Europa Star

Europa Star is a magazine and website focused on the watchmaking industry, offering exceptional coverage across global markets for branded watches and their buyers. Published in Switzerland, Europa Star Global features a dedicated local and international team that delivers vital watch news to major cities and emerging regions around the world.

National

English

Magazine

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#367618

United Kingdom

#64206

Lifestyle/Jewelry and Luxury Products

#409

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

Watchmaking and the centre of the universe

5 days ago | europastar.com | Pierre Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. No matter if the news from the retail front is deceptive, if for some sell-out is cause for concern; tired faces will have had a UV pick-me-up, hands will be shaken, backs slapped, secrets well-kept. For once we have the impression we are “at the centre of the universe”, so why spoil things? But everyone knows: oil is at the centre of the universe, rare earths are at the centre of the universe, chemicals are at the centre of the universe. But watches?
“In five years the fair has almost doubled in size”

2 weeks ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. Since the end of the Basel fair — for decades the annual destination for the watch industry (Europa Star was an exhibitor for more than 80 years) — the sector has slowly been moving to Geneva. Not yet all in one place, with more than 200 brands showing their new releases throughout the canton, it is without contest the most important week in the calendar for watchmakers.
The Generations issue: succession stories in watchmaking

2 weeks ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. As Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, president of Chopard, points out in the interview he, together with his son, gave us for the Generations series that begins in this issue, family-owned companies are not as unusual as we may think, quaint throwbacks to a bygone era. On the contrary.
Ten years apart, is history repeating itself with US tariffs?

2 weeks ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. The watch industry has been dogged these past months by cyclical and, in some cases, structural challenges, culminating, as brands and retailers gathered at Watches and Wonders, in Donald Trump’s announcement of a 31% tariff on imports from Switzerland (versus 20% for the European Union and 10% for the United Kingdom).
In search of Chanel Blue

3 weeks ago | europastar.com | Pierre Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. We spontaneously associate Chanel with two essential colourways: black and white. Gabrielle Chanel herself declared, and demonstrated, that “black has everything. White too. They have an absolute beauty. They are in perfect harmony.”Further proof, the J12 made its debut in 2000 in a black ceramic livery, returning in 2003 clad in white ceramic.
Louis Vuitton and the independents: horological symbiosis

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. In watchmaking, Louis Vuitton has made a winning choice to side with the independents. Since 2009 it has patiently grown its Fabrique du Temps in Geneva (now extended to include La Fabrique des Boîtiers and La Fabrique des Mouvements), building on the skill, experience and immense ingenuity of master watchmakers Enrico Barbasini and Michel Navas, all the while bringing a broad palette of handcrafts, such as miniature painting, in-house.
Travel companions: Louis Vuitton and the independents

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. In watchmaking, Louis Vuitton has made a winning choice to side with the independents. Since 2009 it has patiently grown its Fabrique du Temps in Geneva (now extended to include La Fabrique des Boîtiers and La Fabrique des Mouvements), building on the skill, experience and immense ingenuity of master watchmakers Enrico Barbasini and Michel Navas, all the while bringing a broad palette of handcrafts, such as miniature painting, in-house.
“For Moritz Grossmann, it's all about finishing”

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. It was in 1845 that Moritz Grossmann began his career in a watchmaking workshop. He would go on to become one of Germany’s most influential watchmaking theorists. “In 1880, he wrote a seminal book on constructing a simple yet mechanically flawless watch, which remains the cornerstone of our philosophy,” explains Christine Hutter. A portrait of Moritz Grossmann (1826-1885).
Bvlgari: always in movement

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. “With this launch we’re celebrating something important that began in 2014 with the Octo Finissimo, which heralded in a new era in terms of movement for Bvlgari,” Jean-Christophe Babin recounts.
At Tiffany & co., horlogery comes home

1 month ago | europastar.com | Serge Maillard

Your browser does not support the audio element. The history of watches at Tiffany & Co. is not a linear one. That may be due to the company’s unusual profile, firstly that of an important New York jewellery and gemstone business founded in 1837, but which established itself in Geneva as early as 1874 to apply the efficiency of American productivism to traditional Swiss watchmaking.