Dieter Meier, founder of the legendary electronic music group Yello, a precursor of the techno movement, conceptual artist, film director, former (…)

With a touch of humour, Shinji Hattori, the chairman and CEO of the Japanese watchmaker, says that he thought for a moment that “BaselWorld must have been (…)

Since 2004, the WorldWatchReport™, published by the Digital Luxury Group in partnership with Europa Star, has provided the industry with an exclusive (…)

Carl F. Bucherer is doing well. The clearest indication of this is that Jörg G. Bucherer, the grandson of Carl Friedrich Bucherer, who established the (…)

Les Ambassadeurs, founded 1964, is one of Switzerland’s finest retailers. They bill themselves as “The Leading House of Leading Brands” and have four stores (…)

The figures are there, impressive, unmistakable: in 2012, the Swiss watchmaking industry passed the historic barrier of CHF 20 billion at export (figures (…)

Planck the satellite (not the physicist, he died in 1947), has just sent us a photograph of our universe that turns the clock back 13.8 billion years, (…)

At the time of writing, we do not yet know the name of Jean-Christophe Babin’s successor at the head of TAG Heuer, but he or she will arrive at the controls (…)

Zenith achieved sales of around CHF 150 million in 2012 after selling around 25,000 watches (including 100 high-end pieces like the Colombus) and has just (…)

An exceptional watch recently created (and sold) by Louis Vuitton is the perfect example of the brand’s watchmaking strategy. This unique piece costing (…)

Having started at Corum in 2005 as vice-president of operations, Antonio Calce became CEO in 2007 and, when Séverin Wunderman died in 2008, also became a (…)

By the time you read this, we Europeans will have once again messed about with time and put our clocks forward an hour to benefit from the joys of extra (…)