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.
Beat Haldimann: when time is of the essence
As the descendent of a line of watchmakers going back four centuries, Beat Haldimann was bound to conceive his timepieces in the purest horological tradition. His watches and all their constituent parts are made at his workshop in Thun, with not a CNC machine in sight.
Longines - Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch 90th Anniversary
The original Hour Angle Watch displayed at the Longines Museum in Saint-Imier served as an inspiration for this unique timepiece.
Luxury gets personal
Deloitte's latest report on the luxury market reveals two trends. One is the shift from the physical environment to digital experience. The second pinpoints luxury consumers' growing desire for personalisation.
Hermès turns leather into gold
Originally a saddlemaker, Hermès prolongs this expertise within its watchmaking division with some of the finest leather straps in the business. The heart of this activity is in Biel, where La Montre Hermès opened in 1978.
Vintage: long live Swiss Made!
Behind the scenes at the big Geneva sales, long-gone brands are enjoying a second life. And for good reason, as certain of these late lamented names are turning up the kind of hidden gem that sets vintage fans alight.
