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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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A federal certificate for better customer service

March 5th, 2008 will be a red letter day in the watch sector when Nicolas G. Hayek in person presents the first 45 successful candidates with their Watch Sales Consultant Federal Certificate. With this certificate, the Swiss watch industry shows its ability to train its sales staff to a high standard.

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Eric Othenin-Girard
3 min read
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"Fighting the counterfeit industry has become an increasingly complex task"

Marc Frisanco, an expert in the fight against counterfeiting for the Richemont Group, reviews the situation and looks at how this plague on the watch industry has become more global, more active, and how its intermediaries have grown more powerful.

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Quentin Simonet
8 min read
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Minerva Villeret, Montblanc's new Fine Watch signature

A manufacturer of watches established in Villeret, Minerva, which joined Montblanc in early 2007, will emerge from renovation to better serve the brand's ambitions in the Fine Watch segment.

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
3 min read
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Point of View
Antoine Preziuso, a watchmaker with a difference

An independent watchmaker for 30 years, Antoine Preziuso has always sung to his own tune. His watches are a way for him to continually mark his difference with the rest of the industry. B-Side is the proof.

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
5 min read
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Richard Mille: "There will be no other planetary-tellurium"

Richard Mille goes back over the conditions in which his planetary-tellurium came into being. Even if "each piece made him sweat blood and water", the designer smiles a winning smile since his team has achieved a real accomplishment. The final curtain will come down on this era when it is sold this summer.

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Louis Nardin
5 min read
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Alexandre Perraldi, the Samurai of design

Since he took over from Baume & Mercier's design studio in 2001, he has been orchestrating all the brand's watch making projects under the initials Phi, a symbol that corresponds to this 40 year old man well, passionate about the philosophy of the Samurais and in search of perfect balance.

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Marie de Pimodan
4 min read
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