A year of the rabbit for watch brands?
China, which weighed on watch exports at end 2022, will be the key to activity in 2023, a year that opens with mixed prospects. Will China’s impact on luxury sales be as great as in 2021?
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What next for the pre-owned market?
Once dismissed as a hang-out for unscrupulous traders touting fakes, in little more than a decade the pre-owned watch market has grown to remarkable proportions and is expected to surpass sales of new watches. Consultancy firm LuxeConsult predicts this reversal in roles for 2033.
How we put the spring into watches (I)
A component weighing just a few hundredths of a gram transformed the watch from mechanised jewel into a scientific instrument that measured time with sufficient precision to enable navigators to discover the oceans and later take Man into space. Read all about the fabulous adventure of the balance spring…
Vianney Halter, the watchmaker of future past
He has put his name to some five hundred watches in total, and currently produces around twenty a year. Vianney Halter, winner of the 2016 Prix Gaïa, uses mechanical science to further his retro-futuristic vision of watchmaking. The kind that could run on steam!
From feast to fast
In the years when it seemed Swiss watchmaking could do no wrong, the Maisons listened only to their ego and turned a deaf ear to their most precious asset: their identity. Now that times are hard, the ego's echo is making itself heard.
Mission Autavia
An icon among TAG Heuer watches, the totemic racing chronograph, as worn by the legends of Formula 1, will be revealed in its latest version at Baselworld 2017. But what lies beneath a re-issue that is engineered to appeal to our emotions?
Apple, the world's number-two "watchmaker"
Speaking at its recent conference, CEO Tim Cook ranked Apple second in worldwide watch sales, just behind Rolex. Although the event revealed little in the way of figures, one thing is for sure: the invasion of the smartwatch has yet to come.
