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New watch archives online (1936-2021)
EUROPA STAR
May 2021
If you have a subscription to our digital archives, you may have noticed that we have now uploaded new sets of issues going back as far as the 1930s: more (...)
The Watch Files - Jaquet-Droz: the forgotten history
PODCAST
May 2021
Join Serge Maillard, Publisher & CEO of Europa Star, and Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Grail Watch, to discover the stories of the events that changed (...)
Timing the Olympic Games
HISTORY OF WATCHMAKING
April 2021
If the Olympic Games finally take place this summer in Tokyo, it won’t be Seiko that will be responsible for timekeeping (unlike the Tokyo Olympics in (...)
The Watch Files #5 - The Accutron
PODCAST
April 2021
Join Serge Maillard, Publisher & CEO of Europa Star, and Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Grail Watch, to discover the stories of the events that changed (...)
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The Watch Files - Blancpain
PODCAST
April 2021
Join Serge Maillard, Publisher & CEO of Europa Star, and Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Grail Watch, as we tell the stories of the events that changed (...)
The Watch Files - Zenith
PODCAST
April 2021
Join Serge Maillard, Publisher & CEO of Europa Star, and Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Grail Watch, as we tell the stories of the events that changed (...)
The Watch Files - The Delirium
PODCAST
April 2021
Join Serge Maillard, Publisher & CEO of Europa Star, and Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Grail Watch, as we tell the stories of the events that changed (...)
The Watch Files - Gérald Genta
PODCAST
March 2021
Join Serge Maillard, Publisher & CEO of Europa Star, and Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Grail Watch, as we tell the stories of the events that changed (...)
Watchmaking now on UNESCO’s world heritage list
HERITAGE
December 2020
UNESCO has registered the craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of (...)
Museum: Audemars Piguet’s new oxymoron
GUIDED TOUR
October 2020
The new Audemars Piguet Museum is an oxymoron: a combination of opposites that create a strong and surprising experience. It associates the solid and (...)
Andersen Genève: 40 years of creative independence
RETROSPECTIVE
October 2020
In 2020, Andersen Genève launches a new jumping hours watch to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Thanks to our archives, we dive into the extraordinary career (...)
Tribute to Doris Maillard (1927-2020)
IN MEMORIAM
August 2020
Doris Maillard-Buchser peacefully left us on 7 June 2020 at the age of 92. She was the daughter of Hugo Buchser, the founder of our publishing house. Born (...)
Longines: the forgotten “first commercial quartz crystal watch”
HISTORY / GUEST COLUMN
août 2020
On August 20, 1969, Longines convened the press in Geneva to announce the world’s first commercial quartz wristwatch. Known as the Ultra-Quartz, it was more (...)
WOLF: a family business story - in five chapters
RETROSPECTIVE
July 2020
A family company that moves its headquarters to a different country with each new heir, for five generations? That’s WOLF! Founded in 1834 in Germany, the (...)
A tribute to Peter Baumberger (1939-2010)
HOMAGE
May 2020
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the passing of Peter Baumberger (Koppingen, 1939-Bienne, 2010), a brilliant watchmaker who invested his passion in (...)
Europa Star: a century of watch journalism
A HISTORY OF RESILIENCE
May 2020
We are entering the anniversary of the decade that saw the birth of the Europa Star publishing house, one century ago. It was during the Roaring Twenties, (...)
Cartier, jeweller of kings to luxury watchmaker
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
May 2020
Today, Cartier is one of the leading Swiss watch brands. Along with Rolex and Omega, it occupies the highly coveted segment of “accessible luxury”, i.e. (...)
Secret Gérald Genta designs soon to be revealed
EXCLUSIVE
February 2020
From the Nautilus to the Royal Oak, the most celebrated designer left behind not only a long list of iconic watches, but some 3400 unseen designs. We find (...)
1950-2020: The voices of my ancestors... and mine
EDITORIAL
January 2020
As wishes are in order for 2020, I succumbed to the temptation to look at what my predecessors had written as Europa Star entered each new decade since (...)
Swiss style and watchmaking
A MISSED OPPORTUNITY
September 2019
For all their use of characters, Swiss watchmakers have failed to take advantage of their country’s reputation for excellence in typography, with some (...)
The secret calendars of Japanese prints
HISTORY
July 2019
To circumvent the state monopoly on calendars, ingenious Japanese craftsmen designed prints that revealed – to initiates only – the alternation of short and (...)
Two of the oldest horological organizations join forces
WATCH EVENT
July 2019
The Horological Society of New York and the British Horological Institute will teach for the first time in their combined 300 years of history joint (...)
The historic links between watchmakers and arms manufacturers
ARMOURERS AND WATCHMAKERS
January 2019
Detonators, ammunition and vehicle dashboards: the two sectors complemented one another for no fewer than eight centuries, during which watchmakers (...)
Great Britain: a horological superpower for 200 years
GUEST COLUMN
July 2018
For about 200 years before the 20th century, Great Britain boasted undisputed supremacy of watchmaking, thanks to the British Empire’s global maritime (...)