A certain conformism reigns among watchmakers, who tend to follow what they see as the predominating trend of the time – which today means the great vintage (...)

Well before the atomic clock, the “mother” of all clocks – the reference for time, as a yardstick was for yards – was the regulator.

The ability to display tiny fractions of time is without a doubt one of horology’s most important conquests. The chronograph was a crucial instrument of (...)

Just this once, the special Europa Star October edition of Watch Curator 2018 devoted the majority of its pages to... watches! They are, after all, front (...)

How might our timepieces have looked if the Earth was a flat as pancake launched into space? It’s a stupid question, but along the way we would have lost (...)

Over-use by watchmakers – and others – of the Bauhaus school’s famous founding phrase “form follows function” has turned it into a rather hackneyed (...)

Memento Mori… Remember that you must die! Our time on Earth has a beginning and an end. Without death, there would be no (...)

Watches are getting smaller, with unnecessary additions being cut back. In all segments of the watch market, super-size watch faces are today considered (...)

Appearing first in the sixteenth century, the adjective “baroque” comes from the Portuguese barocco, which meant a pearl with an irregular shape. From there, (...)

Smartwatches have become an everyday item. The Apple Watch is a “wrist accessory” that has been adopted by millions of aficionados from Sydney to New York (...)