In 2010, Maurice Lacroix launched its Roue Carrée, an innovation that was spectacular in its “simplicity”, offering an interplay of shapes and movement on the (...)

Did you know that the first G-Shock was presented in April 1984? Almost 30 years later tens of millions of these watches have been sold worldwide but the (...)

Dieter Meier, founder of the legendary electronic music group Yello, a precursor of the techno movement, conceptual artist, film director, former (...)

With a touch of humour, Shinji Hattori, the chairman and CEO of the Japanese watchmaker, says that he thought for a moment that “BaselWorld must have been (...)

Les Ambassadeurs, founded 1964, is one of Switzerland’s finest retailers. They bill themselves as “The Leading House of Leading Brands” and have four stores – (...)

At the time of writing, we do not yet know the name of Jean-Christophe Babin’s successor at the head of TAG Heuer, but he or she will arrive at the controls (...)

Zenith achieved sales of around CHF 150 million in 2012 after selling around 25,000 watches (including 100 high-end pieces like the Colombus) and has just (...)

By the time you read this, we Europeans will have once again messed about with time and put our clocks forward an hour to benefit from the joys of extra (...)

Schaffhausen-based IWC this week opened its first store in Italy on Piazza di Spagna 28, in the heart of the nation’s capital. “Hardly anyone goes to Rome (...)

With 200,000 watches sold in 2012 (at an average retail price of about CHF 2,000, with price tags ranging from CHF 850 to 5,000 and the core range situated (...)