All About Swiss Watch Manufactures and Swiss Watch Movements
Aug 21, 2007
There are a variety of fine watches produced today by a multitude of companies, both old and young.  Part of the appeal of luxury mechanical watchmaking is in the complexity and fine details of the ticking mechanisms which make these marvels work.  Within the specialized market that luxury watches represent, few terms raise the pulse of the....

The Breguet Grandes Complications Watch Collection
Jun 29, 2007
The Breguet Classiques Grandes Complications watch collection embodies the horological essence of the legendary watchmaker, Abraham-Louis Breguet.  Paying homage to this genius, whose fertile mind invented the tourbillon and modernized the minute repeating mechanism (among many other important innovations), these Breguet watches display some of the most....

How's Business - world retailers respond - Part 1
Apr 25, 2007
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 world, how the watch business is doing. We contacted the best retailers to see what was happening on the retail floor and what trends they were seeing in the worldwide watch market. Karen and Denis Boulle,....

Swatch Group Posts 'Best Results of All Time'
Apr 01, 2007
Swatch Group, the world's largest watchmaker, posted a 12.3 percent gain in gross sales for 2006, totaling about $4.04 billion. A Jan. 22 announcement from the Swiss watchmaker called the results its best “of all time.” The most substantial sales growth was among luxury watches. Blancpain, Breguet, Glashütte Original, and Omega all enjoyed....

New Brands find a niche
Apr 01, 2007
HD3 - Jorg Hysek's design think tank HD3 is the second brand Jorg Hysek has developed, after the eponymous brand he recently left. Hysek started out as an independent designer for some of the best known watches of all time: the Marine for Breguet, the Kirium for TAG Heuer, Shanta for Ebel, AD 2000 for Dunhill and many more. Then, he started his own brand....

Swatch Group reports 'best results of all time'
Jan 22, 2007
The Swatch Group AG, the world’s largest watchmaker, posted a 12.3 percent gain in gross sales in its 2006 sales, totaling 5.05 billion Swiss francs (about $4.04 billion). This will lead to an above-average increase in operating profits, which will be announced later, it said. These are the “best Group results of all time,” said the Swiss....

IWC, Vacheron, and Patek Rated as Most Prestigious Luxury Watch Brands
Jan 17, 2007
Ultra-wealthy American consumers rate IWC is the number one watch brand, followed closely by Vacheron Constantin, and Patek Philippe, according to a Luxury's Institute watch survey. "The timepieces made by IWC are secrets shared by only a very few in the world; their workmanship and quality is unquestioned, their craftsmen are artisans of time....

Antiquorum: 14th & 15th October 2006 Auction Geneva Results
Oct 20, 2006
Antiquorum achieves outstanding prices for museum quality Breguet timepieces; among which a world record price of SFr. 1,353,000 was paid for a Breguet Silver Carriage Clock. Antiquorum confirmed its leadership on the horological auction market during the week-end sale of 435 timepieces at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel du Rhône in Geneva. A total of SFr.....

Breguet at the summit
Mar 16, 2006
BREGUET TRADITION 7027 Nicolas G. Hayek, who receives us in his office in Bienne, is visibly very proud of the road travelled by Breguet since he acquired the company (along with Nouvelle Lemania, now called Manufacture Breguet) at the end of 1999. The figures speak for themselves: “In 2000, Breguet’s turnover was about 40 million Swiss....

Luxury Institute Ultra-Luxury Watches Survey
Mar 08, 2006
In the new world of transparency, the consumer has the final say and in the latest Ultra-Luxury Watches Brand Status Index survey, conducted by the New York City-based Luxury Institute, Franck Muller earned top honors as the most prestigious purveyor in the Ultra-Luxury Watches segment (score of 80), as rated and ranked by America's penta-millionaires.....