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.
Vianney Halter, in with the old
Step over the threshold at Manufacture Janvier in Sainte-Croix and you immediately understand that this is a temple to watchmaking in the most traditional sense, although not without some concessions to modern technology.
De Bethune takes watchmaking to a new dimension
De Bethune's two founders share a passion for technical innovation and use science to create timepieces that are also masterpieces.
Football and watches: Not a matter of life or death but much more important
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that” are famous and very true words spoken by Bill Shankly, the legendary and successful Liverpool coach during the Seventies.
When Beauty kisses the Beast
Football has won new supporters among some brands but is struggling to seduce the Fine Watch sector.
Silinvar®, Spiromax® and other Patek Philippe Pulsomax®
It has been six years since Patek Philippe started to study the possibilities of the application of silicon in watchmaking techniques.
