Looking back, to move forward
EDITORIAL
July 2022
The act of digitising archives not only dusts them off and freshens them up; by cataloguing them digitally, with the help of artificial intelligence, it (…)
Debunking the Quartz Crisis
July 2022
The distinction between vintage and modern is often drawn at the beginning of the 1980s, when nearly every Swiss watchmaking company failed. Although widely (…)
Launch of The Watch Library Foundation
HERITAGE
June 2022
The mission of The Watch Library Foundation is to digitise and make accessible hundreds of thousands of pages and documents of watchmaking heritage, in line (…)
The second life of Zenith’s legendary 135-O calibre
INTERVIEW
June 2022
On June 2, Zenith launched ten chronometers powered by the famous Calibre 135-O produced between 1949 and 1962, the most garlanded movement in observatory (…)
Watchmaking in 1927: major structural changes
95th ANNIVERSARY
May 2022
During the ‘Roaring Twenties’ the global watch industry was growing rapidly. Nearly one in two watches produced around the world came from a Swiss factory. (…)
When watchmakers face political risk: selling watches in the USSR
HISTORY
April 2022
Political risk has always been an issue for multinational companies in certain countries, as the recent closure of luxury stores in Russia shows. This is (…)
“Improving confidence in buying vintage Heuer”
INTERVIEW
January 2022
Nicholas Biebuyck is the new Heritage Director at TAG Heuer, a brand that is working on leveraging its long history, a key priority since its partnership (…)
UNESCO: a new starting point for watchmaking
OPINION
July 2021
In December 2020, UNESCO added the “craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics” to its representative list of the intangible cultural (…)
New watch archives online (1936-2021)
EUROPA STAR
May 2021
If you have a subscription to our digital archives, you may have noticed that we have now uploaded new sets of issues going back as far as the 1930s: more (…)
Watchmaking now on UNESCO’s world heritage list
HERITAGE
December 2020
UNESCO has registered the craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of (…)
Can watchmaking avoid another tragic loss of heritage?
KNOW-HOW
September 2020
Forty years ago, the quartz crisis caused havoc in the Swiss watch industry, leading to the destruction of many valuable documents in the ensuing economic (…)
A book on the most beautiful watch dials
LIBRARY
August 2020
There are innumerable books devoted to watchmaking, but as astonishing as it may seem, until now there was no work, no comprehensive survey focused (…)
