In our survey of various retailers from around the world in this issue, several include Hublot in their “must-see” brands at BaselWorld.

German watch brand Junghans opened its first store in China in February at the five-star Jin Jiang Hotel in Taicang, 48 kilometres northwest of Shanghai. In (…)

The development of the watchmaking industry in the small village of Fleurier is in no small part due to the work of Edouard Bovet and his brothers, who from (…)

Eva Leube can claim to be Australia’s first bespoke watchmaker but she certainly enjoys a special honour as she appears to be the first to have arrived of (…)

Tamdi Chonge, together with his wife Ursula, took over the Epos watch factory in 2002 from Peter Hofer, who had originally established the brand in 1983.

For many Swiss watch companies, China has been the strongest market. It seems strange that the Chinese have embraced fine Swiss watches, while relatively (…)

After 156 years of being a Swiss company, Eterna has passed into Chinese hands. Symbolically, this is quite significant not only because Eterna is a true (…)

Everyone who comes to Basel this year will be surprised to find a completely transformed Messeplatz. A large building hangs as if suspended in mid-air above (…)

Just before Christmas I received an email entitled ‘An Invisible Wristwatch’. Presuming that it was some sort of shaggy dog story, I placed it in my ‘Jokes’ (…)

AAA. It is the word of the year. Or, at least, the three most coveted letters of the moment. Well, there are the AAAs and then there are others. Those that (…)

Contrary to many other watch brands, which—having hardly hatched from the egg—loudly proclaim that they have produced their “in-house calibre” in record (…)

The visionary founder of Rolex, Hans Wilsdorf, was an early pioneer in watch marketing. Barely had he succeeded in producing the world’s first (…)