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The watch industry in 2009: a decline of 15 to 20 percent!
January 2009
The watch industry is going to lose ground. This is now certain. It will decline in terms of both value and volume. It will shrink for everyone, but (...)
Inside the bubble...
November 2008
One of the things to be expected (among others) about economic crises is that the abundant commentaries they incite are discredited nearly as soon as they (...)
Long live the watch industry holiday!
August 2008
The watch industry in Switzerland is perhaps one of the only industries in the world to draw the curtain shut and stop production for three weeks every (...)
The empires, kingdoms, and knights of the watch table
June 2008
The great empires and kingdoms that make up the largest slice of the proverbial watchmaking pie (Swatch Group, Richemont, LVMH, Rolex, (...)
The large watchmaking casino
June 2008
If we returned home from the spring watch fairs with less weight in our luggage than in previous years, it is not at all because there were less (...)
Are we approaching the end of the bling era?
April 2008
The question of luxury and its corre-lation—supposed or real—with decadence is an age-old philosophical and historical debate. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, for (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2007/2008 - Effervescent exhilaration
April 2008
It continues. . . It continues to rise, unflappable, with no let up in sight. Every month, watches worth more than a billion (yes, with a (...)
Watchmaking with no taboos
February 2008
Recently, at the Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie in Geneva, one of the awards was not given out. According to the event’s organizers, the ‘prize (...)
Strategic auctions
January 2008
We won’t go into detail, in this column, about the dramatic shockwaves travelling through the world of watch auctions. We are not looking to weigh (...)
History never ends
October 2007
We remember that, a few years ago, an American essayist, Francis Fukuyama, predicted the ‘end of history’. In his opinion, the fall of (...)
Let’s talk a little about ‘us’...
September 2007
In a departure from what is customary, let’s speak a little bit about us! ‘Us’ is not only Europa Star, but ‘us’ refers also to the overall watch media (...)
The paradox of 80 percent Swiss Made
July 2007
The great debate, which, under press-ure from the barons of timekeeping, has just begun regarding a reformed definition of ‘Swiss Made’ leading (...)
Horological machines
April 2007
Where does our never-ending fascination for ‘machines’ come from? This attraction holds true for all machines, large and small, locomotives or (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2006/2007 - Watchmaking runs the risk of excess
April 2007
What a glorious year! Do we even need to repeat the numbers, proclaimed loud and clear just about everywhere?
Eighty years of service for the watchmaking of tomorrow
March 2007
This year represents the 80th anniversary of Europa Star, and we still have ‘all of our teeth’ as they say. Yes, 80 years ago, the foundations of (...)
The heart-warming story of Europa Star
100% SWISS MADE BY SWISS MAIDS?
February 2007
The Swiss Made label in watchmaking has been the source of all sorts of uses and abuses.
The mechanical and financial heart of watchmaking
January 2007
In a recent book of interviews with the journalist Friedemann Bartu ‘Au-delà de la saga Swatch’ Nicolas Hayek laid a few cards on the table concerning (...)
Intellectual property is not a universal concept
November 2006
About ten years ago, counterfeit products primarily affected only the luxury goods industry. Today, fakes are seen in all (...)
Bubbles
August 2006
We know the famous story of the first economic ‘bubble’, in which the irrational mixed with speculation, but there was also the celebrated tulip (...)
My time against yours
March 2006
A conceptual American artist, Jonathon Keats, has just opened his own ‘Bureau of Standards’. He offers every person a personalized ‘conversion table’ (...)