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Chaises-musicales-cover
Point of View
Musical chairs

All those who have never heard of Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author", raise your hand. That's quite a show of hands! Where is this going? I'll explain...

Tuesday, 12 November 2019
4 min read
Influenceurs
Point of View
On influencers

Returning to the subject of influencers, perhaps they don't all deserve to be tossed out with the trash, however great the temptation to reject them all as good-for-nothings.

Tuesday, 10 September 2019
3 min read
Couverture-livre-Pierre-Yves-Donzé
Point of View
The quarrel of excellence and luxury, the paradox of perfection

You may have noticed how, at regular intervals, newspapers like to resurrect a debate not unlike another, much older dispute (from the time of the Sun King to be exact), in which the Ancients and the Moderns clashed, each convinced of a supremacy not easily quantified; a divergence of opinion whose modern equivalent we could call, to paraphrase the exegete Germaine de Staël, the quarrel of excellence and luxury.

Thursday, 01 August 2019
4 min read
GPHG 2018
Point of View
The watch world's "Oscars" and their original sin

Organised under the aegis of a foundation since 2011, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève is regarded as the Oscars of watchmaking. But behind this glittering event there still lies a problem: the competitors nominate themselves!

Tuesday, 09 July 2019
4 min read
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Roger Federer at the Australian Open in 2019
Point of View
Ambassadors and influencers are not in the same league

While brand ambassadors, sportsmen and women in particular, appeal to our inner athlete, what's to be said of influencers, champions of nothing at all. A case of here today, gone tomorrow?

Tuesday, 02 July 2019
3 min read
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Croitre-ou-ne-pas-croitre
Point of View
To grow or not to grow…
Thursday, 24 January 2019
3 min read
Ulysse
Point of View
At Ulysses' table
Thursday, 20 December 2018
3 min read
va-pensiero-05.06.2018
Point of View
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.

Tuesday, 05 June 2018
4 min read
va_pensiero-verre_a_moitie_plein
Point of View
The half-full glass

Latest export figures have proved better than anticipated, which bodes well for what's to come. So let us drink from a half-full glass rather than mope over one left half-dry.

Thursday, 02 February 2017
3 min read
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