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.
A lesson in tradition
"Le Garde Temps – Naissance d’une Montre", a project aimed at safeguarding traditional handcraft techniques, is entering its final stage: the school watch is virtually finished, the first undecorated prototype will be auctioned in March, and the first of the eleven promised watches will be delivered at the end of the year.
Simplicity theory by Laurent Ferrier
A single manoeuvre and a rapid glance are all it takes to cross time zones. An exploration of the pure aesthetic of the Galet Traveller Boréal.
Never say never !
They said it would never happen: HYT would never make a classic watch. Now the brand has had a change of heart and is exploring watchmaking's traditional side. The result, the H2 Tradition, puts a classic spin on fluid mechanics.
Is 20 the age of opportunity?
Yes, according to Parmigiani Fleurier as it celebrates its twentieth anniversary with the Tonda Chronor Anniversaire, its first integrated chronograph.
Classicism is a tradition with a future
Montblanc looks to the first chronographs to have been made by Minerva in the 1920s as the inspiration for the Heritage Annual Calendar Chronograph. A future classic?
