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Watchmakers: Haven’t they learned anything?
January 2010
With the economic decline, we cannot help but observe a distressing fact: the financial community has not learned any lessons from this devastating (...)
The positive side of the crisis
October 2009
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the manufacture’s founding in 1989, Christophe Claret decided to celebrate the event by exceptionally (...)
The importance of substance
August 2009
The news is more than alarming—it is a carnage. Statistics released by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry on watch exports for the first half-year (...)
Industrial culture
June 2009
With the economic crisis, certain words are returning to our vernacular -words that, only a short time ago, hardly a few months at most, (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch industry 2008/2009 - Children of the Bubble
April 2009
Last year, at this same time and when the market was in full euphoria, we wrote in these columns that, “when the watch bubble will explode, (...)
“Up to now, everything’s ok...!”
March 2009
It’s like the parable of the man who falls from a tall building. As long as he falls, he keeps repeating to himself: “Up to now, everything’s ok… Up (...)
The watch industry in 2009: a decline of 15 to 20 percent!
January 2009
The watch industry is going to lose ground. This is now certain. It will decline in terms of both value and volume. It will shrink for everyone, but (...)
Inside the bubble...
November 2008
One of the things to be expected (among others) about economic crises is that the abundant commentaries they incite are discredited nearly as soon as they (...)
Long live the watch industry holiday!
August 2008
The watch industry in Switzerland is perhaps one of the only industries in the world to draw the curtain shut and stop production for three weeks every (...)
The empires, kingdoms, and knights of the watch table
June 2008
The great empires and kingdoms that make up the largest slice of the proverbial watchmaking pie (Swatch Group, Richemont, LVMH, Rolex, (...)
The large watchmaking casino
June 2008
If we returned home from the spring watch fairs with less weight in our luggage than in previous years, it is not at all because there were less (...)
Are we approaching the end of the bling era?
April 2008
The question of luxury and its corre-lation—supposed or real—with decadence is an age-old philosophical and historical debate. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, for (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2007/2008 - Effervescent exhilaration
April 2008
It continues. . . It continues to rise, unflappable, with no let up in sight. Every month, watches worth more than a billion (yes, with a (...)
Watchmaking with no taboos
February 2008
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 (...)
Strategic auctions
January 2008
We won’t go into detail, in this column, about the dramatic shockwaves travelling through the world of watch auctions. We are not looking to weigh (...)
History never ends
October 2007
We remember that, a few years ago, an American essayist, Francis Fukuyama, predicted the ‘end of history’. In his opinion, the fall of (...)
Let’s talk a little about ‘us’...
September 2007
In a departure from what is customary, let’s speak a little bit about us! ‘Us’ is not only Europa Star, but ‘us’ refers also to the overall watch media (...)
The paradox of 80 percent Swiss Made
July 2007
The great debate, which, under press-ure from the barons of timekeeping, has just begun regarding a reformed definition of ‘Swiss Made’ leading (...)
Horological machines
April 2007
Where does our never-ending fascination for ‘machines’ come from? This attraction holds true for all machines, large and small, locomotives or (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2006/2007 - Watchmaking runs the risk of excess
April 2007
What a glorious year! Do we even need to repeat the numbers, proclaimed loud and clear just about everywhere?