Recommended reading
WATCHPRINT
December 2018
CHRONOMASTER ONLY by Grégoire Rossier & Anthony Marquié WATCHES: An Identification Manual for Contemporary and Collector’s Pieces by Fabrice Guéroux
Painter’s block
FREELY SPEAKING
August 2018
One of the good things about our place in Menton is that there’s no room for guests, although we make exceptions for our offsprings if they promise to stay (…)
Recommended reading
WATCHPRINT
July 2018
AUDEMARS PIGUET 20th century complicated wristwatches WATCHMAKERS: The Masters of Art Horology, Maxima Gallery
Colour watch trends summer 2018
July 2018
Who says “summer”, says “colours”! And not only in fashion and make-up, but also in the watchmaking industry. Juicy, attractive, and full of emotions, these (…)
The quirkiest alarm clocks
SUMMER DIARY
July 2018
The most ignored, despised, or at least forgotten timepiece is the humble but essential alarm clock – probably because it is also a totally pragmatic object (…)
It could have been a great advertisement
VINTAGEMANIA
July 2018
It was a sunny day on the Atlantic coast in France. Mr. X (pseudonym) thought it was a great opportunity to practice his swing on the golf course nearby. It (…)
“The internet is going to allow Corum to filter its real partners”
INTERVIEW WITH JÉRÔME BIARD
April 2018
Jérôme Biard, the new CEO of Corum and Eterna, explains the mission entrusted to him, centred on Golden Bridge, Admiral, and a “return to common sense” for (…)
The Unique Admiral Chronographe Flyback Prato
BASELWORLD 2018
April 2018
A good mechanical chronograph is one of the staples of any watch manufacturer, but there are chronographs and chronographs. So when Ateliers de Monaco (…)
Tintin
BASELWORLD 2018
April 2018
They were all there at the conference, just as we remember them. They hadn’t aged in the least, in fact they looked just like the very first time I saw them (…)
Ice-watch: collections, partnerships and talk of marriage
BASELWORLD 2018
April 2018
Having discovered the new Ice Ola Kids, Ice Sunset and City Sunset collections of watches, out of the blue, so to speak, Jean-Pierre Lutgen produces a (…)
When I was old… A nostalgic trip down memory lane
FREELY SPEAKING
March 2018
My first trip to Basel was to visit the European Watch and Jewellery Fair. It was 1979 and I’d just been employed as a magazine editor for a company in (…)
Good, better, best
WATCHWORDS
March 2018
Superlatives are the meat and potatoes of watch advertising copy. That shiny new timepiece, whether it rolled off a production line in Shenzhen or emerged (…)
