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Greubel Forsey at the foothills

Greubel Forsey at the foothills

A new GMT model will be the star of the SIHH 2012 for Greubel Forsey. It’s a model that signals a certain maturity of the brand’s unique tourbillon (...)

Watchmakers & The metaphor of the tree

Watchmakers & The metaphor of the tree

The most highly prized metaphor among watchmakers today is that of the tree. As you read through our pages, you will find it mentioned in several places, (...)

LAKIN@LARGE - Be sincere, even if you don't mean it!

LAKIN@LARGE - Be sincere, even if you don’t mean it!

These are really tough times aren’t they? The economic situation in Greece, Spain and Italy, not to mention Ireland, is as close to catastrophic as can be (...)

Richard Mille in Harrod's new Fine Watch Room

Richard Mille in Harrod’s new Fine Watch Room

Richard Mille has unveiled its first UK Boutique in the prestigious new Fine Watch Room at Harrods. The 18 square metre space will showcase a complete (...)

Frustrating digital realities in mainland China

Frustrating digital realities in mainland China

Every serious luxury watch brand knows that quickly establishing a presence in Mainland China is a must if they want to weather the economic storms coming (...)

First Jordi Swiss Icon flagship store opens in Zurich

First Jordi Swiss Icon flagship store opens in Zurich

On 25 November 2011 the first flagship store of JORDI Swiss Icon, the new brand of Michel Jordi, opened on Niederdorfstrasse in (...)

NOMOS, doing things differently

NOMOS, doing things differently

At Baselworld 2010 the German watch brand NOMOS from Glashütte surprised a lot of people and irritated others with their brand-new booth. The two-storey (...)

Looking beyond Facebook and Twitter

Looking beyond Facebook and Twitter

Nowadays it’s hard to find a business manager who isn’t at least somewhat familiar with or aware of Facebook and Twitter. Facebook with its mass appeal and (...)

Breguet opens a new US boutique in Las Vegas

Breguet opens a new US boutique in Las Vegas

After New York (Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue), as well as Los Angeles and Miami, Breguet now has a fifth showcase in the US at the Bellagio Hotel and (...)

110 Years of Dubois Dépraz

110 Years of Dubois Dépraz

For those who need to know, Dubois Dépraz is famous, a complications manufacturer of extremely high quality, working with some of the best brand names in (...)

Harry Winston celebrates grand opening of newest salon in Dubai

Harry Winston celebrates grand opening of newest salon in Dubai

Harry Winston, the legendary jeweller to the stars and international luxury brand, celebrated the opening of its first salon in Dubai along with Ahmed (...)

First Dutch jeweller with an mCommerce website

First Dutch jeweller with an mCommerce website

Physical stores, website with e-commerce functionalities and now also a mobile website with m-commerce. The Amsterdam-based Ace Jewelers was the first (...)

Jaeger-LeCoultre's 1881 Heritage Boutique in Hong Kong

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 1881 Heritage Boutique in Hong Kong

Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils exceptional “Proto Zero” models in support of Hong Kong’s “End Child Sexual Abuse” Foundation

Located at one of the most prestigious luxury hubs of Asia, the 1881 Heritage boutique is the third Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique in Hong Kong. It is also the (...)

The Original from Glashütte

The Original from Glashütte

If you believe that fine watches necessarily need to come from Switzerland, then you are mistaken. The small hamlet of Glashütte near Dresden in eastern (...)

Adieu old friend – Remembering Michael Balfour

Adieu old friend – Remembering Michael Balfour

You don’t invent people like Michael Balfour. He was an original, the incarnate of how the non-English see a slightly eccentric Englishman – although his (...)

Tutima's “hommage” as a symbol of its new ambitions

Tutima’s “hommage” as a symbol of its new ambitions

The Tutima brand has just presented the first totally German-made minute repeater, and never before realised in the city of Glashütte, where it recently (...)

King Fook, Hong Kong

King Fook, Hong Kong

Hong Kong has become Swiss Watch central, a shopping paradise for watch lovers. While covering the Hong Kong Watch and Clock Fair for Europa Star, I (...)

The first Patek Philippe watch with a regulator dial

The first Patek Philippe watch with a regulator dial

Patek Philippe recently presented a new timepiece, never before featured by the Geneva manufacture—a “regulator” type dial that also includes an annual (...)

The 150th Anniversary of Junghans

The 150th Anniversary of Junghans

Some 650km south-west of Germany’s watchmaking hub in Glashütte, nestled in the Black Forest, lies the town of Schramberg – the home of what was once the (...)

The Lange Akademie, getting to know the tree and its roots

The Lange Akademie, getting to know the tree and its roots

Every self-respecting brand seeks to train, as well as possible, their most influential “ambassadors”—those individuals who, by virtue of being in the stores, (...)