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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?

Thursday, 09 February 2023
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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.

Thursday, 02 February 2023
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One of a kind: the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants

In 1985, in the thick of the quartz crisis, a handful of idealists established the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants to defend the particular values of handcrafted and inventive mechanical horology. Twenty-five years on, and the AHCI is now a landmark.

Thursday, 16 June 2011
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Konstantin Chaykin reinvents moon phases

Anyone passing through the AHCI stand at this year's Baselworld couldn't fail to notice Konstantin Chaykin's latest creation. Particularly as it seemed all the other exhibitors, intent on showing just what the AHCI is capable of, had conspired to direct visitors' attention to this outstanding timepiece.

Thursday, 16 June 2011
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New Models
A new calibre for the Omega Speedmaster

A chronograph movement with column wheel, co-axial escapement, silicon balance spring and time-zone function joins the legendary Speedmaster range. A series-produced calibre finished to a remarkably high standard.

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
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New Models
The Opus Eleven deconstructs time

A new Opus by Harry Winston and a new concept by Denis Giguet: a watch that explodes the hour to reconstruct it a fraction of a second later. An apparent anarchy that never loses track of time.

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
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Harry Winston Opus XI mechanism
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
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White PVD coated dial. Developed by the Institute of Applied Microtechnologies at HE-Arc Ingénierie, this coating was perhaps one of the most talked-about innovations at EPHJ © HE-Arc Ingénierie
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Capturing innovation at the source

Suppliers to the watch industry are increasingly a well of innovation for their customers, as two new coatings, white PVD and hybrid ceramic, both presented at EPHJ-EPMT, demonstrate.

Thursday, 09 June 2011
5 min read
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