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Letter from France: The watch that re-emerged from the depths

Letter from France:
The watch that re-emerged from the depths

The boss of Hublot, Jean-Claude Biver, financed the “Antikythera” project, whose name is derived from the famous astronomical mechanism of ancient (...)

Postcard from Australia: Bausele watches arrive with a unique sense of style

Postcard from Australia:
Bausele watches arrive with a unique sense of style

World famous Bondi Beach, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Ayers Rock, Sydney Opera House are all Australian iconic landmarks in the serious traveller’s diary. (...)

The Geneva Time Exhibition moves upmarket

The Geneva Time Exhibition moves upmarket

In its fourth year, the Geneva Time Exhibition (GTE) will be presenting itself in a different light, with an emphasis on quality rather than (...)

Geneva's winter show(s)

Geneva’s winter show(s)

The first major international event of the watch calendar year, the SIHH, is a must-see show, since it is here that the major lines are drawn for the year (...)

USA & Canada cover story: DeWitt's Golden Afternoon

USA & Canada cover story: DeWitt’s Golden Afternoon

DeWitt’s intricate Golden Afternoon ladies’ model draws its inspiration from the Pre-Raphaelite movement in order to pay a fitting tribute to the women for (...)

Raymond Weil, maestro of independence

Raymond Weil, maestro of independence

“Raymond Weil stands out because of its own efforts and not because we are attached to a large group,” insists Olivier Bernheim, who heads up the family (...)

China's sphere of interest: Europa Star's Hong Kong show report

China’s sphere of interest: Europa Star’s Hong Kong show report

After a long night flight from Geneva to Hong Kong, via London, I arrived in the HKG International Airport and familiar faces welcomed me – watches from (...)

Hautlence, at a strategic turning point

Hautlence, at a strategic turning point

Guillaume Tetu, now the only captain aboard the Hautlence “ship” has always put his cards squarely on the table. After the rough seas of the economic crisis (...)

Blacksand readies for take-off

Blacksand readies for take-off

Freed from the constraints of the family firm, Alain Mouawad launches a new brand with a focus on the minutest attention to detail in a design that adds a (...)

Bedat & Co's first ladies' chronograph

Bedat & Co’s first ladies’ chronograph

Bedat & Co. cleverly bypass the need to name their collections by using numbers for them. This has the advantage of making them easily memorable in any (...)

The even more remarkable return of Tudor

The even more remarkable return of Tudor

Starting in 2009, Tudor, whose name was registered in 1926, but whose real birth took place in 1946, has been strongly repositioned. This repositioning (...)

Emile Chouriet is a family firm with a difference

Emile Chouriet is a family firm with a difference

Jean Depéry comes from a family which can trace its history in watchmaking back to the 1700s, yet he chose the name of one of his ancestors’ customers, Emile (...)

Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier proposes two new basic movements

Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier proposes two new basic movements

Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier—which belongs to the Sandoz Family Foundation and which has grown at the sides of Parmigiani for which it is the main (...)

Ulysse Nardin, the credo of innovation and independence

Ulysse Nardin, the credo of innovation and independence

Following the death of Rolf Schnyder, its president and CEO, the Ulysse Nardin manufacture is continuing along the path of independence and innovation. (...)

Louis Erard's very competitive neo-classic offer

Louis Erard’s very competitive neo-classic offer

When in 2003 at the head of a group of investors, Alain Spinedi (ex-Sector, ex-Swatch) took over the reins at the Louis Erard brand (founded in 1931), he (...)

Kari Voutilainen, happy watchmaker, happy man

Kari Voutilainen, happy watchmaker, happy man

In 2009, we described the ateliers of Voutilainen, in Môtiers in the Val de Travers, as a ‘one-man manufacture’. It was a way of saying how the Finnish (...)

When François-Paul Journe goes sporty

When François-Paul Journe goes sporty

Until now, François-Paul Journe has never made a sports watch. “For the pure and simple reason that I don’t do sports,” he explains (...)

Laurent Ferrier, the right watch at the right time

Laurent Ferrier, the right watch at the right time

Any watchmaker worthy of the name must obviously master the ‘hidden springs’ of time, or in other words, the mechanical measurement of time. A question of (...)

Jaeger-LeCoultre Special - Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

Jaeger-LeCoultre Special - Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

Jaeger-LeCoultre Special - Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire 40.5 - The classicism of round watches - Rendez-Vous - Grande Reverso Lady - Grande Reverso - Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea (...)

Jaeger-LeCoultre – Reverso The high-precision path from icon to cult-object

Jaeger-LeCoultre – Reverso The high-precision path from icon to cult-object

Reverso

When César de Trey and Jacques-David LeCoultre presented the Reverso watch in 1931, did they have any idea that they had given birth to one of the very few (...)