Thirteen years after its founding in 2013 – and ten years after introducing its gasket-free “nO-Ring” system – the independent brand has returned to where (…)

Powered by its own movements and long-standing expertise in private label manufacturing, the company is now seeking to rebalance its activities and restore (…)

From the Black Hole to the Orb, from the Middle East with Seddiqi to New York with Material Good, Vanguart has established itself as one of the most (…)

While the current watchmaking era tends to focus on finishes, Bernhard Lederer has never abandoned his goal: to improve the movement – and the escapement at (…)

On a bright sunny day in May, Europa Star invited the members of the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI) — which this year celebrates its (…)

Discreet and refined, the multi-awarded, independent haute horlogerie brand, launched in 2010, made its mark when it released the Sport Auto in the highly (…)

Through watches instilled with the ingenious engineering and stylistic restraint of his Danish homeland, Svend Andersen has brought some of horology’s (…)

From a pioneering serial-produced automatic wristwatch to the Gemini space programme, rugged functionality has always been at the heart of Fortis. When Jupp (…)

When both father and son are doctors specialising in plastic surgery and passionate about watches, the result is watchmaking entirely remodelled in line (…)

British journalist Chris Hall interviewed more than 80 independent watch brands about their operations and ambitions. We asked him about the findings of (…)

Chasing after time is one of the chronic illnesses of today. Learning to slow down time can only be beneficial. So says master watchmaker Emmanuel Bouchet (…)

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