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Pequignet: Haute Horlogerie, the French way

Pequignet: Haute Horlogerie, the French way

Located just across the border, the brand has adopted the very strategies that have propelled watchmaking success for twenty years: integrated manufacture, (...)

Artya: “We test things; they may work, or they may fail, but we always push boundaries”

Artya: “We test things; they may work, or they may fail, but we always push boundaries”

The independent brand, founded in 2009, offers a rare case of intergenerational “appeasement”. The father, Yvan Arpa, epitomises an unconventional and (...)

Introducing Geneva Watch Days 6th Edition: September 4-7, 2025

Introducing Geneva Watch Days 6th Edition: September 4-7, 2025

The most refreshingly informal event on the watchmaking calendar returns from Thursday, September 4 to Sunday, September 7, 2025, charting a bold course (...)

Entries open for the 25th Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève

Entries open for the 25th Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève

Swiss and international watch brands are invited to submit entries across 15 competition categories via GPHG’s dedicated digital platform, which is open (...)

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Dubai Watch Week 2025 announces over 90 participating brands

Dubai Watch Week 2025 announces over 90 participating brands

The annual event returns this November for its 7th edition. Hosted at Dubai Mall, this year’s programme introduces new formats and on-site activations. The (...)

EPHJ: the nominees for the Grand Prix des Exposants 2025 unveiled

EPHJ: the nominees for the Grand Prix des Exposants 2025 unveiled

Invisible quantum tattooing to authenticate luxury watches (Quantum), coloration by nanoparticle grafting (Ugiel), form threading by ultra-fast polygoning (...)

Breguet reappropriates the subscription model for its 250th anniversary

Breguet reappropriates the subscription model for its 250th anniversary

Often imitated, never equalled. As the father of modern watchmaking, Abraham-Louis Breguet’s complications, distinctive codes, even his business models have (...)

LVMH and the relaunch of Daniel Roth

LVMH and the relaunch of Daniel Roth

GUEST COLUMN

L’usage d’une marque ayant un passé peut donner l’idée d’une réduction des risques. Elle véhicule également le message d’un retour aux sources. Parmi les nombreuses (...)

SIAR Summer reaches new heights in 2025

SIAR Summer reaches new heights in 2025

SIAR Summer returns for its fifth edition with record participation and an energy that confirms its standing as the must-attend summer event on Mexico’s (...)

Watchmaking, differently

Watchmaking, differently

References to heritage, continuity and innovation are omnipresent in watch brands’ communication, but for some of the newer names, other values are equally (...)

Bell & Ross: 20 years squaring the circle

Bell & Ross: 20 years squaring the circle

If watchmaking had a Daft Punk, it would be Bruno Belamich and Carlos Rosillo. They met as students, made their debut from Paris in the 1990s, (...)

Singer Reimagined, an uncompromising path

Singer Reimagined, an uncompromising path

If there is one word that can define the watch brand backed by an automotive specialist, it is ’coherence’ – in its style, its language, and its strategy. Yet (...)

Corum reclaims Swiss control in management buyout

Corum reclaims Swiss control in management buyout

The 70-year-old brand from La Chaux-de-Fonds has returned to Swiss ownership. The buyout was led by Haso Mehmedovic, 32, who began his career there 15 (...)

Interview with Richard Vaucher, new president of Arc Horloger

Interview with Richard Vaucher, new president of Arc Horloger

The organisation established to support UNESCO’s recognition of expertise in mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics has now become a formal association. (...)

HSNY awards record $160K in scholarships at annual gala

HSNY awards record $160K in scholarships at annual gala

The Horological Society of New York hosted this black-tie affair at The Plaza Hotel in March, uniting collectors, top brands, auction houses, and (...)

Christophe Hoppé, watchmaking as a lifestyle

Christophe Hoppé, watchmaking as a lifestyle

After honing his skills at Technomarine and later supplying watch hands, the entrepreneur left it all behind in 2010 to start a new life in Australia. Yet (...)

Caran d'Ache draws a line between generations

Caran d’Ache draws a line between generations

Headed by the fourth generation of the Hubscher family, the Geneva-based pencil and writing instrument manufacturer shares many traits with its watchmaking (...)

Dubois Dépraz: keep it in the family

Dubois Dépraz: keep it in the family

GENERATIONS

Dubois Dépraz is a family enterprise and an exception in a contemporary landscape which, in the company’s almost 125 years, has been significantly reshaped (...)

An afternoon with the Preziusos

An afternoon with the Preziusos

GENERATIONS

Antoine, the father, May, the mother, Laura, the daughter and Florian, the son. The watchmaking flame burns bright among the Preziuosos and has been passed (...)

Jean-Claude and Pierre Biver: “If youth knew, if age could”

Jean-Claude and Pierre Biver: “If youth knew, if age could”

GENERATIONS

Having revived mechanical watchmaking with Blancpain, boosted Omega’s global presence, put Hublot on the map, restructured TAG Heuer and shaken up Zenith, (...)

Sylvain Berneron: creativity unleashed

Sylvain Berneron: creativity unleashed

GPHG SERIES

Freshly crowned with the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève Audacity Prize, Sylvain Berneron shares with us his career path as an industrial designer, which (...)

The Scheufeles happy dynasty

The Scheufeles happy dynasty

GENERATIONS

Karl III, Karin, Karl-Friedrich, Christine, Caroline, Caroline-Marie, Karl-Fritz and Katarina Scheufele: a Chopard watch or jewel can be conceived of and (...)

Something must change if nothing is to change

Something must change if nothing is to change

GENERATIONS

This Generations special feature commences a series of articles and interviews, to be continued in upcoming issues of Europa Star, on the role family-owned (...)

Who runs the world? Families

Who runs the world? Families

EDITORIAL

As Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, president of Chopard, points out in the interview he, together with his son, gave us for the Generations series that begins in (...)