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EveryWatch Insights: Geneva Auctions

EveryWatch Insights: Geneva Auctions

In this first column for Europa Star, watch auction data specialist EveryWatch details some of the highlights of the May 2024 Geneva auctions, which (...)

China: an industry obsession since the 1990s

China: an industry obsession since the 1990s

COLUMN

In 2024 Europa Star is celebrating 30 years of its China issue (the magazine’s Asia version goes back even further, to 1950). Pascal Brandt, a longstanding (...)

Formex: extreme shapes meet sport-chic

Formex: extreme shapes meet sport-chic

Now managed by a family-owned group specialising in watch part production, Formex has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence since its Kickstarter relaunch in (...)

Watches and Wonders to stage fourth China edition in Shanghai

Watches and Wonders to stage fourth China edition in Shanghai

After Geneva, it’s off to China for a new edition of the event, slated for 28 August to 1 September 2024, at the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai. The show (...)

Corsairs and pirates

Corsairs and pirates

EDITORIAL

It’s important not to confuse pirates, “outlawed freebooters who sailed and pillaged ships for their own personal gain,” with corsairs, “mandated by a (...)

Game of Thrones co-producer launches his jewellery line in Geneva

Game of Thrones co-producer launches his jewellery line in Geneva

Nothing about the Jaqueline Powers jewellery brand, created by Vince Gerardis, co-executive producer of the series, brings to mind the fantasy world (...)

Vacheron Constantin reopens newly renovated Zurich boutique

Vacheron Constantin reopens newly renovated Zurich boutique

After three months of renovation, the 100-square-meter store swings its doors open again. For the first time worldwide, the boutique features an exclusive (...)

COSC: competition for the arbiter of precision horology

COSC: competition for the arbiter of precision horology

The Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute, the COSC, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023. This non-profit foundation has played a crucial role (...)

Porrentruy: the little-known “other” hub of Swiss watchmaking

Porrentruy: the little-known “other” hub of Swiss watchmaking

Unlike that of Geneva, the Joux Valley, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, Biel or other places, the history of watchmaking in Porrentruy tends to be overlooked. (...)

Maurice Lacroix opens third mono-brand store in Malaysia

The Swiss brand brings a taste of the Franches Montagnes to Kuala Lumpur, in collaboration with Watatime, Malaysia’s leading authorised retailer of luxury (...)

Richard Mille: for the love of sport

Richard Mille: for the love of sport

The Franco-Swiss brand watches over a “family” of 40-plus partners. From accomplished athletes to rising stars, they excel in a vast range of disciplines, (...)

Ocarat: the French retailer with 180 brands

Ocarat: the French retailer with 180 brands

Its catalogue reads like a who’s who of affordable contemporary watchmaking, from established names to startups and micro-labels. As well as making 99% of (...)

Both sides of the border

Both sides of the border

EDITORIAL

In our latest issue (3/24), we bring you a comprehensive report on the French watchmaking industry, which has gained momentum in recent years – welcome (...)

Société Suisse de Chronométrie: 100 years of innovation

Société Suisse de Chronométrie: 100 years of innovation

PORTRAIT

Dedicated to the knowledge sharing and technology transfer that spurs all watchmaking innovations, the SSC is one of the (few) actors that prove it is (...)

Introducing Watch Week Aspen 8-11 August 2024

Introducing Watch Week Aspen 8-11 August 2024

Oliver Smith Jeweller and the Aspen Chamber of Commerce are bringing the inaugural four-day fête to the upscale resort town, offering another great reason (...)

The rebirth of Cornell Watch Company

The rebirth of Cornell Watch Company

Despite its brief existence some 150 years ago, this Chicago company seemed to wield a tremendous influence - arguably, among other things, giving an early (...)

Purtec's watchmaking dream team

Purtec’s watchmaking dream team

Arnaud Faivre founded TEC Ebauches in 2008, rapidly developed its offerings, diversified its business and on that basis launched the TEC Group in 2018. (...)

Longines: “High-end brands don't have a monopoly on legacy!”

Longines: “High-end brands don’t have a monopoly on legacy!”

In an interview with Europa Star, CEO Matthias Breschan discusses three key points which he believes are crucial to Longines’ future… and how he intends to (...)

Ludwig Oechslin: “The Freak opened up decades of possibility”

Ludwig Oechslin: “The Freak opened up decades of possibility”

For a series of portraits celebrating the Prix Gaïa, presented by the Musée International d’Horlogerie (MIH), we met the incomparable Dr. Ludwig Oechslin at (...)

Unimatic x Exquisite Timepieces Modello Uno ref. U1S-T-GMT-ET

Unimatic x Exquisite Timepieces Modello Uno ref. U1S-T-GMT-ET

The new model by the Italian microbrand is a titanium dual-time dive watch developed in collaboration with Exquisite Timepieces, one of the most exclusive (...)