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.
Look both ways
Watchmakers may feel they need eyes in the back of their head if they are to keep tabs on Hong Kong while not letting Uncle Sam out of their sight, particularly since the United States has become the main market for Swiss watch exports, and looks set to hold on to this position for the remainder of 2016.
On the couch with Tim Burton
A screening room is where we caught up with Tim Burton whose latest film, “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", a screen adaptation of the children's book with Eva Green in the title role, will be released this autumn. Comfortably seated, we set out to discover what goes on in the mind and on the wrist of this most unconventional of directors.
François Junod, the automaton wizard
He is the artist and craftsman behind the Pushkin android, which "composes" and pens poems it then illustrates with a drawing. François Junod uses a combination of imagination and technical expertise to produce the most extraordinarily engineered automatons. We met him at his studio in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland.
