In its 2009 World Watch Report, IC-Agency has included its first analysis of social networking sites and their importance for watch brands.

Luc Perramond, who took over at the head of La Montre Hermès on January 5th this year, has set his sights high for the watchmaking wing of the world-famous French luxury brand.

As a specialist in the study of time in physics, Etienne Klein* generously accepted to share his thoughts on this universal question. The second in a three-part exchange.

Kari Voutilainen was born in Finland in 1962, and admits that watchmaking has been his passion for the past thirty years. A passion that first took him to the Tapiola Watchmaking School, then on to the International Watchmaking School in Neuchâtel, where he completed the WOSTEP course in complication watches. Singled out by Parmigiani Mesure et Art du Temps, he spent ten years there before returning to WOSTEP and a three-year stint as director of the complication watch section. In 2002, Kari Voutilainen set up his own business in Môtiers, as an artisan d'horlogerie d'art. We caught up with him at Baselworld.

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Roger Dubuis in summer 2008, Matthias Schuler, formerly Chief Operating Officer at IWC, talks about the brand's future.

With sales for the fourth quarter 2008 taking a plunge, Corum has completely revised its strategy and is now focusing on creativity and exclusivity. Retailers no longer want to tie up their cash assets in basic products. Antonio Calce, chief executive, explains.