MID-RANGE - EMILE CHOURIET, a new manufacture on the horizon?
March 2014
Emile Chouriet, owned by Fiyta of China (which produces close to a million watches per year), presents a talking piece as the standard-bearer for its 2014 (…)
MID-RANGE - Football to fuel ROTARY’s global expansion
March 2014
Hublot may have been the first watch brand to partner with a football club but the landscape has since changed with the Swiss brand substituted as the (…)
MIDE-RANGE - FOLLI FOLLIE - Creating and housing fashion
March 2014
The Athens-based Folli Follie Group operates in more than 28 countries and has a portfolio of brands that accompany a customer through all life phases. (…)
INDEPENDENTS - ARMAND NICOLET – Traditional Swiss watchmaking meets Italian design
March 2014
Armand Nicolet traces its origins back to 1875, when a certain Armand Nicolet, the son of a watchmaker, set up his own workshop in Tramelan in the Swiss (…)
INDEPENDENTS - AUGUSTE REYMOND, the discreet brand with a beneficent edge
March 2014
The small family-owned and independent brand Auguste Reymond, based in the village of Tramelan in the Swiss Jura, has been in operation for over 100 years. (…)
INDEPENDENT BRANDS - RUDIS SYLVA
March 2014
In 2009 at BaselWorld, Rudis Sylva, headed up by Jacky Epitaux, presented a genuine “horological revolution” with its Harmonious Oscillator, “the only (…)
INDEPENDENT BRANDS - MANUFACTURE ROYALE
March 2014
David Gouten, Marc Guten, Gérard Gouten and Alexis Gouten, all members of the same family and all well known in the watchmaking community (both as (…)
THE JAPANESE RACE for absolute precision
March 2014
It is almost as if the three big Japanese brands – Seiko, Citizen and Casio – had passed the word around: 2014 will be the year of the GPS watch, capable of (…)
JAPAN - New design for the SEIKO ASTRON GPS SOLAR
March 2014
Last year Seiko presented its Astron GPS solar at BaselWorld. This watch could automatically adjust to any of the different time zones around our planet. (…)
JAPAN - Thinner, lighter, faster… The new CITIZEN ECO-DRIVE SATELLITE WAVE F100
March 2014
Citizen’s Eco-Drive Satellite Wave, launched in 2011 as a concept watch, was the brand’s first light-powered watch capable of synchronising with GPS (…)
CASIO - Japan
“SYNCHRONIZED TIMEPIECES”
March 2014
The main theme chosen by Casio for BaselWorld 2014 was “Synchronized Timepieces”. It is best seen in two watches, a new double-synchronized G-Shock and an (…)
NEWCOMER - BARBOUR: From the waxed jacket to the wrist
March 2014
With two iconic garments as a foundation, Barbour has grown into a genuine lifestyle brand, adding a range of shirts, footwear and accessories to its (…)
