A small remark made in passing in one of our last editorials, raising a question as to the health of Maurice Lacroix following an announcement of a (...)

The Russian watch market is unlike most others and at first glance is somewhat complicated. The system usually entails a company importing watches and then (...)

One of my watch journalist friends, Timm Delfs, just took over managing a boutique in Basel, specialized not in watches, but in… sundials. (...)

The retailing scene here is buoyant. Optimism for the immediate futureis generally felt, as last year’s new models, presented in Basel and (...)

Italy holds the fourth place in world markets for Swiss Made watch exports, after the USA, Hong Kong, and Japan, but before France, (...)

The beginning of the Russian love affair with horology dates back to 1404 when the first chiming clock was built into the Kremlin tower in Moscow by a (...)

Russia has seen a few revolutions in its time – not least Lenin’s October Revolution and Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and (...)

Under the impetus of Thierry Nataf, Zenith is engaged on a double ‘mission’: remodelling its machinery and tools and re-conquering its place amongst the (...)

After a staggering twenty-four hours in British Airways and Qantas ‘planes and another five or six going beltless and shoeless through the various security (...)

While all watchmakers (or rather watchmaking enterprises) are rushing to produce ‘complications’, ‘grand complications’ and spinning tourbillons, one (...)