Watch exports reached a very high level in 2011, creating a new landmark in their remarkable growth over recent years. With exports of nearly 19.3 billion (…)

The Chinese are like big kids, always in a hurry to build the framework of what we might call “Modern China”. With more or less competency, they produce (…)

After considering themes such as “The watch user in a changing world” (2009) and “Watchmaking and its ambassadors” (2010), this year’s international watch (…)

Following on the success of Belles Montres in Paris, the organisers opened the first Belles Montres in Shanghai, China from October 26 - 30.

At the SIHH in Geneva today, Europa Star’s partner Digital Luxury Group published the results for the 15 haute horlogerie brands in its annual (…)

Roger Dubuis, now a part of the Richemont Group, as a brand and a movement manufacturer, is poised to be relaunched, with Georges Kern supervising the brand (…)

Well known for its world records in extremely thin watches, Piaget has done it again with the Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin.

The first thing that passers-by notice in MB&F’s new M.A.D. Gallery is “Palette”, who looks at first sight light a shop dummy. But anyone who walks in (…)

We all know well the activities of Parmigiani’s restoration workshops, since Michel Parmigiani himself passed by the great school of restoration, and is (…)

Montblanc is in the middle of celebrating the 190th anniversary of the chronograph this year and their SIHH previews continue this theme with three special (…)

In Shanghai attending Belles Montres Shanghai, I was fortunate to receive an invitation to tour the recently inaugurated Rolex Experience, located right in (…)

“If you’re trendy, you’re already too late,” says Alexandre Peraldi, Director of the Baume & Mercier Design Studio since 2001. The strictness of this (…)