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.
Trailblazing IWC
As early as 1986, IWC presented a Da Vinci watch with a zirconium oxide case. In doing so, it pioneered the use of this extremely dense ceramic, just a year after launching its new collection named after the Italian polymath. However, machining techniques in the mid-1980s were not sufficiently advanced to produce large volumes of ceramic parts, and only limited numbers of the watch were made.
Watch Analysis brings competitive intelligence into the 21st century
Competitive intelligence is a time-consuming and costly process, but all that is about to change. Two young watch industry executives have developed a fully automated platform, launching October 1st.
Piaget goes "where magic weaves its spell"
Piaget has chosen Tim Walker for its new campaign. The British photographer's extravagance matches that of the firm.
The beginning of the end of the "watch supermarket"
Swatch Group can cut back deliveries of movements and parts as of next year.
Tribute to Gérald Genta
Returning from my mountaintops, where the only news to reach our ears concerns the temperature, the snow and the state of the rock, I learned, with sadness, something I would rather not have heard: Gérald Genta is no longer with us.
Boat-racing, a well-oiled machine
Boat-racing watches have the unique feature of being fitted with a stopwatch which usually show the last 10 minutes prior to the start of a sailing competition. This information can be seen through a system of apertures, which gradually change colour, or hands on tiny counters.
