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.
Women in watchmaking
Fine Watchmaking is often accused of sidelining women, even though the other half of the sky – to borrow a famous Chinese metaphor – is an essential interlocutor for stakeholders across the board. Women are consistently more attentive to watches, be they precious or complicated. In managerial positions, they know how to provide important and decisive direction.
Ten animal-inspired watches
We almost expect to hear them roar, take to the air in a flurry of wings, break into a gallop or leap from branch to branch. "They" are the butterflies, horses, birds, snakes, monkeys and panthers in watchmakers' fabulous menagerie. An expedition, in images, through lush foliage where precious creatures great and small play.
Now for something completely different…
Parmigiani is promising a major leap forward in power reserve with its Senfine regulator. The face of mechanical watchmaking may never be the same again…
A close-up look at the bezel
Whether as a stylistic or technical element, the bezel formerly served mainly as an effective means of linking the watch glass to the case. Still as essential as ever, it has nonetheless evolved and now plays a variety of roles, including that of a detachable bumper.
Colourful skull!
If its life hung by a thread, it would be the ones that adorn the multi-hued straps and dials of the Big Bang Broderie. As always, Hublot indulges in some clever skullduggery.
John Travolta's luxury: planes and beautiful watches
John Travolta has never missed a beat. From the king of the dancefloor in "Saturday Night Fever" to king of gangsters in "Pulp Fiction", everything this flying enthusiast touches turns to gold. An encounter with a pilot-actor who's never been afraid to aim high.
