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RETROPERSPECTIVE - The Watch Year 2013/2014: three-fold VERTICAL INTEGRATION
March 2014
It is always easier to look back and analyse what happened last year than to look ahead and try to predict, even in the most cursory way, what will happen (...)
Letter from China - CHINA WATCH MARKET in 2013, a zone of turbulence
March 2014
After years of growth at over 40 per cent, the Chinese market started to lose steam in 2012 and took a nose dive in 2013. Is this the chronicle of a (...)
The Swiss watchmaking industry’s POKER RISK
February 2014
The combination of computer-aided design, high-precision machining on increasingly powerful multi-axis CNC machines, high-tech materials science and… the (...)
Watch Industry in 2014: THE AIR is getting thinner
January 2014
Is it a strong signal, a simple symptom, an “industrial accident” or collateral damage? Whatever the verdict may be, the fact that the GTE (Geneva Time (...)
EUROPA STAR, the seismograph of the world’s watch market
January 2014
Europa Star occupies a unique position in the galaxy of watchmaking media: that of the indispensable business magazine of reference. We speak to the entire (...)
The Future of Watchmaking: A world OF POTENTIAL
October 2013
It is a persistent impression and one confirmed by a whole series of all kinds of indicators. But what impression is it, exactly? The impression that (...)
SWATCH GROUP forced to reopen the doors of its “supermarkets”
August 2013
From 1 January 2014, the Swatch Group will once again have to supply its assortments to anyone who asks for them, without restriction. The planned (...)
The Watch World in 2013: WAR is declared
June 2013
What do the layout of a magazine – Europa Star in this case – and the global situation of an industry – the watch industry in this case – have in common? At (...)
RETROPERSPECTIVE - The Watch Year 2012/2013: Consolidation of the empires
April 2013
The figures are there, impressive, unmistakable: in 2012, the Swiss watchmaking industry passed the historic barrier of CHF 20 billion at export (figures (...)
Time Perspective - The log and the speck
April 2013
Planck the satellite (not the physicist, he died in 1947), has just sent us a photograph of our universe that turns the clock back 13.8 billion years, (...)
Small Independent Watch Brands - The lament of those who are drowning
March 2013
The refrain is well known. It has been sung in these columns on several occasions, but now it has really become stuck in the mind. The refrain? The lament, (...)
SIHH: Under the sign of Midas
February 2013
On the second day of the SIHH, thinking about all the watches that had passed through my hands that day, I noted that the most affordable among them was (...)
Mixed Signals on the Watch Front
December 2012
Children are not the only ones who like to play at being scared. These days there are so many examples, in both film and literature, of post-apocalyptic (...)
Is watchmaking an art? A special Art & Watchmaking section
December 2012
Is watchmaking an art? Is it the 12th Art, as was ceremoniously proclaimed during the last Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix?
Service, please! – A new watch business section in Europa Star
December 2012
In the world of watchmaking there is a continent, somewhat obscure, on which the media projectors rarely cast their light—much too rarely. What we are (...)
Watch Industry: Europe, a (still rich) museum
October 2012
Upon my return from a trip to São Paulo, an incredible metropolis of nearly 20 million people (or, about three times the size of Switzerland), I couldn’t (...)
The watchmaking seismograph
August 2012
These days, a strange ambiance reigns in the Swiss watch industry. Following its spectacular and rapid recovery after the 2009 post-crisis dive, it again (...)
Mechanical watch globalisation & the sacrosanct Swiss Made
May 2012
In 1969, Seiko won the Chronometry Competition at the Neuchâtel Observatory. The Swiss response was immediate: the Chronometry Competitions would no longer (...)
RETROPERSPECTIVE - The Watch Year 2011/2012: AAA
March 2012
AAA. It is the word of the year. Or, at least, the three most coveted letters of the moment. Well, there are the AAAs and then there are others. Those that (...)
Watch shows, the big transition
March 2012
Everyone who comes to Basel this year will be surprised to find a completely transformed Messeplatz. A large building hangs as if suspended in mid-air (...)