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What do we actually know about Shinola?

What do we actually know about Shinola?

TRAVEL NOTES 🇺🇸 DETROIT

The adventure continues! We’re still in Detroit, the American city determined to rise from the industrial ashes. At Shinola, they produce watches, bikes (...)

What the heck does that damn consumer want?

What the heck does that damn consumer want?

THE MYTHS OF COMMERCE (PART 1/5)

We are at a turning point in the history of retail. Many youngsters propose new models they deem “customer-focused” in the digital age. But their focus has (...)

Business is booming for Dallas retailer Timeless

Business is booming for Dallas retailer Timeless

TRAVEL NOTES 🇺🇸 TEXAS

Cruising along thanks to industry, farming and oil, the Texan capital is morphing into a choice destination for watch buyers. One retailer is doing (...)

Merci: the trendy Paris watchmakers

Merci: the trendy Paris watchmakers

FRANCE

The LMM-01 designed by Paris boutique Merci soon gained an illustrious customer – the president of France, Emmanuel Macron. No doubt he saw something of (...)

Interview with Thomas Meier, Glashütte Original

Interview with Thomas Meier, Glashütte Original

“THE GOAL IS TO MAKE OUR IDENTITY CLEAR”

The Swatch Group’s German brand is seeking to get back into the global watchmaking spotlight with models that are a bit out of the ordinary. Europa Star met (...)

Interview with Franz Linder, CEO of Mido

Interview with Franz Linder, CEO of Mido

“WE’RE EXPLORING ALL THE POSSIBILITIES E-COMMERCE OFFERS”

The brand with the Spanish name (“I measure”) came into being exactly one century ago, in 1918. Historically well-established in Latin America, the Swatch (...)

Interview with Laurent Perves, Vacheron Constantin

Interview with Laurent Perves, Vacheron Constantin

ARCADE EUROPA STAR

Vacheron Constantin’s launch of the Fiftysix line at the latest SIHH had its name on everyone’s lips. This coincided with a generational change at the helm (...)

Great Britain: a horological superpower for 200 years

Great Britain: a horological superpower for 200 years

GUEST COLUMN

For about 200 years before the 20th century, Great Britain boasted undisputed supremacy of watchmaking, thanks to the British Empire’s global maritime (...)

Interview with Christian Lattmann, CEO of Jaquet Droz

Interview with Christian Lattmann, CEO of Jaquet Droz

On the occasion of its 280th anniversary, Jaquet Droz is stepping up its contemporary exploration of historical luxury watchmaking, and focusing on one (...)

New materials: genuine progress or marketing hype?

New materials: genuine progress or marketing hype?

EDITORIAL

Suddenly, an anxiety installs: and if the multiples announcements about new materials, particular applied for watch casing, constituted actually a watch (...)

Breitling: universal ambition

Breitling: universal ambition

CASE STUDY

Georges Kern has delivered his verdict on Breitling, acquired by the CVC Partners fund and placed in his firm hand last year. The consequences were drastic (...)

Interview with Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC

Interview with Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC

ARCADE EUROPA STAR

He’s faced with the daunting task of succeeding Georges Kern. We meet Christoph Grainger-Herr, the young new CEO of IWC who comes to the engineering brand (...)

Why Audemars Piguet is getting in the hotel game

Why Audemars Piguet is getting in the hotel game

Ever dreamed of spending the night in a hotel developed by a luxury watch brand? Soon you’ll be able to do just that, and enjoy beautiful Swiss nature at (...)

Surprise! Most people in Hong Kong don't care about watches…

Surprise! Most people in Hong Kong don’t care about watches…

GUEST COLUMN

The founder of the online retail platform for independent watch brands Skolorr, Sky Sit shares with our readers her vision of the industry. This first (...)

Mechanical watchmaking leaves Huygens behind

Mechanical watchmaking leaves Huygens behind

REVOLUTION

The oscillator of the new Zenith Defy Lab, perfected by Guy Sémon, CEO of TAG Heuer and of the LVMH Watch Division’s R&D Institute, and his team of (...)

Watchwords - it's later than you think

Watchwords - it’s later than you think

I became aware that sundial mottos were a thing earlier this year, listening to the wonderful and disturbing podcast S-Town.

12 disruptions in the watchmaking industry

12 disruptions in the watchmaking industry

STYLE, CHANNEL, LAB

This spring, we focus on the 12 upheavals facing the watch industry today. Divided in three sections – STYLE, CHANNEL, LAB – the report dives deeper into the (...)

How digital democratised luxury

How digital democratised luxury

STUDY

Luxury today is open to more and more people, with digital technology having had a huge impact on this change. Piers Schmidt reports on how he believes the (...)

Farfetch: the online retail giant targets China

Farfetch: the online retail giant targets China

AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSÉ NEVES

Currently the largest online luxury fashion retail platform in the world, Farfetch has been revolutionising the online luxury shopping experience since its (...)

The hybridisation of high-end watches

The hybridisation of high-end watches

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Hybrid designs combining mechanics and electronics is one path being explored in chronometric watchmaking. But beyond precision, hybridisation may also be (...)