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Richemont: a corporate culture in question

Richemont: a corporate culture in question

CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES

The travails of the Richemont group more broadly reflect a corporate culture that seems somewhat out of sync with an ever more horizontal and complex (...)

GPHG: watch brands can submit their applications now

GPHG: watch brands can submit their applications now

It’s time to participate! Swiss and international watch brands are invited to enter the 2020 edition of the GPHG via a new digital platform. The cut-off (...)

Patek Philippe: a few lessons on resilience

Patek Philippe: a few lessons on resilience

RETROSPECTIVE

Resilience. Scientifically speaking, resilience is a value (expressed in joules per cm2) used in physics to represent the resistance of a metal to shocks (...)

The watch industry's mirror

The watch industry’s mirror

EDITORIAL

Let’s be honest: in the ocean of economic, social and societal catastrophes, watchmaking is no more than a drop of water. But drops of water become rivers, (...)

JCK announces virtual event in August 2020

JCK announces virtual event in August 2020

FAIRS

The American show announced its plans to launch “JCK Virtual 2020”, intended to be the largest and most comprehensive virtual jewelry trade event in this (...)

Watch industry: surviving Covid-19

Watch industry: surviving Covid-19

GUEST COLUMN

During the last few years, the Swiss watch industry has been faced with a growing number of challenges: shifting consumer interests, the emergence of the (...)

Talking resilience with Ariel Adams

Talking resilience with Ariel Adams

INTERVIEW

America has been the country to suffer the biggest blow from the pandemic. Before it struck, the country was on the way to reclaim its spot as the number (...)

Hong Kong: a “crucial, life-and-death moment”

Hong Kong: a “crucial, life-and-death moment”

RETAIL

Retail sales of watch and jewellery in specialized stores and department stores in Hong Kong continued to free-fall in April 2020 (-74.5% year-on-year), (...)

Instagram Live: social media show their limits

Instagram Live: social media show their limits

CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES

Numerous players in the watch industry have responded swiftly to the absence of physical encounters by increasing the number of sessions and interviews (...)

China: “Revenge saving, not revenge spending”

China: “Revenge saving, not revenge spending”

GUEST COLUMN

A cofounder of the well-known Chinese horological club, the Shanghai Watch Gang, Kelvin Sa shared with us his personal notebook, shedding some light on the (...)

Initium: converting people to watches

Initium: converting people to watches

ANNIVERSARY

Five years after holding its first horological initiation class in Switzerland, the startup can pride itself on having modernised the induction process to (...)

François-Henry Bennahmias: “Many changes are coming our way”

François-Henry Bennahmias: “Many changes are coming our way”

INTERVIEW

The date of this interview with the CEO of Audemars Piguet is 22 April – an important detail in this period of pandemic, when all over the world the (...)

“Kintsugi” or the art of resilience

“Kintsugi” or the art of resilience

EDITORIAL

Our new print issue is devoted to the theme of resilience for the watch world in light of the pandemic. The imagery in this special is based around the (...)

New “Resilience” issue

New “Resilience” issue

EUROPA STAR

The new issue of Europa Star is devoted to the theme of “resilience”. Resilience of people, brands, technologies and networks in the face of a pandemic with (...)

Watches and cars: a no-nonsense comparison

Watches and cars: a no-nonsense comparison

INTERVIEW

On a superficial level, the worlds of watchmaking and automobiles are often compared through the many partnerships forged between the two industries. But (...)

Tomorrow, a digital twin for watches

Tomorrow, a digital twin for watches

BLOCKCHAIN

The pandemic crisis that the watch industry is going through is also accelerating its digital transition. Among the most promising elements of this is the (...)

Journalists and watchmakers: how to fix our relationship

Journalists and watchmakers: how to fix our relationship

EDITORIAL

The coronavirus crisis calls for introspection and change. The watch media must go through this reconstruction process, as well as the brands themselves, (...)

After-sales: the best way through the crisis?

After-sales: the best way through the crisis?

INDUSTRY

At a time when the coronavirus has brought the watch industry to a standstill, shouldn’t we take advantage of the situation to pamper existing customers (...)

Watchmaking's hesitant solidarity

Watchmaking’s hesitant solidarity

CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES

Numerous private initiatives from wealthy individuals or global companies are today making up for the failures of states that did not foresee the extent of (...)

A new page waiting to be written

A new page waiting to be written

CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES

A page has been turned with the definitive break between Baselworld and its most loyal exhibitors. The regrouping around a single event in Geneva is the (...)