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KUKI - A Family Company with an Innovative Tradition

KUKI - A Family Company with an Innovative Tradition

The KUKI company from Slovenia, an EU member state, has been making leather watch straps since 1963. A family tradition of 50 years has ranked KUKI among (...)

DeWitt, when the emotion comes from the quality

DeWitt, when the emotion comes from the quality

June - July 2012

“The only rational aspect of luxury is quality,” as Jérôme de Witt likes to say. “For the rest, it is only the irrational, the emotional, the (...)

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New (and nearly new) brands at BaselWorld

New (and nearly new) brands at BaselWorld

The explosive growth experienced by the watch industry last year means that new brands continue to spring up like mushrooms and the imposing construction (...)

New creative impulses in ladies' watch design

New creative impulses in ladies’ watch design

There was certainly no shortage in the creativity applied to new ladies’ watch designs at BaselWorld this year, which include the use of new materials, new (...)

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 1

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 1

Reminiscences of a BaselWorld that left me somewhat bemused, a little frustrated and, for some inexplicable reason, dissatisfied. Naturally, there were (...)

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 2

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 2

Mechanical marvels – Breitling, Bell & Ross, Maurice Lacroix

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 3

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 3

Modex Time & Jewelry, Ltd., Ritmo Mundo

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 4

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 4

deLaCour, Gc, Guess

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 5

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 5

Not to be forgotten … – Blacksand, Boucheron, Ressence, Frederique Constant, Peter Tanisman, Franc Vila, Luminox, Pilo & Co Genève, David Van Heim, (...)

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 6

Monsters, machines, mechanical marvels and masterpieces – Part 6

Sports watches by price – Part 1

Sports watches by price – Part 1

As Europa Star’s resident sports watch authority, I keep a special eye out for sports watches. This year, I was charged to group the new sports watches in (...)

Sports watches by price – Part 2

Sports watches by price – Part 2

Hamilton, Luminox, Dodane, Reactor, Oris, Maurice Lacroix, Ball Watch, Edox, Rado, EJE Watches, Bell & Ross

Sports watches by price – Part 3

Sports watches by price – Part 3

5000 - 10,000 Euros: In this price range, customers can start getting into more high profile and recognisable brands.

No price hikes at Tissot

No price hikes at Tissot

Our recent coverage of Tissot has shown that the brand is well equipped for future growth, having inaugurated a new space-age logistics centre in Le Locle (...)

Fortis celebrates its 100th anniversary

Fortis celebrates its 100th anniversary

Ten years after he first set up the Fortis watchmaking factory opposite the railway station in Grenchen in 1912, Walter Vogt met English watchmaker John (...)

Philip Stein – Operating at an altogether different frequency

Philip Stein – Operating at an altogether different frequency

Since securing the worldwide exclusivity for the use of Natural Frequency Technology in luxury products, the Philip Stein watch brand has gone from (...)

FIYTA – Vertical take-off!

FIYTA – Vertical take-off!

Composed of three characters “飞,” “亚,” and “达,” FIYTA is pronounced “fi-ya-ta”. Based in Shenzhen, on the 20th floor of the FIYTA Hi-Tech Building, the brand has been (...)

Speake-Marin – Watchmaking renaissance

Speake-Marin – Watchmaking renaissance

The times they are a’changing for Peter Speake-Marin. He is moving away from the focus on Peter Speake-Marin the watchmaker and putting it on Speake-Marin (...)

Alpina – Retelling the pilot story

Alpina – Retelling the pilot story

Alpina made quite a splash with its well-designed and extraordinarily-priced pilot’s collection introduced last year. A unique mixture of a vintage feel in (...)