Watch Curator ’18
- Tough
THE OTT SIDE OF WATCHMAKING
October 2018
Watches are getting smaller, with unnecessary additions being cut back. In all segments of the watch market, super-size watch faces are today considered (…)
Watch Curator ’18
- New Display
FREE FROM TWO-HANDED TYRANNY
October 2018
It’s no easy task, freeing watches from the two hands that show the hour and the minutes! No easy task, because it is through the movement of these two (…)
Watch Curator ’18
- Barocco
THE “IRREGULAR” PEARLS
October 2018
Appearing first in the sixteenth century, the adjective “baroque” comes from the Portuguese barocco, which meant a pearl with an irregular shape. From (…)
Watch Curator ’18
- Vintage & Neo-vintage
THE APPEAL OF NOSTALGIA
October 2018
“La nostalgie, c’est le désir d’on ne sait quoi” (”Nostalgia is the desire for the indefinable something")—Saint-Exupéry.
Watch Curator ’18
- Connected
TIME TO BURY THE HATCHET?
October 2018
Smartwatches have become an everyday item. The Apple Watch is a “wrist accessory” that has been adopted by millions of aficionados from Sydney to New York (…)
Watch Curator ’18
- Calibres
QUARTZ IS NOT DEAD!
October 2018
In Europa Star Time Business 4/18 we have made clear the parallel trajectories of connected and vintage mechanical watches. In this context, things might (…)
Portfolio ’New materials’
July 2018
New materials free the imagination and offer new creative fields to the watchmaking industry. They bring color, impose transparency, offer lightness (…)
Top 5 watch trends 2018
A SELECTION, JANUARY-JUNE
May 2018
Europa Star will publish next September its “Watch Curator” issue featuring a selection of models of the year chosen by Pierre and Serge Maillard. (…)
When a watch is also a genuine tool
TRAVEL WATCHES
January 2018
Not all journeys are the same... Walkers, ramblers, trekkers, mountain climbers and other explorers do not have the same needs as the jet-lagged passengers (…)
World Time Gallery
PORTFOLIO
January 2018
The horological Noah’s Ark (Part 1)
PORTFOLIO
October 2017
“By imagining tomorrow, which apparently no other animal is capable of doing, we have given value to the present.” Albert Jacquard
The horological Noah’s Ark (Part 2)
PORTFOLIO
October 2017
Why is horology so attached to the animal world? Why this love of butterflies, birds, horses and tigers? Not to mention snakes, monkeys and scorpions...
