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.
Richemont enters the second-hand watch market
Having acquired Watchfinder, a UK-based platform for buying and selling pre-owned watches, Richemont is the first big name to enter the increasingly coveted and fast-growing market for second-hand timepieces.
Audemars Piguet's new art commission
The watchmaker's fourth Art Commission is HALO, an immersive installation that will be shown during Art Basel, June 13th to 17th. The work is by British artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, collectively known as Semiconductor, in collaboration with Spanish curator Mónica Bello, head of arts at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva.
LVMH has football cornered
On the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, it's clear that two brands – TAG Heuer and Hublot, both LVMH - have swept the board in football. Behind this winning strategy is the one and only Jean-Claude Biver, President of the luxury number one's watch division.
A first look at what's new for next year's Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie
A packed programme, a shorter schedule, and more connected than ever. Geneva, Thursday June 7, 2018 – Save the date: the next Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) at Palexpo, Geneva, will take place January 14-17, 2019. Setting the tone for the twelve months to come, it adopts a four-day schedule instead of the usual five with the convenience of longer opening hours, every day from 8.30am to 8pm.
Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier, specialist in extra-thin
The movement-maker is an exhibitor at EPHJ in Geneva. One of the products on show will be the Seed VMF 5440 calibre – an extra-thin (3.40 mm) automatic flying tourbillon movement with micro-rotor.
Baselworld vs SIHH: who stands to gain?
It seems there is always someone doing their level best to pit Baselworld and SIHH one against the other. As though these two fine initiatives were opposites that could never attract... when for the past 28 years they have coexisted on perfectly good terms, each having "just about" found its market and its audience. And it's this "just about" that should be occupying our thoughts.
