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How's Business - world retailers respond

How's Business - world retailers respond

As the BaselWorld and SIHH shows opened, we here at Europa Star thought it would be a good time to find out, directly from retailers around the (...)

Horological machines

Horological machines

Where does our never-ending fascination for ‘machines’ come from? This attraction holds true for all machines, large and small, locomotives or (...)

Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2006/2007 - Watchmaking runs the risk of excess

Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2006/2007 - Watchmaking runs the risk of excess

What a glorious year! Do we even need to repeat the numbers, proclaimed loud and clear just about everywhere?

Innovators from around the world

Innovators from around the world

The renewal of watchmaking is not only coming from young master watchmakers, as we might expect...

Brand buzz in the blogosphere

The Internet, for most, is defined as the information super highway that has the answer to almost any question imaginable at your fingertips. And (...)

As time goes by …

As time goes by …

A brief up-date of some of the recently launched and re-launched watch brands.

Red Army Watches - Seeing red in Singapore

Red Army Watches - Seeing red in Singapore

Red Army Watches is a watch retailer (two stores and counting) in Singapore utilizing a highly innovative retail concept: they only sell Russian watches (...)

H. Moser & Cie, going straight to the essential

H. Moser & Cie, going straight to the essential

Among the many launches and re-launches of watch brands that have taken place recently, one attracted immediate attention...

Faces for our 80th anniversary

Faces for our 80th anniversary

The watch industry is, above all, a vast community of men and women who work, day-in day-out, at imagining, elaborating, (...)

Does anybody need a new watch brand? Marketing challenges for new watch brands

New watch brands face an uphill marketing battle.

Eighty years of service for the watchmaking of tomorrow

Eighty years of service for the watchmaking of tomorrow

This year represents the 80th anniversary of Europa Star, and we still have ‘all of our teeth’ as they say. Yes, 80 years ago, the foundations of (...)

New watch brands - great risk and great possible reward

New watch brands - great risk and great possible reward

New brands are the double-edged sword of the watch retailing business.

Kirchhofer - Haute horlogerie between the lakes

Kirchhofer - Haute horlogerie between the lakes

Kirchhofer, a well-known retailer in Switzerland and owner of the highest watch store in Europe, inaugurates a brand new luxury store, Haute (...)

The heart-warming story of Europa Star

The heart-warming story of Europa Star

100% SWISS MADE BY SWISS MAIDS?

The Swiss Made label in watchmaking has been the source of all sorts of uses and abuses.

Letter from Italy: The latest trends – Italian style

Letter from Italy: The latest trends – Italian style

The latest trends coming out of Italy seem to be related to the iconoclastic and sardonic aspects of the Italian character.

Letter from France: Bell & Ross, born from a businessman and a designer

Letter from France: Bell & Ross, born from a businessman and a designer

Bell & Ross – it’s a little like the movies,...

Louis Erard and the spirit of time

Louis Erard and the spirit of time

Founded in 1931 and re-launched in 2003 after a long period of relative silence, Louis Erard now appears extremely healthy under the direction of Alain (...)

The secrets of online advertising

The secrets of online advertising

Despite a rather tight general advertising environment, the Internet is showing results that are downright enviable. Online advertising is in full (...)

Moving watches: an in-depth look at worldwide watch distribution

Moving watches: an in-depth look at worldwide watch distribution

Distributing watches around the world is no easy task. Customs, ways of doing business, taxes and import duties and more vary from country to (...)

The mechanical and financial heart of watchmaking

The mechanical and financial heart of watchmaking

In a recent book of interviews with the journalist Friedemann Bartu ‘Au-delà de la saga Swatch’ Nicolas Hayek laid a few cards on the table concerning (...)