Created in 1850 in Saint-Imier by the Didisheim brothers, Marvin has had its share of the limelight, particularly in the 1950s, when it employed up to 350 (…)

On 23 October 2014, a rare example of the Celsius LeDIX portable phone went up for auction by Maître Dufrèche in Besançon (France). “After a frenzied (…)

Leadership. It is perhaps one of the most-important yet least-discussed aspects of luxury brand management. Corporate culture has long been cited as a (…)

Europa Star recently spent some time with Julie Laulusa, an astute and knowledgeable executive from the Mazars consulting group. She shed some light on the (…)

The Bartorellis, retailers in Italy since the 19th century, have adopted an original but successful strategy: they have opted out of the urban centres to (…)

The issue of after-sales service is more relevant than ever. Each year, almost 30 million Swiss watches – including around 6 million mechanical watches – (…)

On the first day of the SIHH I managed to find a vacant table just prior to the lunchtime scrum and settled down with a newspaper to read about the really (…)

The year 2014 came to a close in a more difficult context for the Swiss watch industry, however exports by the sector continued to grow. The annual result (…)

Twenty-three million, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand Swiss francs: that’s the figure on everyone’s lips, the price of the famous Patek Philippe Henry (…)

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The Grandmaster Chime is not the only timepiece of note launched by the Genevan manufacture on its 175th anniversary. Here is a selection of new watches (…)

The dark and the light. Man has defined them as ‘evil’ and ‘good’. Remember how the bad cowboy always wore black and the good guy white? Black has often (…)