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The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 9

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 9

The new base of Schwartz Etienne – Raphaël Radicchi became so enamoured with watchmaking that he formed a veritable and ‘verticalized’ small watch group (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 8

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 8

The Calibre 38 family of Eterna – In looking at the birth of the new Calibre 38 or, more precisely, at the new Calibre 38 family, we note that Eterna is a (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 7

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 7

The first steps of Bulgari’s calibre 168 – Operation 168 (named thusly because it comprises 168 components) began in earnest for Bulgari in 2007, the year (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 6

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 6

Zenith, El Primero on top – The famous El Primero movement is a veritable phoenix, which continues to be reborn from its ashes and to spread its (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 5

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 5

The Unico by Hublot – With his usual fiery enthusiasm, Jean-Claude Biver talks about Hublot’s Unico movement which is completely interchangeable with the (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 4

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 4

The watch movement inquiry continues with a closer look at some of the other initiatives being carried out by brands that desire to master, in-house, all (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 3

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 3

TAG Heuer has invested in the production of its own chronographic movement, the famous 1887. (We note in passing the current tropism that is pushing the (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 2

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 2

Besides the creation of movements that may be substituted for ETA calibres, watchmakers have also massively responded to the threat by accelerating the (...)

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 1

The Swiss watch planet in movement – Part 1

The Swatch Group and its industrial arms (essentially ETA, Nouvelle Lemania, and Frédéric Piguet for movements; as well as Nivarox-FAR for other (...)

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 (...)

Watch Movement Manufacturers: a progressive return to the 1950s?

Watch Movement Manufacturers: a progressive return to the 1950s?

Our publishing house, which was originally called Hugo Buchser SA after the name of its founder, used to publish (until 1986) the famous Le Guide des (...)

Watchmaking with no taboos

Watchmaking with no taboos

Recently, at the Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie in Geneva, one of the awards was not given out. According to the event’s organizers, the ‘prize (...)

The mechanical and financial heart of watchmaking

The mechanical and financial heart of watchmaking

In a recent book of interviews with the journalist Friedemann Bartu ‘Au-delà de la saga Swatch’ Nicolas Hayek laid a few cards on the table concerning (...)

BNB Concept – a one-stop shop for high-end movements

BNB Concept – a one-stop shop for high-end movements

On one side of watchmaking, you have the grand masters. On the other side of the spectrum is an up-and-coming movement maker called BNB (...)

Mechanical watchmaking: everything is yet to be done

Mechanical watchmaking: everything is yet to be done

”Everything has already been done in the realm of the mechanical timepiece.” Who dared say that just a few years ago? There were many, in fact, who (...)

Meeting with the new President of ETA

Meeting with the new President of ETA

In the summer of 2004, the Swatch Group announced that the President of ETA, Anton Bally, would be retiring from his managerial (...)

Battery-less watches

Battery-less watches

Seiko started the trend a few years ago with the splashy and successful introduction of its Kinetic series of watches. Tissot, Omega and Longines have (...)