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Minutes + Hours - Watches, collectors and horsepower converge in Los Angeles

August 2026

The 2026 edition of Minutes + Hours Los Angeles welcomed a record audience to Manhattan Beach, bringing together more than 70 watch brands alongside (…)

“Certina has what it takes to become a global brand”

August 2026

Appointed to lead Certina last year after a long career in the watch industry, Dieter Pachner has taken the helm of a company with more than 135 years of (…)

Alpa, where watchmaking and photography converge

August 2026

On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, the highly exclusive Swiss technical camera manufacturer Alpa is bringing to light a little-known watchmaking (…)

Ateliers du Jura: a platform for local craftsmanship and innovation

August 2026

Everyone knows Swiza Swiss knives. Far fewer people know the company behind the brand. Until recently, it was called Helvetica Brands SA. It has now become (…)

Vanessa Barragão, textile artist: “Creating with our hands is essential to our mental health”

August 2026

Vanessa Barragão is a textile artist unlike any other. Now based in her native Algarve and surrounded by members of her family, she designs and (…)

Birth of an icon: Bvlgari’s Serpenti

August 2026

Animal symbols sit at the heart of the marketing strategies of many luxury brands. They convey a house’s values and, over time, can become iconic (…)

With THMG, François-Henri Bennahmias wants to build “a new kind of company”

August 2026

When François-Henri Bennahmias, watchmaking’s enfant terrible and the man who transformed Audemars Piguet into a powerhouse generating more than CHF 2 (…)

Alexandre Beauregard: shaping stones, crafting watches

August 2026

Alexandre Beauregard is a happy man. For the past decade, the Quebec-based lapidary artist has been pursuing an unlikely dream: creating singular watches at (…)

“ROLEX 1961-2025” Timeline - Watches - Movements - Ads - Patents - Documents

BIWI: a family portrait of an industrial champion

August 2026

Family-owned and independent for three generations, BIWI is a specialist in the development of innovative materials and a well-known name in the watch (…)

Inside Delft’s watchmaking arsenal: the Holthinrichs story

August 2026

Michiel Holthinrichs has a passion for ruined castles, Brutalist architecture and Peugeot 504s. From this unlikely combination emerged one of independent (…)

PARVIS brings artistic crafts out of the shadows

August 2026

Artistic crafts lie at the heart of Swiss haute horlogerie’s identity, yet the artisans who practise them often remain behind the scenes. Initiated by (…)

Panerai announces the “Immersion” exhibition in Florence

August 2026

In 2026, Panerai marks 100 years of its historic Florence boutique in Piazza San Giovanni with “Immersion,” a new exhibition that offers a contemporary (…)

Six conversations with modern watchmaking’s unsung heroes

August 2026

The artistic crafts are enjoying a resurgence of interest that goes beyond specialist circles. There is, it seems, no end to the unique pieces and special (…)

Art mechanics: a conversation in Sainte-Croix

August 2026

Europa Star sat down with nine figures from Sainte-Croix, a town we can legitimately call the “capital of art mechanics”. Enshrined by UNESCO, this living (…)

Art in Time opens in Tokyo

August 2026

Seven years after Monaco, Art in Time opens in Tokyo Ginza. Just like in Monte Carlo, this new watchmaking gallery features several independent artisan (…)

Musée de la Mécanique d’Art et du Patrimoine in Sainte-Croix: a legacy in motion

August 2026

The Musée de la Mécanique d’Art et du Patrimoine (MUMAPS) in Sainte-Croix is not a mausoleum where the past slowly sediments. It is a place that bears (…)

Mec-Art: the past, present and future of art mechanics

August 2026

Sainte-Croix is unique. Nowhere else in the world is such a small area home to every one of the skills that make up art mechanics — a fact on which Mec-Art (…)

François Junod, mechanical enchanter

August 2026

To say that François Junod has breathed new life into the art of the automaton would be an understatement. This remarkable craft was slowly dying, judged (…)

Geneva Watch Days 7th Edition: 2–6 September 2026

August 2026

68 brands showcasing the beauty, diversity, ingenuity and creativity of timeless fine watchmaking, gathered in Geneva. An edition supported by the entire (…)

Nomos Glashütte opens a new lounge in Shanghai

August 2026

Following a successful opening evening in Shanghai, Nomos Glashütte is now welcoming guests to a new space for personal appointments, product discovery, and (…)

Kikuo Ibe: “My dream is to send G-Shock to space”

August 2026

In the historic residence of Casio co-founder Toshio Kashio, now a museum tucked away in a quiet residential district of Tokyo, Kikuo Ibe reflects on more (…)

“Grossmann200” – Monument to a pioneer of the Glashütte watch industry

August 2026

A new special exhibition at the German Watch Museum Glashütte focuses on Moritz Grossmann as a person in more detail than ever before and shows that he was (…)

Zinedine Zidane’s first ever watch to go under the hammer in support of ELA

August 2026

ELA International (European Leukodystrophies Association) is announcing the auction of Zinedine Zidane’s first personal watch, a Cartier Pasha model, during (…)

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Minutes + Hours - Watches, collectors and horsepower converge in Los Angeles

“Certina has what it takes to become a global brand”

Alpa, where watchmaking and photography converge

Ateliers du Jura: a platform for local craftsmanship and innovation

Vanessa Barragão, textile artist: “Creating with our hands is essential to our mental health”

Birth of an icon: Bvlgari’s Serpenti

With THMG, François-Henri Bennahmias wants to build “a new kind of company”

Alexandre Beauregard: shaping stones, crafting watches

“ROLEX 1961-2025” Timeline - Watches - Movements - Ads - Patents - Documents

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BIWI: a family portrait of an industrial champion

Inside Delft’s watchmaking arsenal: the Holthinrichs story

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Six conversations with modern watchmaking’s unsung heroes

Art mechanics: a conversation in Sainte-Croix

Art in Time opens in Tokyo

Musée de la Mécanique d’Art et du Patrimoine in Sainte-Croix: a legacy in motion

Mec-Art: the past, present and future of art mechanics

François Junod, mechanical enchanter

Geneva Watch Days 7th Edition: 2–6 September 2026

Nomos Glashütte opens a new lounge in Shanghai

Kikuo Ibe: “My dream is to send G-Shock to space”

“Grossmann200” – Monument to a pioneer of the Glashütte watch industry

Zinedine Zidane’s first ever watch to go under the hammer in support of ELA