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Mechanical smartwatches

Mechanical smartwatches

CONNECTION

In rapid succession, starting with an advance announcement, the start-up X-One and Frederique Constant both recently presented mechanical smartwatches. A (...)

The Second Take: Zenith, F.P. Journe, Harry Winston, and Adexe

The Second Take: Zenith, F.P. Journe, Harry Winston, and Adexe

This week in the news: Zenith in blue, F.P. Journe’s art and science of watchmaking, Harry Winston in vogue with vintage, and introducing new British brand (...)

Watchmaking materials: a historical primer

Watchmaking materials: a historical primer

Ever since the dawn of mechanical watchmaking, its base materials have been copper alloys and ferrous materials. As evidenced by the astrarium completed by (...)

Czapek aiming for lovers' “Eternity” with latest release

Czapek aiming for lovers’ “Eternity” with latest release

What’s yours is mine, as they say. The resurgent Swiss watchmaker introduces a five model series of watches within its Quai des Bergues collection meant for (...)

Approaches to innovation

Approaches to innovation

COMPARING THE EXAMPLES OF PANERAI AND ROGER DUBUIS

Although both part of the same group, Officine Panerai and Roger Dubuis have two very different approaches to research and to innovation in general, (...)

The Second Take: Omega, Ulysse Nardin, Fossil, and more

The Second Take: Omega, Ulysse Nardin, Fossil, and more

This week in the news, Omega revisits its past, Ulysse Nardin celebrates America, Swiss researchers develop watch components from diamonds, and Fossil (...)

The quirkiest alarm clocks

The quirkiest alarm clocks

SUMMER DIARY

The most ignored, despised, or at least forgotten timepiece is the humble but essential alarm clock – probably because it is also a totally pragmatic object (...)

Portfolio 'New materials'

Portfolio ’New materials’

New materials free the imagination and offer new creative fields to the watchmaking industry. They bring color, impose transparency, offer lightness (...)

Making sense of Ulysse Nardin's Marine Torpilleur Collection

Making sense of Ulysse Nardin’s Marine Torpilleur Collection

The luxury watchmaker has released two new timepieces in classic black and gunmetal grey. They are clean, contemporary, and priced very differently - a (...)

Europa Star Chapter 3/18 global issue, out now

Europa Star Chapter 3/18 global issue, out now

Check out the latest issue of Europa Star, where we explore everything from new materials, vintage watches, the vitality of national markets, and much (...)

Richard Mille: material boy

Richard Mille: material boy

NEW MATERIALS

The recurring theme at Richard Mille is the reconciliation of lightness and toughness. And that they achieve by bringing new materials to watchmaking, from (...)

Bell & Ross off to the races with Renault F1 partnership

Bell & Ross off to the races with Renault F1 partnership

The French watchmaker presents a new model of its BR V2-94 R.S.18, a sporty chronograph in a rounded case that’s a departure from previous designs from its (...)

Introducing two new Nomos “white siren” neomatiks

Introducing two new Nomos “white siren” neomatiks

Right in time for summer, the German watchmaker introduces two “white siren” models within its Aqua series: the very versatile Ahoi neomatik and Club (...)

It could have been a great advertisement

It could have been a great advertisement

VINTAGEMANIA

It was a sunny day on the Atlantic coast in France. Mr. X (pseudonym) thought it was a great opportunity to practice his swing on the golf course nearby. (...)

Revisiting DeWitt's Academia Skeleton

Revisiting DeWitt’s Academia Skeleton [Video]

Full of character and with an impressive movement to boot, the Academia Skeleton is another strong component of the Swiss watchmaker’s avant-garde Academia (...)

A closer look at the Alpina Seastrong Diver GMT

A closer look at the Alpina Seastrong Diver GMT

The Swiss brand has introduced six new models to the collection, but are the watches more than just diving instruments?

New materials: a strategic challenge

New materials: a strategic challenge

The Swiss mechanical watchmaking “revival” has essentially entailed a process of renewing existing mechanical skills. The task was to show that mechanical (...)

The Second Take, with Linde Werdelin, Louis Moinet, and David Daper

The Second Take, with Linde Werdelin, Louis Moinet, and David Daper

This week in the news, Linde Werdelin gets personal with watches and wine, Louis Moinet wins two Good Design awards, and David Daper joins the affordable (...)

Rebellion at the World Cup

Rebellion at the World Cup

We’re talking about Rebellion the watch brand, not armed resistance, who will be represented in Russia by Nigeria’s head coach Gernot Rohr and his Predator (...)

The Urwerk UR-105, and how the Catholic Church shaped watchmaking

The Urwerk UR-105, and how the Catholic Church shaped watchmaking

A watch fit for a Pope? The latest release from the creative Swiss watchmaker, called the “Kryptonite”, is inspired by the historic “wandering hour” luminous (...)