LVMH - Blossoming BULGARI
March 2014
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 (…)
PRESTIGE WATCHES - DIOR Horlogerie and ZENITH
March 2014
Since 2004, Zenith has been supplying Dior (both in the fold of the LVMH group, although Dior belongs directly to the Arnault family group, which has the (…)
PRESTIGE WATCHES - Cape Cod Silver by HERMES
March 2014
The Cape Cod line, a pillar of the Maison Hermès since 1991, reinvents itself this year in a stylish and elegant manner, while preserving its rounded curves (…)
INTERVIEW - CATCHING UP with the extremely busy MICHELE SOFISTI
March 2014
Running one brand is a challenge in today’s world where everything is a global decision. There are some who direct two brands. But, as far as I know, (…)
GRANDES MAISONS - The very radical Neo-Tourbillon under Three Bridges by GIRARD-PERREGAUX
March 2014
Girard-Perregaux iconoclastically proposes a new vision of its historic tourbillon with three bridges. In a quite radical break from the usually very (…)
GRANDES MAISONS - When H. MOSER & CIE goes wild
March 2014
The takeover of H. Moser & Cie by the MELB Holding family group is starting to bear fruit. Appointed to head the Schaffhausen-based manufacture a year (…)
GRANDES MAISONS - DEWITT - Imperial in style and innovation
March 2014
From day one, just over ten years ago, DeWitt watches were imbued with an inspired personality, a bold, architecturally structured appearance that made them (…)
GRANDES MAISONS - ULYSSE NARDIN, the joys of manufacture
There have been some big changes at Ulysse Nardin over the past few years. First of all, following the death of the brand’s charismatic boss Rolf Schnyder, (…)
GRANDES MAISONS - The beginnings of the new ETERNA
March 2014
Acquired in 2011 by Chinese group China Haidian (Ebohr, Rossini, Codex), Eterna has had its share of ups and downs over the past two years. The reins of the (…)
GRANDES MAISONS - CARL F. BUCHERER: Assertive but measured expansion
March 2014
The Lucerne-based brand presents its new Patravi ScubaTec at BaselWorld. Europa Star caught up with the company’s CEO, Sascha Moeri, to talk about this new (…)
MID-RANGE - RAYMOND WEIL, the legacy of a unanimously respected gentleman
March 2014
Mr Raymond Weil, founder of the eponymous brand, passed away on 26 January this year, at the age of 87. For the brand Raymond Weil, headed up by his (…)
MID-RANGE - FREDERIQUE CONSTANT - Manufacture for the masses
March 2014
The first thing you notice on entering the Frederique Constant factory is something that goes against most watch brands’ philosophy of keeping any kind of (…)