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.
Omega presents its first Master Chronometer
Beginning a new era in watchmaking excellence, Omega and Metas proudly share the creation, process and results of the industry-changing Master Chronometer certification.
Listen up, collectors!
The first event of its kind in the Middle East, Dubai Watch Week got underway on October 18th. Organised by Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the region's foremost watch retailer, this first edition aims to familiarise the public with the art of horology.
Only Watch: "Put our egos aside and join together"
Forty-four unique watches crossed Aurel Bacs' podium at the sixth edition of Only Watch, a record in the history of this charity auction.
Record participation at Only Watch 2015
Presided for the first time by Aurel Bacs and in association with Phillips, no fewer than 44 one-off timepieces will be auctioned at Only Watch, in Geneva this coming November 7th.
The web of time
After Starfleet Machine and Melchior the robot, introducing Arachnophobia, the spider-clock that spins a new stage in the partnership launched in 2009 between Max Büsser & Friends and clockmaker L'Epée.
Vacheron Constantin scales watchmaking's highest summit
Vacheron Constantin has set a new record for the world's most complicated watch, in the form of Reference 57260. A symbolic figure, as 57 corresponds to the number of complications built into this pocket watch while 260 represents the number of years of uninterrupted activity by the oldest watch Manufacture, an anniversary being celebrated this year.
