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.
ECAL joins the fight against fakes
The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) and the University of Art and Design in Lausanne (ECAL) have joined forces in a project to produce short films on the theme of counterfeiting. This partnership is part of a wider awareness campaign in which the general public and Swiss film-makers also play a part.
Montblanc brings Collection Villeret 1858 watches to Beverly Hills
Ideas, trends and fashions may be born the world over in cities like London, Tokyo and New York, but it’s in Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive that a product gets its test for success.
Time runs out for Nicolas Hayek
Nicolas G. Hayek passed away in his office at the age of 82. Rightly credited as the man who saved Swiss watchmaking, he worked relentlessly to develop a group which, with its 24,000 employees, 160 factories and gross sales of CHF 5.4 billion in 2009, stands head and shoulders above the global watch industry.
George Clooney: "I’m proud to call him my friend."
Nicolas Hayek was known for his straight talking, for his no-holds-barred stances, and for his talent as a showman.
Under the Caribbean sun
Tourism is taking off again in the Caribbean, and watch sales with it. In Saint Martin, Barbados and Porto Rico, purchases are made in a matter of minutes, and retailers must explain complex timepieces to holiday-makers in less than an hour.
