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.
22, PLACE VENDÔME or permanent creation
Bringing together the watchmaking tradition and the excellence of the jeweler’s savoir-faire, Van Cleef & Arpels creates exceptional timepieces. The Poetry of Time pays tribute to these creations through photographs signed by Guy Lucas de Pesloüan.
South America, a small but steady portion of the Haute Horlogerie market
Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina… the Latin American countries did suffer from the global crisis that affects the world economy. But they still represent interesting markets for the Haute Horlogerie brands.
Made-to-measure by Antoine Preziuso
Urban Square, the latest model from Antoine Preziuso, is a highly symbolic piece. The Genevan master-watchmaker has imagined a minimalist watch in titanium with an in-house additional module that is also a product of today’s challenging times.
Distribution reaches a turning point
Distribution must contend with important challenges in the years to come, and the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH), in partnership with Bocconi University School of Management in Milan, is shedding light on what these challenges will be. Their findings will be made public next January during the 2010 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva. Carlo Ceppi, Mission Delegate for the Italy-Greece delegation at the FHH and Manager for IWC Italy , gives a foretaste of the survey’s conclusions.
On the environmental bandwagon
When a company makes diving watches, surely it’s only natural that it should care about the marine environment, which is plagued by pollution. A number of firms have indeed decided to do their bit, just to show that ecology is everyone’s business. And possibly promote their core values at the same time, with tailor-made products into the bargain.
Complications take the plunge
Diving watches are in demand not only for their subaquatic virtues, as watchmakers are well aware. For the man on the beach, their sporting style and robust design are more convincing arguments. Exactly the motivation firms need to go on "loading" models which, stripped to the bare essentials, would resemble nothing more than, well, a diving watch. And when it comes to pulling out all the stops, watchmakers can be trusted to put their expertise to good use with all manner of complications.
