Depancel, the sports watch comes of age
January 2024
Having launched in 2018 as a result of two successful Kickstarter campaigns, Depancel is now looking to establish its brand through a more specific product (…)
Lip, born again (and again)
December 2023
Founded in 1867 by Emmanuel Lipmann, Lip is an iconic brand of the French watchmaking industry. As a family business, it proudly flew the Gallic colours (…)
New beginnings for L. Leroy?
November 2023
Taking everyone by surprise, L. Leroy presented a new unique piece this year. Is this a sign that the French brand is making its return, almost ten years (…)
Herbelin, the French touch
PORTRAIT
November 2023
This family-owned brand, now with the third generation at the helm, knows exactly who it is and what it wants. The offering has been streamlined to focus on (…)
France Ebauches rises from its ashes
October 2023
Early 1994, France Ebauches filed for bankruptcy. This was, according to the headline in La Chaux-de-Fonds daily L’Impartial, the “end of French (…)
Yema: aiming for independence
October 2023
As of this year, the Calibre CMM.20 will equip selected Yema watches, including the Yema Wristmaster Traveller Micro-Rotor Limited Edition, and is available (…)
Pequignet and Calibre Royal
October 2023
Now with the automatic Calibre Royal, the manual-winding Calibre Royal Manuel (2017) and the Calibre Initial (2021) under its belt, the brand was in need of (…)
French movement-making: a pragmatic renewal
October 2023
It’s still early days but the ball is rolling: mechanical movement production is returning to France. The likes of Pequignet, Yema, France Ebauches, (…)
Francéclat: a map of France’s watch industry
September 2023
This French trade body has as its remit the defence of a robust national watch industry and has identified some 80 domestic brands. Francéclat has also set (…)
Watch Q&A with... Hugues Souparis – Pequignet
June 2023
“What makes us exclusive: automatic movements designed and assembled in France”
Pequignet: new ambitions for the French watch industry
FRANCE
February 2022
The Pequignet factory in Morteau has been taken over by French investment fund Enowe, which aims to revitalise national “houses of excellence”. Although it (…)
Semper & Adhuc: watchmaking in the circular economy
PORTRAIT
May 2020
It is by no means limited to watchmaking: the return to the local, the artisanal, the human, has been perceptible for years now, as the limitations of (…)
