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.
"We want to position ourselves as a reference in Fine Watchmaking"
Appointed Industrial Director at Jaeger-LeCoultre in January 2011, prior to taking up his new position as Chief Executive Officer in July this year, Daniel Riedo took time out from the recent Venice Film Festival, which the brand has partnered for almost a decade, to discuss its next steps.
MB&F – tribute to the grand masters
For the past two years, alongside its Horological Machines, the brand led by Max Büsser and Serge Kriknoff has been developing the Legacy Machines concept. Unveiled this week, the second watch in the collection reprises the dual regulator, a principle explored by Ferdinand Berthoud, Abraham-Louis Breguet and Antide Janvier, no less.
The Power Reserve War
Watchmaking brands have launched an all-out war against each other with regard to one of the industry’s more problematic areas: the power reserve. An overview of the latest records achieved, between true performance and marketing one-upmanship.
