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.
Stars in their eyes at the Confrérie Horlogère
Mathias Buttet, CEO of BNB Concept, is giving his watchmakers the chance to create watches under their own name.
Piaget steps firmly into a new segment
Piaget sets out to seduce elegant sports fans with a new interpretation of its iconic Polo watch, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
"Crisis always brings opportunity"
Bernard Fornas, CEO of Cartier, believes creativity is the key to snapping up new market share.
A hard-hitting anti-counterfeiting campaign
The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, in partnership with the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, is launching an international campaign to wipe out counterfeiting. This new campaign targets those who carry the most responsibility for keeping this twenty-first century scourge alive: the people who buy.
Small is beautiful
Smaller brands appear to be weathering the economic storm, carried along by their modest size and flexible structure.
