Serge Maillard

4 weeks ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. Singer Reimagined is, first and foremost, defined by its own unique language and strong design codes, with a distinct identity since its launch in 2017. This is undoubtedly thanks to the expertise of its CEO, designer Marco Borracino, who conceived the identity of the watch brand to be associated with the Californian company acclaimed for “transforming” classic cars. “We are firmly grounded in our design logic that is also very clear,” he explains.

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. The new president of the Arc Horloger association, Richard Vaucher, has watchmaking in his veins: for how many generations has his family name contributed to a field that is at once an industry, a craft, and an art. A graduate of the Saint-Imier watchmaking school in the early 1980s, a particularly trying period for employment in Swiss horology, he was nevertheless recruited by the local giant, Longines.

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Christophe Hoppé’s life is one of striking contrasts: cultural, climatic, and horological. The Frenchman grew up in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked in the electricity sector, before returning to his native Alsace. He then decided to leave the Swiss side of the Jura, where he had gained extensive horological experience, to move to Australia, his wife’s homeland. There, he established one of the country’s few local watch brands, Bausele.

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. Imagine Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but with pens, fibre tips and coloured pencils instead of fudges and candies, and you have the inside of the Caran d’Ache factory in Geneva. The last remaining manufacturer of its kind in Switzerland is filled with weird and wonderful machinery which — necessity being the mother of invention — has been largely purpose-adapted by the company.

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. Seated at the table are Jean-Philippe Dubois, born in 1957, Pierre Dubois, born in 1959, Pascal Dubois, born in 1963, Kevin Dubois, born in 1988, Diane Dubois, born in 1992, and Thibaud Dubois, born in 1995. They are the fourth and fifth generations of the Dubois family. The patriarch, Gérald Dubois, born in 1928 (which makes him 97), is still very much alive, not forgetting the fourth generation of cousins, Stéphane and Claude-Alain Berthoud.