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Everything was there, right from the beginning

Everything was there, right from the beginning

François-Paul Journe: Invenit et Fecit was the inscription that 18th Century French horologers engraved on their pocket watches, once their (...)

France: The large groups and their irreproachable networks

France: The large groups and their irreproachable networks

I am writing this letter upon my return from Vinexpo, the largest wine-related fair in the world, which took place at the end of June in Bordeaux. (...)

Germany: Time for true values

Germany: Time for true values

Germany's watch and jewellery retailers have enormous economic problems. As a result jewellers stagger into bankruptcy and shopkeepers look to the (...)

England: Four out of No.8: new watches and new shops from Asprey

England: Four out of No.8: new watches and new shops from Asprey

London's Bond Street is lined up and down and either side with luxury goods retailers bearing world-famous names, and some of them are distinctly (...)

Moscow: The lost world

Moscow: The lost world

While mechanical watches all over the world have less than 4% share of the watch market, there are markets where besides being just popular, (...)

Cultural revolution at Seiko

Cultural revolution at Seiko

Seiko is undergoing a major transformation. Since 2001, the watch division of the Seiko Corporation, still belonging to the founding Hattori (...)

TAG Heuer The living legend

TAG Heuer The living legend

With a cupboard full of patents, a more than honourable collection of firsts and an innate desire to be ahead of the game, TAG Heuer watches are (...)

Mistrust The real disease

Mistrust The real disease

For people who live here, for the city of Hong Kong itself, for its enterprises, for its watch professionals, absolutely no one could have (...)

Interview with Kevin Lau, Managing Director of Hanville Company Limited, Hong Kong

Interview with Kevin Lau, Managing Director of Hanville Company Limited, Hong Kong

Europa Star : After the BaselWorld fiasco, have you the feeling that the Swiss Government has been enforcing double standards regarding the Hong Kong (...)

France: Quality Compensated for Quantity

France: Quality Compensated for Quantity

French watchmakers went to BaselWorld without a lot of hope, feeling that the gloomy global context called for a catastrophic show. With the worldwide (...)

Italy: Turning the page

Italy: Turning the page

A page has turned. The great watch craze, which saw everybody from business people to aficionados buying everything in sight, seems to have (...)

Germany: Low expectations and surprisingly good business.

Germany: Low expectations and surprisingly good business.

It is the same procedure every year. As a journalist you make a lot of appointments prior to the watch and jewellery fairs in Switzerland every spring, (...)

England: BaselWorld and SIHH recalled

England: BaselWorld and SIHH recalled

Please excuse diary form. Too much to say to write good English! BaselWorld, so named this year suddenly, yet excluding therefore second venue (...)

Has Russia potential?

Has Russia potential?

During the years of Gorbachov's perestroika the former USSR's watch industry, which had supplied a country with a population of 260 million and (...)

The Watch Culture in Rumania

The Watch Culture in Rumania

PART 1

The lack of a watch culture is obvious in Romania, and not only among ordinary people… Before 1989, stores in Rumania were full of watches from the (...)

Patek Philippe's '10 Day Tourbillon'

Patek Philippe's '10 Day Tourbillon'

It takes much more than just a cursory glance at Patek Philippe's debut showpiece for Basel 2003 to realize that this is a highly complicated (...)

And, now about Jaeger-Lecoultre...

And, now about Jaeger-Lecoultre...

Jérôme Lambert: Before I say anything else, I would like to state that the 'rumours' you refer to are false. If the market is now (...)

Plato chez Zola

Plato chez Zola

Europa Star: When one sees and visits the buildings of the old Zenith manufacturing facilities, one is struck by their enormity and by an industrial (...)

Péquignet celebrates its 30th anniversary

Péquignet celebrates its 30th anniversary

For its 30th birthday, the French brand Péquignet is presenting a mechanical watch in a series of 30 pieces, and is changing its location at (...)

The haut de gamme target

The haut de gamme target

Europa Star: Last year, Saint-Honoré conducted a major advertising campaign to increase the brand's visibility on an international level. (...)