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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?

Thursday, 09 February 2023
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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.

Thursday, 02 February 2023
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Royal Oak Offshore Ladies' Chronograph © Audemars Piguet
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Handing over the reins at Audemars Piguet

At the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie 2009, Philippe Merk now succeeds Georges-Henri Meylan at the helm of Audemars Piguet. An opportunity to take stock with these two personalities from the watchmaking world.

Friday, 30 January 2009
6 min read
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Vacheron Constantin brings new beauty to Fine Jewellery

The Genevan manufacture is the creator of the most valuable watch at the SIHH 2009. The Kallania weighs in at five million euros and some 170 carats of diamonds.

Friday, 30 January 2009
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New Models
Montblanc banks on its iconic models

If 2008 was a vital exercise for Montblanc in establishing the brand's credibility in the Fine Watch segment, the coming twelve months will be devoted to confirming its status with new and exceptional models. In five short years, the brand has already imposed its style with the Rieussec and Villeret ranges.

Friday, 30 January 2009
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Audemars Piguet's Club for admirers of Fine Watches in Madrid © Audemars Piguet
Economy
Spain promised land

With economic crisis at its door, and consumption on the way down, paradoxically Spain is still a promised land for Fine Watch brands.

Friday, 30 January 2009
Paloma Recio
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Economy
Souvenirs of Asia

What can still be said about the flow of time? Are there any theories left to invent? For centuries, the world's most ingenious horologists have explored a multitude of ways to measure time, calling on technical intricacies, scientific audacity and innovative concepts. A plethora of philosophers, writers and epistemologists have pondered the question, often beating their head against a utopian brick wall. After all, mankind's utopia has always been to conquer time and space.

Friday, 19 December 2008
Quentin Simonet
6 min read
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Montre militaire Omega montée sur la base d'une montre de poche. Cadran entièrement peint © Fabrice Guéroux
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What price that collector's watch?

Counterfeiting hits hardest in three markets: brands, pre-owned and collectors. Spurred on by the current infatuation with watches, itself fuelled by the media and by brands' all-out marketing campaigns, more and more people, from enlightened amateurs to recent converts, are turning to collecting. Meanwhile, the century's biggest communications channel, the Internet, has taken this interest in vintage watches to just about the four corners of the globe.

Friday, 19 December 2008
Fabrice Guéroux
4 min read
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