Watch winders on a quest for recognition
November 2025
Only a fraction of watch owners keep their timepieces ticking using a watch winder. Enter Louis Castelli, an entrepreneur at the helm of two specialists (…)
Perspectives on dialmaking
May 2024
Over the past few months, we met with dozens of professionals in the dialmaking sector: the company bosses, managers and independent craftspeople whose (…)
Special report: Dialmaking in the Arc Jurassien
February 2024
Dialmaking is a complex profession. One that requires the mechanical engineer’s precision as much as the artistic sensitivity of the artisan. Europa Star (…)
Spotlight on luminous dials
January 2024
More than a century after the first applications of radioluminescent paint, a book and a film – The Radium Girls – commemorates the tragic fate of these (…)
Jérôme Boutteçon, the first master craftsman in marquetry on dials
PORTRAIT
January 2024
As a young man, he dreamed of becoming a sculptor. Alarmed at the idea of having an artist son, his father forced him to train as a cabinetmaker. An (…)
Behind the scenes of a decorative art: Guilloché
January 2024
Disenchanted professionals sometimes choose radically different work orientations, often worlds away from the career for which they studied. Such is the (…)
“The Dial”: a bestselling blockbuster
January 2024
In the small world of auctioneers, Dr Helmut Crott is a legend. A watch auction expert for more than half a century, his expertise has been at the service (…)
Agenhor: poetry in motion
October 2023
Established by Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, who passed the mantle to his two sons, Agenhor is a family affair that specialises in custom-designed modules and (…)
Le Cercle des Horlogers: by appointment only
October 2023
Le Cercle des Horlogers doesn’t do off-the-peg. Only “extensively personalised” movements whose inventiveness and prestige have earned the company an (…)
Schwarz Etienne’s grand ambitions
October 2023
Schwarz Etienne movements are built on a fully modular concept, enabling evolution of both manual-winding and micro-rotor equipped automatic movements (…)
Chronode: made-to-measure
October 2023
Chronode is not your run-of-the-mill mechanical movement-maker. The company, based in Le Locle, offers contemporary, innovative solutions and provides (…)
LTM: good things come in small packages
October 2023
From its base in Fleurier in Val-de-Travers – a region whose reputation for excellence could soon rival that of Vallée de Joux – Le Temps Manufactures (…)
