Gerald Roden is a consultant, watch industry specialist, and former director of Swiss Festina Group (Soprod ), de Grisogono, Gérald Genta, and Daniel Roth

Ladies’ watch straps are fed up of playing the weaker sex. They’re back with a vengeance, and with designs, materials and concepts – that have potentially (…)

While all eyes are usually on the dial, the least-considered component of a watch is a crucial part of the timepiece and can call for no fewer than 80 (…)

Twelve strap makers and bracelet manufacturers under focus, from A to Z: Corium, Fleurus, Hirsch, Kuki, Lic, Morellato, Promotion, Protexpo, Salin, Sibra, (…)

They are the watchmakers in the shadows, making the watches that bear the logos of others. Europa Star met with the principal players in Switzerland’s (…)

All crises are revelatory and speed up or crystallise – in the chemical meaning of the term – an embryonic situation. This is particularly true of the key (…)

All crises are revelatory and speed up or crystallise – in the chemical meaning of the term – an embryonic situation. This is particularly true of the key (…)

The fashion for vintage which has boomed over the course of the past decade concerns not only watches – far from it. Vintage is everywhere, in cars, (…)

On September 21, 2015 the world of Dick Tracy and James Bond became reality: the Apple Watch was born.

With a population of 80 million and a GDP of more than 400 billion dollars, as sanctions are gradually lifted an economic giant is joining the international (…)

Massoud Zomorrodian, today aged 76, is one of Iran’s longest-standing watch importers. His father and grandfather were watch merchants before him, and the (…)