Out of the blue … came blu

Out of the blue … came blu

October 2004
“Time is something emotional, it is something to be enjoyed and not destroyed by hands fighting to show something or other. What I try to do is show (…)

A look at the latest from Italy

A look at the latest from Italy

September 2004
Anonimo, Bulgari, De Bethune, Daniel JeanRichard, Locman, Lorenz, Panerai, ...

Distribution in Italy

Distribution in Italy

September 2004
If there is one thing that is sure in the general consumer crisis affecting the watch sector in Italy today, it is, first of all, that the (…)

What the Italians like best

What the Italians like best

September 2004
Since we can admit that, in the Bel Paese, the passion and culture for timepieces are rather vague, it thus remains difficult to explain why a (…)

Italy a market in slow recovery

Italy a market in slow recovery

September 2004
Italy’s national data for 2003 indicate an overall decrease in watch sales (as is unfortunately the case for the world in general, but, according to (…)

Parmigiani: Tools for Perpetuity

Parmigiani: Tools for Perpetuity

September 2004
With the completed installation of the Vaucher ‘manufacture’, its industrial pole, Michel Parmigiani has, as he likes to say, “the tools for (…)

Marriage of a designer and a watchmaker

Marriage of a designer and a watchmaker

September 2004
On one side is a ‘master’ designer who only has eyes for Haute Horlogerie, and on the other side, a ‘master’ watchmaker who admires design.

The frenzy of the third dimension

The frenzy of the third dimension

August 2004
The spirit of Breguet, the king of watchmakers and the watchmaker to kings, has returned for this year’s timely harvest, a large vintage crop of (…)

Time… is astronomy transformed into biology

Time… is astronomy transformed into biology

August 2004
We all have a very precise internal biological clock, one that regulates our wake-sleep cycle that is exactly 24 hours and 30 minutes long. The (…)

F-P Journe in Japan: Listening to intuition!

F-P Journe in Japan: Listening to intuition!

August 2004
“I arrived in Tokyo in 2000 with the idea that my watches would be well received by the Japanese,” explains the watchmaker with a half smile...

LAKIN@LARGE - Archaeological research unearths hidden meanings

LAKIN@LARGE - Archaeological research unearths hidden meanings

August 2004
Last year, I wrote a Freely Speaking entitled ‘For God’s sake, stop winking in the dark’ in which I pleaded for more advertising in the magazine to (…)

The exemplary establishment of Hermès in Japan

The exemplary establishment of Hermès in Japan

August 2004
The relationship between Hermès and Japan goes back a long way. Already in 1911, the Prince Kan-In, Comman-der in Chief of the Japanese (…)