Luc Monnet: freedom and sharing
April 2023
The Zen aphorism that “there is no goal at the end of the path, the path is the goal” could easily apply to Luc Monnet, a watchmaker, specialist in (…)
Portraits of a new wave
REPORT
April 2023
A new wave is coming to watchmaking. It’s not a tsunami and it won’t change the face of the industry, but it will have an effect. These are a new generation (…)
New waves
EDITORIAL
April 2023
In our latest issue we offer a series of portraits of some of these new-generation artisans, who will certainly make some waves. You’ll enjoy reading about (…)
Hervé Schlüchter’s existential watchmaking
PORTRAIT
November 2022
As independent watchmaking continues to make its mark, a new workshop – that of Hervé Schlüchter in Biel/Bienne – creates classically inspired watches with (…)
BA111OD gets to grips with the chronograph
INTERVIEW
November 2022
On 11 October 2022, three years after launching his own watch with the sole aim of proving that a gap existed in the traditional business model by proposing (…)
Doxa: the spectacular comeback
STRATEGY
June 2022
The historic specialist in diving watches saw its desirability increase tenfold in the midst of the pandemic. The Swiss family-owned brand has just launched (…)
Czapek and the Antarctique success story
June 2022
Independent watchmaker Czapek has decided to suspend orders for its flagship model, the Antarctique, for a year. The move is intended to help the brand (…)
Kari Voutilainen and Tatsuo Kitamura: a meeting of minds
COVER STORY
June 2022
This year, Kari Voutilainen celebrates 20 years of independent creation by joining forces with his Japanese “soulmate”, Tatsuo Kitamura, an expert in the (…)
David Candaux: The price of independence
PORTRAIT
July 2021
We are in Le Solliat, in the Joux Valley, two hundred metres from Philippe Dufour’s workshop and a short distance, as the crow flies, from the great (…)
Svend Andersen: Chance and necessity
PORTRAIT
July 2021
Svend Andersen, the co-founder of the AHCI, has played an important role, not only as a master watchmaker but also by welcoming a whole generation of young (…)
Vianney Halter: A free agent
PORTRAIT
July 2021
A more endearing man than Vianney Halter would be hard to find. The man – or kid, you might be tempted to say, since he has never succeeded in shaking off (…)
Rexhep Rexhepi: In pursuit of authenticity
PORTRAIT
July 2021
At the heart of Geneva’s historic city centre, the windows of Rexhep Rexhepi’s workshop – Akrivia – open directly onto the street, and it is no rare (…)
