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.
Antonio Calce: "Reconnect Girard-Perregaux with its heritage"
After its 225th anniversary in 2016 and the Laureato's big comeback this year, Girard-Perregaux is the brand to watch. Chief Executive Antonio Calce talks strategy.
Zenith "defies" the laws of precision mechanics
We take an inside look at Zenith's new oscillator, placed inside the Defy Lab which is billed as "the world's most accurate mechanical watch". A development set to revolutionise the watch industry and put the brand with the star back into the firmament.
Zenith's quantum leap
Zenith has given its legendary El Primero a successor with the ZO 342 calibre inside the Defy Lab. This new watch has the particularity of a case made from an innovative composite material based on metal foam, and a very high frequency movement with a monolithic silicon oscillator. Zenith promises it is "the world's most precise watch".
Smartwatches prepare to go it alone
It's the biggest buzz in smartwatches: the next-gen Apple Watch, planned for release this autumn, will no longer be tethered to a smartphone. Jean-Claude Biver is also a contender with the TAG Heuer Connected.
