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.
De Bethune – Under new ownership
De Bethune has sold the majority of its capital to an investment consortium led by Pierre Jacques, formerly CEO of De Bethune, and private equity investor Giovanni Perin.
Goodbye Mr Dubuis
Roger Dubuis, who in 1995 opened a Manufacture that bore his name, has passed away at the age of 80. He leaves an extraordinary legacy in watchmaking, distinguished as much by an inimitable style as by groundbreaking mechanisms. We look back at an outstanding career.
A. Lange & Söhne, master of discretion
Small brand, niche brand, call it what you will, A. Lange & Söhne quietly builds its considerable success. Is the German watchmaker Richemont's most under-the-radar brand?
All good for Swiss watchmaking
The latest Deloitte study of the Swiss watch industry* highlights renewed optimism among executives, for whom the strongest growth prospects are still in Asia. For the vast majority, smartwatches are not perceived as a threat and digital is seen as an opportunity to develop sales.
Hermès – A shower of stones
It's amazing what diamonds can do, including shaking up the lines of the coveted Nantucket Très Petit Modèle with a seemingly random sprinkling of stones across its steel case.
