This somewhat provocative and paradoxical question is prompted by the birth of watch incubator Watch Angels, backed by subcontracting group FM Swiss (…)

We’re all of us, all fogged up. Literally, because wearing a mask makes your glasses steam up, and metaphorically because the horizon is looking very murky (…)

Founded in August 2020 in the midst of the pandemic, SIHS – the French acronym for Subcontractors to the Swiss Watch Industry – is the first non-profit (…)

The watch industry is going through its sharpest decline ever recorded over the last 80 years. How to make a “lost decade for watchmaking” a decade won in (…)

There’s nothing better than a tour of the mountains of the watchmaking Jura region to meet the suppliers, sub-contractors or cocontractors – call them what (…)

As part of our latest report, we met several suppliers who form the very weft of the Swiss watchmaking fabric. Here is a short portrait of the Salon EPHJ.

As part of our latest report, we met several suppliers who form the very weft of the Swiss watchmaking fabric. Here is a short portrait of Les Fils d’Arnold (…)

As part of our latest report, we met several suppliers who form the very weft of the Swiss watchmaking fabric. Here is a short portrait of Zürcher Frères.

As part of our latest report, we met several suppliers who form the very weft of the Swiss watchmaking fabric. Here is a short portrait of Arrigoni-Laufer.

As part of our latest report, we met several suppliers who form the very weft of the Swiss watchmaking fabric. Here is a short portrait of Dubois Dépraz.

When the fabric of a dress dries out, it is weakened, unravels and tears, becomes shapeless and rapidly falls apart.

With both volumes and demand falling, the pandemic crisis has somewhat overshadowed the long-standing debate on the supply of Swiss mechanical movements to (…)