Partnerships between watch and car brands are primarily marketing operations. But they can also result in the creation of some exceptional timepieces. With (...)

The Poinçon de Genève (the quality hallmark for Geneva watches) reveals its new hallmarking technique known as nanostructural marking. This revolutionary and (...)

The most expensive watches in the world change on a regular basis as brand’s vie for the PR mileage that can be earned from claiming the crown for the most (...)

Japanese maki-e lacquer brings a touch of the East to Swiss watchmaking with techniques that are even older than the measurement of (...)

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 (...)

The Berner’s Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology is now available here for all your watch term translations in French, English, German and (...)

We hear more and more about the use of silicon in watchmaking. The material is quite promising because of its particular properties, its surface (...)

I can’t seem to wear mechanical watches. Either they work sporadically or they don’t work at all on my wrist. Why is that? Luigi Zanneti, La Spezia, (...)

Why do watches have rubies in them? Eleanor Hawkins, Lancaster, England

Recently my watch began reading time in a most bizarre way. Someone told me it might be magnetized. What does this mean and how could it have happened? (...)