Walter von Känel and François Thiébaud: two “rocks” of Swiss watchmaking

Walter von Känel and François Thiébaud: two “rocks” of Swiss watchmaking

CROSSING PATHS

June 2020
Who could have imagined, in early 2020, that we’d be where we are today? The pandemic crisis is accelerating change everywhere. Two “rocks” of the Swiss (…)

Hamilton: the Pulsar is back – at last!

Hamilton: the Pulsar is back – at last!

PORTRAIT

April 2020
An all-too rare sign of optimism in a chaotic world? Now the time has come to start thinking about the post-coronavirus world, the new PSR model, a (…)

Swatch: New headquarters and a lot of questions

Swatch: New headquarters and a lot of questions

WHAT’S NEXT

February 2020
The magnificent “serpent” designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for Swatch took more than eight years to rise out of the ground and unfurl its coils in (…)
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Hamilton: “We're making the most of the vintage trend”
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Hamilton: “We’re making the most of the vintage trend”

STRATEGY

December 2019
While smartwatches are visible absolutely everywhere in the United States, Hamilton, that most American of Swiss watchmakers, is experiencing a strong (…)
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Swatch Group: the “vintage & silicon” strategy
Europa Star

Swatch Group: the “vintage & silicon” strategy

INTERVIEW

October 2019
Mido’s Ocean Star is 75 years old, but its new version, the Ocean Star Diver 600, is equipped with silicon. It’s an embodiment of the Swatch Group’s (…)

One giant leap for Omega

One giant leap for Omega

EUROPA STAR ARCHIVES

July 2019
For 50 years, Omega has been capitalising on the extraordinary adventure that made its Speedmaster the first watch to be worn on the Moon. In our July 1969 (…)

Manager or entrepreneur?

Manager or entrepreneur?

EDITORIAL

July 2019
“Today, lots of brands are led by technocrats who talk about emotion,” says Jean- Claude Biver. We investigated in our archives to find how the figure of (…)

Glashütte Original, Saxon to the core

Glashütte Original, Saxon to the core

RETRO-PERSPECTIVE

June 2019
Glashütte Original draws its inspiration from its roots in 1845, from the 1920s with the work of Alfred Helwig, from the 1960s, from its rebirth in the (…)

Streetwear Swatch

Streetwear Swatch

COLLABORATION

June 2019
For a long time, the Swiss brand has wanted to translate a form of colourful urban culture into watchmaking. It finds natural ties with the Japanese (…)

Jaquet Droz and the Grande “small second”

Jaquet Droz and the Grande “small second”

RETRO-PERSPECTIVE

May 2019
It was only in the mid-2000s that Jaquet Droz regained a strong identity by delving into its archives and rediscovering a watch from 1785 – a model whose (…)

Blancpain: The unsinkable Fifty Fathoms

Blancpain: The unsinkable Fifty Fathoms

RETRO-PERSPECTIVE

May 2019
Like many brands in 2019, Blancpain is capitalising on its 20th century icons, and particularly on the adventure of the Fifty Fathoms.

Breguet's unchanging codes

Breguet’s unchanging codes

RETRO-PERSPECTIVE

May 2019
The imprint left by Abraham-Louis Breguet was so strong, technically and aesthetically, that the successive houses that bore his name have never deviated (…)