With exports growing 16% last year to almost CHF 16 billion and a further 23% in January 2008, the Swiss watch industry, if we needed reminding, is hot property…
Plan-les-Ouates, on the outskirts of Geneva, needs no introduction as the favoured location for watchmakers on intimate terms with the Poinçon de Genève (see HH Journal n°8/September 2007 and n°9/October 2007)…
New production facilities for Harry Winston in Geneva; new Manufactures to come for Jaquet Droz and Hublot; extensions to Cartier's watchmaking site in Le Crêt-du-Locle; more square metres for IWC in Schaffhouse; twice the area for Vacheron Constantin in La Vallée de Joux; new premises for Audemars Piguet that will bring watch production from all its other sites under one roof; plans for Franck Muller to develop in Les Bois; Breitling Chronométrie expanding in Les Eplatures, not to mention the 9,000 sq…
Taken over by Kering (ex-PPR) a year and a half ago, Sowind Group, which owns Girard-Perregaux and JeanRichard, has sharpened the focus of its collections and honed production. Michele Sofisti, Chief Executive of Sowind, discusses the new strategy.
In this 30th anniversary year of the Louis Vuitton Cup, prelude to the America's Cup, the Parisian luggage-maker, and watchmaker since 2002, presents an innovative complication: a monopusher twin chronograph with time difference display.
Interviewed at Baselworld 2013, Zenith Chief Executive Jean-Frédéric Dufour talked about the strategy of a brand that's heading for the heights after which it is named.