Inside Delft's watchmaking arsenal: the Holthinrichs story

Inside Delft’s watchmaking arsenal: the Holthinrichs story

August 2026
Michiel Holthinrichs has a passion for ruined castles, Brutalist architecture and Peugeot 504s. From this unlikely combination emerged one of independent (…)

Inside Delft's watchmaking arsenal: the Holthinrichs story

Inside Delft’s watchmaking arsenal: the Holthinrichs story

July 2026
Michiel Holthinrichs has a passion for ruined castles, Brutalist architecture and Peugeot 504s. From this unlikely combination emerged one of independent (…)

Mauron Musy, under the sign of thirteen

Mauron Musy, under the sign of thirteen

March 2026
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 (…)

Schwarz Etienne: the ambitions of the 1902 collection

Schwarz Etienne: the ambitions of the 1902 collection

March 2026
Powered by its own movements and long-standing expertise in private label manufacturing, the company is now seeking to rebalance its activities and restore (…)

Inside Vanguart's radical rise

Inside Vanguart’s radical rise

March 2026
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 (…)

Lederer, a passion for escapements

Lederer, a passion for escapements

October 2025
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 (…)

Independence way: the AHCI turns 40

Independence way: the AHCI turns 40

September 2025
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 (…)

Laurent Ferrier's steady rise to success

Laurent Ferrier’s steady rise to success

September 2025
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 (…)

Andersen's mechanical tales

Andersen’s mechanical tales

September 2025
Through watches instilled with the ingenious engineering and stylistic restraint of his Danish homeland, Svend Andersen has brought some of horology’s (…)

Fortis redefined

Fortis redefined

September 2025
From a pioneering serial-produced automatic wristwatch to the Gemini space programme, rugged functionality has always been at the heart of Fortis. When Jupp (…)

Cyrus: a surgical approach to watchmaking

Cyrus: a surgical approach to watchmaking

September 2025
When both father and son are doctors specialising in plastic surgery and passionate about watches, the result is watchmaking entirely remodelled in line (…)

Key findings from a new study on independent watchmakers

Key findings from a new study on independent watchmakers

July 2025
British journalist Chris Hall interviewed more than 80 independent watch brands about their operations and ambitions. We asked him about the findings of (…)