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.
An anniversary Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie
Set up in 1991 with five brands, the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie celebrates its twentieth anniversary in January 2010, with Greubel Forsey and Richard Mille swelling exhibitors’ ranks.
Auctions outperform the financial markets
The autumn season of auctions in Geneva ended on a more than high note, with results that bode well for the year to come. We take a behind-the-scenes look at the bidding.
Bovet enters a new era
Renowned as a specialist in complications and the decorative arts, Bovet is working on a new in-house calibre for 2013, manufactured in the finest watchmaking tradition.
Cartier unveils its first concept watch
Considered the king of quartz twenty years ago, Cartier’s interest in mechanical watchmaking is now well-established. By way of demonstration, it presents its first concept watch, a model that needs neither regulating nor lubricant.
Ten years of the Omega Co-Axial Escapement
Omega launched the Co-Axial escapement, invented by the eminent watchmaker George Daniels, in 1999. It was the first practical mechanical watch escapement since the Swiss lever escapement more than 150 years ago.
Paul Gerber: The Answer Man
The concept of the impossible does not have a place in the universe of Paul Gerber. In his workshops in Zurich, he translates the most fantastical horologic ideas into functioning mechanics.
