In the watch business it’s difficult to talk about the present without bringing up the past. It’s almost Pavlovian.

Art deco advertisements certainly look prettier mounted on your wall than the modern ones you’ll find in the glossy magazines in your doctor’s waiting room. (…)

Slowly but surely over the past few years, a vintage wave has been sweeping through the watchmaking establishment and influencing styles like few phenomena (…)

Whether in quest of pastures new, whether migrating, invading or conquering, engaged in trading and cultural exchanges or on exploration, crusades or (…)

Compared with Universal Time and its traditional 24 time zones, the GMT watch is more modest in its offerings: a second time zone, a second ‘point of (…)

Watchmakers did not need Einstein to intuitively understand that time and space are closely associated, like the two faces of the same coin. Their art was (…)

In 1952, the Swiss government took the controversial decision to restrict watch exports to Hong Kong. Watchmakers were obliged to respect quotas that cut (…)

Although they differ greatly in appearance, the markets of the Middle Ages and today’s big watchmaking exhibitions share the same commercial ambitions. (…)

Some fifty years ago, in 1967, Europa Star (issue 3/1967) published an article in collaboration with the Roskopf Association celebrating the hundredth (…)

The roots of “Watch Valley” are not only Protestant, as the popular image would have it. Jews – from Alsace in particular – contributed just as much to the (…)

The chronograph, an ingenious invention of modern times, has taken the measure of human progress for nearly two centuries.