVATION IS A STAGE
October 2020
Back in 2016, Bovet introduced into their collections a highly innovative, asymmetric case in the shape of an antique writing slope. Here comes a new (...)
Citizen Super Titanium
TM
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS MATERIALS
October 2020
As illustrated on the cover of the lastest edition of Europa Star, in 2020 Citizen is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first titanium (...)
Mauron Musy: a new sealing technology
WHEN INNOVATION IS WATER-RESISTANCE
October 2020
Born as a spin-off of a Swiss sub-contractor specialising in exteriors and precision machining for watchmakers, Mauron Musy has built its reputation as (...)
Romain Gauthier: The Insight Micro-Rotor Squelette
WHEN INNOVATION IS DECORATION
October 2020
Exactly 350 hours of anglage and polishing per watch. Or, as one of the anglage specialists at Romain Gauthier puts it, “a genuine test of mental strength. (...)
Girard-Perregaux: The Cosmos Infinity
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS TWO GLOBES
October 2020
A solar day contains 24 hours. A sidereal day, the exact measurement of celestial time, lasts 23 hours and 56 minutes. To do full justice to this minute (...)
Urwerk: the UR-100
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS SPACE-TIME
October 2020
Let’s stay in space with the UR-100, the “fourth episode in the intergalactic saga of the 100 collection”, as Martin Frei, co-founder of Urwerk, in-house (...)
Louis Moinet: The Space Revolution
WHEN INNOVATION IS SCIENCE FICTION
October 2020
We already knew that Jean-Marie Schaller, the CEO of Louis Moinet – named after the astronomercum- watchmaker who had more or less fallen into oblivion – (...)
De Bethune: the DB28 Steel Wheels Sapphire Tourbillon
WHEN INNOVATION IS TRANSPARENCY AND LIGHTNESS
October 2020
Denis Flageollet, the founder and master watchmaker at De Bethune, has always said he takes his inspiration from classic, high-end horology while (...)
Bernhard Lederer’s Central Impulse Chronometer
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS TWO ESCAPE WHEELS
October 2020
We might as well say it straight out: it is absolutely impossible to sum up here every feature that constitutes the huge originality of the calibre 9012, (...)
Ferdinand Berthoud: the Chronomètre FB 2RE
WHEN INNOVATION MEANS COMBINATION
October 2020
The Chronomètre FB 2RE, the architecture and modular case of which are directly inspired by the Marine No. 6 clock built by the great horologist Ferdinand (...)
Greubel Forsey Balancier S
INNOVATION IN INCLINATION
October 2020
A large balance wheel measuring 12.6mm, set at 7 o’clock and inclined at an astonishing angle, immediately catches the eye. Is it inclined for purely (...)
F.P.Journe: 20 years of Resonance
FROM THE THEORY TO THE WRIST
October 2020
The most state-of-the-art innovations sometimes have roots reaching way back to previous centuries. Such is the case of the horological application of (...)
A fragile fabric
EDITORIAL
October 2020
When the fabric of a dress dries out, it is weakened, unravels and tears, becomes shapeless and rapidly falls apart.
Grand Seiko’s chronometric quest
INNOVATION AS A CONSTANT FORCE
October 2020
To widespread surprise, in September Grand Seiko presented a wholly unprecedented concept movement, the T0 (T-Zero) Constant-force Tourbillon. Its (...)
The lesson of Rolex
WHEN INNOVATION IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS
October 2020
In watchmaking circles, people tend to mock Rolex fans who buzz with excitement on social media because the brand with the crown logo has made some (...)
In the white rooms of CSEM
INNOVATION REPORT
October 2020
In the early 1980s, at the height of the crisis affecting the Swiss watch sector, three separate institutes funded by the Swiss state and large watchmaking (...)
Instant-Lab (EPFL): Breaking the second barrier
INNOVATION
October 2020
It is sometimes said that, as far as mechanical watch movements are concerned, everything, or nearly everything, has already been achieved. So is (...)
Innovating in times of crisis
EDITORIAL
September 2020
Innovations are perhaps were we need to look, if we are to overcome the major challenges of our time. In our latest report we identify some of the major (...)
Tissot: connection without disruption
STRATEGY
September 2020
It will be new CEO Sylvain Dolla’s first major project. Tissot’s connected watch, the T-Touch Connect Solar, has been eagerly awaited, as the new market (...)