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Archives & heritage
In watchmaking, it’s difficult to talk about the present or even the future without bringing up the past. Our selection of articles on archives and heritage.
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The risky lure of neo-vintage
12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY
April 2018
Slowly but surely over the past few years, a vintage wave has been sweeping through the watchmaking establishment and influencing styles like few phenomena (...)
From sedentary time to travelling clocks
HISTORY
February 2018
Whether in quest of pastures new, whether migrating, invading or conquering, engaged in trading and cultural exchanges or on exploration, crusades or (...)
Zulu time
TRAVEL WATCHES
February 2018
Compared with Universal Time and its traditional 24 time zones, the GMT watch is more modest in its offerings: a second time zone, a second ‘point of (...)
Have time, will travel
PORTFOLIO
January 2018
Watchmakers did not need Einstein to intuitively understand that time and space are closely associated, like the two faces of the same coin. Their art was (...)
A chronology of the chronograph
FROM THE BALANCE SPRING TO THE MOON (1675–1969)
January 2018
A forgotten consequence of the Korean war
ARCHIVES
November 2017
In 1952, the Swiss government took the controversial decision to restrict watch exports to Hong Kong. Watchmakers were obliged to respect quotas that cut (...)
A short history of watch fairs
RETROSPECTIVE
March 2017
Although they differ greatly in appearance, the markets of the Middle Ages and today’s big watchmaking exhibitions share the same commercial ambitions. (...)
Roskopf, the forgotten proletarian watch
HISTORY
March 2017
Some fifty years ago, in 1967, Europa Star (issue 3/1967) published an article in collaboration with the Roskopf Association celebrating the hundredth (...)
The Jewish roots of Swiss watchmaking
HERITAGE
January 2017
The roots of “Watch Valley” are not only Protestant, as the popular image would have it. Jews – from Alsace in particular – contributed just as much to the (...)
The chronograph: an expression of modern times
HISTORY
January 2017
The chronograph, an ingenious invention of modern times, has taken the measure of human progress for nearly two centuries.