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WEBThe traditionally tech-driven Japanese watch industry is crafting a gradual upgrade towards emotion-based luxury. Meanwhile, Swiss watch brands are looking for ways to seduce a new generation less keen on luxury shopping than their parents.
The new escapement by Audemars Piguet, a turning point (...)
WEBThe saga of watchmaking is intimately linked to the evolution of an essential component of the watch, the escapement. As we know, the escapement maintains and counts the oscillations of the watch's regulator organ, the spring barrel. A distributor of energy stored in the barrel, which comes to it via the gear train made up of the centre wheel, third wheel, fourth wheel, and the escape wheel ...
Junghans: a 160-year history and new models - EUROPA STAR
WEBTHE 160-YEAR HISTORY OF UHRENFABRIK JUNGHANS. 1861 In collaboration with his brother-in-law, Jakob Zeller-Tobler, Erhard Junghans establishes “Zeller & Junghans“ on the 14th April, 1861, as a business producing clock parts. Initially manufacturing components for Black Forest clocks, the first of their own timepieces appeared in 1866.
Baselworld is back: the main announcements - EUROPA STAR
WEBAnnounced from March 31 to April 4, 2022, the event is intended to be “an important supplement and additional platform for the exchange of information between all the players in the industry, including those who did not participate in Baselworld in the past.”. During the press conference, Michel Loris-Melikoff announced that the prices for ...
Louis Erard and the spirit of time - europastar.com
WEBUnusually for a watch company and prior to introducing the brand’s latest ‘Anniversary’ collection, Alain Spinedi gave a blow-by-blow account of how Louis Erard came to position itself in the Haute Horlogerie sector with mechanical watches surprisingly priced in the 600 to 2500 Swiss francs price range. Having found the finance for the development of the company, Spinedi prepared a ...
Lab - HOPTROFF - The world's most accurate watch - EUROPA STAR
WEBFor a more down-to-earth, real-world comparison, Hoptroff’s No.10 pocket watch offers an accuracy of 0.0015 seconds per year, which is over 2.4 million times better than the COSC chronometer requirements. The lucky owners of a Hoptroff No. 10 will get much more than a highly-accurate watch, though.
CHRONO4 TEMERARIO by Eberhard - EUROPA STAR
WEBCHRONO4 TEMERARIO by Eberhard. Stainless steel tonneau-shaped case (55 x 37 mm) equipped with a Calibre EB 250 mechanical automatic chronograph movement (Base ETA 2894). 4 vertical counters: small seconds, 24 hours, 12 hours and 30 minutes, start/stop push-button at 11 o’clock, zero-setting function pushbutton at 1 o’clock, protected crown ...
The Schaumburg MooN Watch wins “Watch of the Year”
WEBThe 2015 Watch of the Year Award – presented by the Salon Exceptional Watches (SEW) – was awarded to Schaumburg ’s MooN Watch Galaxy, after winning the public vote. Among the brands competing for this year’s award were heavyweights like Parmigiani, TAG Heuer, Franck Muller, and Carl F. Bucherer, among others.
Strategic changes at Bulgari – An exclusive interview with (...)
WEBFT: As you know, Bulgari has made great changes to its watchmaking pole. Up to the end of 2009, the group owned a portfolio of three distinct watch brands: Bulgari, Daniel Roth and Gérald Genta, attached to the manufacture of the same name. These two brands have benefited from total independence in relation to the group.
Meia Lua, a new watch brand from Portugal - EUROPA STAR
WEBBased in Lisbon, the independent watch brand presents a new collection of automatic timepieces, called Callisto. eia Lua, which stands for “half moon” in Portuguese, was founded in Lisbon by watch enthusiast Gonçalo Lopes. After its first series Inception, the brand is now presenting its new collection, Callisto, with the aim of developing ...