Chopard   When, in 1860, the young Louis-Ulysse Chopard first established his watchmaking business in the small Swiss town of Sonvilier, it was always going to be different to the many similar-sized watchmakers then active in the Jura region. For Chopard had his eyes quite firmly fixed on a sector which could be permeated only [...]

Luxury Watch makers Bell & Ross: Since the true renaissance of the mechanical watch in the 1990s, there have been many rebirths of old, long-forgotten watch brands as well as a myriad of new arrivals to the scene. Of the latter, one of the most impressive brands in terms of design, function and, perhaps most [...]

  In East Germany, and only a matter of kilometers from both the Czech and Polish frontiers, there is a small city near Dresden in the Saxony region, called Glashütte. Something special makes this town, with a population of under 5000, stand out from the hundreds of other industrial towns in the region. You could [...]

Certainly one of forerunners in the world of horology, the Blancpain manufacture has its’ beginnings some three centuries ago when in 1735 Jehan-Jacques Blancpain began to produce pocketwatches for the gentry from his workbench in his own house in Villeret, a small town located in the Jura valley in Switzerland.   A pioneer then, whose [...]

Today, when young partners embark on a career path, it is often with a steely determination and targeted aims. Some of these partnerships survive through the early years and grow into successful businesses, but the great majority never get past the first excited flushes of the start-up, and quietly dissolve into obscurity. The two young [...]

Armand Nicolet Manufacture film Armand Nicolet the man was born in the small town of Tramelan, which nestles peacefully, surrounded by the lush green meadows of the famed Jura Valley, the French-speaking Swiss canton so synonymous with the craft of watchmaking since the fifteenth century. The Armand Nicolet name first came to notice towards the [...]