BaselWorld left us with an uneasy feeling this year … in the halls, more munificent ever, the impression was that the industry was cruising, ‘business as (…)

Everyone has their ups and downs, the days when they are full of beans and those when they are at the end of their tether. So is the watchmaking industry up (…)

It is always easier to look back and analyse what happened last year than to look ahead and try to predict, even in the most cursory way, what will happen (…)

After years of growth at over 40 per cent, the Chinese market started to lose steam in 2012 and took a nose dive in 2013. Is this the chronicle of a (…)

François Thiébaud, the boss of Tissot since 1996, is beaming. And he has good reason to, it seems, since the Swatch Group’s mid-range brand sold around four (…)

Despite the apparent slowdown in consumption in China and the continued strength of the Swiss franc, the Swatch Group continues to go from strength to (…)

For the past four years, Glashütte Original has been an official sponsor of the Berlinale, the major film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. “We are (…)

The Sistem51 owes its name to the number of components in its self-winding movement. The most astonishing characteristic is that, among these 51 components, (…)

Europa Star had the chance to talk to Elmar Mock, one of the inventors of the original Swatch, who is now one of the managing partners of the Creaholic (…)

Stéphane Linder was appointed CEO of TAG Heuer on 1st June 2013, barely 10 months ago, and has therefore only just started in the job. But he is a man from (…)

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the V4, the only watch in the world that is belt-driven, TAG Heuer is making waves by presenting the V4 Tourbillon. It (…)

One of the first major synergies resulting from Bulgari’s integration into the LVMH group was seen at this year’s BaselWorld with the launch of the (…)