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Tianjin Sea-Gull Watch

Tianjin Sea-Gull Watch

Located 30 minutes by fast train from Beijing, Tianjin is the oldest industrial city in China. Add another 30 minutes from the station by car and you will (...)

Postcard from San Diego – Training with the Navy SEALs

Postcard from San Diego – Training with the Navy SEALs

Perched on my knees at the edge of the airplane door, the plane at 14,000 feet, I watched the elite Navy SEAL ‘Leap Frog’ jump team soar through the thin (...)

Crystal clear

Crystal clear

Watch crystals are rarely referred to in the pages of Europa Star, except perhaps for the occasional mention in a watch caption, but the art of crafting (...)

Movements – Citizen takes the offensive with its launch of the first in a new series of automatic 9000 calibres

Movements – Citizen takes the offensive with its launch of the first in a new series of automatic 9000 calibres

Citizen’s recent offensive in the domain of the mechanical movement has, without a doubt, been motivated primarily by purely strategic Japanese (...)

Servicing mechanical watches - an opportunity to shine

Servicing mechanical watches - an opportunity to shine

Lately, there has been some doom and gloom about the service aspect of the watch industry. Too many brands are doing a poor job of servicing watches - (...)

Rolex celebrates 50 years of underwater heritage

Rolex celebrates 50 years of underwater heritage [Video]

On the evening of January 23, 1960 as the setting sun turned the surface of the Pacific Ocean deep orange, Swiss oceanographer and engineer Jacques Piccard (...)

The very consistent Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire

The very consistent Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire

Exactitude, precision and chronometry are at the core of research in timekeeping carried out by Jaeger-LeCoultre. These words are not merely a marketing (...)

Soon a tourbillon watch for 1,500 Swiss francs

Soon a tourbillon watch for 1,500 Swiss francs

Recently, Europa Star went to visit the largest Chinese watchmaker, at least in terms of volume, since its Ebohr and Rossini brands account for 23 per cent (...)

Chanel's J12 comes out of the blue

Chanel’s J12 comes out of the blue [Video]

Every J12 is a surprise. First there was the ceramic J12, then a tourbillon version, followed by an haute joaillerie line, a GMT, a new ‘serious’ movement (...)

Beware of URWERK's Black Cobra's bite

Beware of URWERK’s Black Cobra’s bite

The latest generation of the UR-CC1 is the result of successful genetic manipulation.

Celsius X VI II – combining Haute Horlogerie and Mobile Telephony

Celsius X VI II – combining Haute Horlogerie and Mobile Telephony

Haute Horlogerie & Mobile Telephony

Forty years ago, when the quartz watch appeared for the first time in the marketplace, people thought that the age-old era of the mechanical (...)

First TITONI Artist Watch launched with a touch of Chinese Contemporary Art

First TITONI Artist Watch launched with a touch of Chinese Contemporary Art

“Return to the Aerosphere”

TITONI has launched its first Artist Watch in the presence of Mr. Zhang Qikai, the famous Chongqing-based painter and art critic. The solemn and joyful (...)

Vacheron Constantin, something timeless…

Vacheron Constantin, something timeless…

Founded in 1755, Vacheron Constantin has lived through many events during its age-old history—the French revolution, the Napoleonic era, the industrial (...)

The UR-103 is dead, long live URWERK

The UR-103 is dead, long live URWERK

The UR-103 is dead; long live Urwerk

To my knowledge, there is no other example of a watch brand that, after seven successful years, decides unilaterally to stop a collection that (...)

Milus TIRION Répétition Minutes Trirétrograde

Milus TIRION Répétition Minutes Trirétrograde

TIRION Répétition Minutes TriRétrograde

At BaselWorld 2010, Milus will be presenting the TIRION Répétition Minutes TriRetrograde, a masterpiece of design and (...)

Seiko – Dedicated to perfection

Seiko – Dedicated to perfection

The reception given to Ananta at Baselworld 2009 presaged a remarkable success for this new collection throughout the world. For 2010, three new (...)

Today's spark Tomorrow's sparkle

Today’s spark Tomorrow’s sparkle

Today’s spark Tomorrow’s sparkle

There is no better place to look for inspiration than the night’s stars. The celestial star Mira was the muse behind the Mira brand that was founded in (...)

Orient celebrates its 60th anniversary

Orient celebrates its 60th anniversary

60th anniversary

The Orient Watch Company Limited was founded on July 13th 1950 in Hino City, Tokyo and has been continuously producing unique, (...)

Tudor keeps the revs up for 2010

Tudor keeps the revs up for 2010 [Video]

Tudor recently underwent an immense re-looking, launching an array of powerful new collections that would give a totally new image to the (...)

Postcard from Las Vegas – A leap of faith

Postcard from Las Vegas – A leap of faith

As is typical for Las Vegas, the weather was dry and very, very hot – in fact, the heat set records for Las Vegas with temperatures hovering around 110 (...)