In the early 1980s, at the height of the crisis affecting the Swiss watch sector, three separate institutes funded by the Swiss state and large watchmaking (…)

We have known since mankind first tried to measure time that its laws come from the cosmos, straight from the sky. What, then, could be more natural for any (…)

It is sometimes said that, as far as mechanical watch movements are concerned, everything, or nearly everything, has already been achieved. So is mechanical (…)

Innovations are perhaps were we need to look, if we are to overcome the major challenges of our time. In our latest report we identify some of the major (…)

It will be new CEO Sylvain Dolla’s first major project. Tissot’s connected watch, the T-Touch Connect Solar, has been eagerly awaited, as the new market (…)

This year, the German town of Glashütte celebrates 175 years of watchmaking history. And while A. Lange & Söhne and Glashütte Original are its (…)

For the 60th anniversary of the first fully electronic timepiece in history, Accutron has not just launched a commemorative limited series; it has (…)

For the past twenty years, Olivier Gamiette has created concept cars for a major automobile group. In his spare time, his passion is designing watches. The (…)

In the 21st century more than ever before, reliable information is the key to industrial success. As early as the 1960s, the Swiss watchmaking industry set (…)

On an object that measures just a few centimetres across – a watch – the shapes and lines can sometimes end up looking disturbingly similar... even when (…)

Five years after holding its first horological initiation class in Switzerland, the startup can pride itself on having modernised the induction process to (…)

Smartwatches? They account for 12% of turnover at Frédérique Constant and 35% at Alpina. With the creation of MMT, Peter Stas is one step ahead in the (…)