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Why nobody talks about watch investment value

Why nobody talks about watch investment value

GUEST COLUMN

Odd as it may sound, in the connoisseur and collector circles, ‘investment value’ is seldom a topic. Time is changing. What values do (...)

Swatch Group VS. Baselworld

Swatch Group VS. Baselworld

ÚLTIMAS NOTICIAS

Follow-up on the Swatch Group’s withdrawal from Baselworld by the groups CEO Nick Hayek

How to fix this Messe

How to fix this Messe

BASELWORLD

Following the departure of the Swatch Group, the vultures are circling over Baselworld. Located in a capital of art, the show may, however, find salvation (...)

Earthquake in Basel

Earthquake in Basel

Nick Hayek has announced that the Swatch Group is withdrawing from Baselworld 2019. Will the global trade fair ever recover?

What the heck does that damn consumer want?

What the heck does that damn consumer want?

THE MYTHS OF COMMERCE (PART 1/5)

We are at a turning point in the history of retail. Many youngsters propose new models they deem “customer-focused” in the digital age. But their focus has (...)

Great Britain: a horological superpower for 200 years

Great Britain: a horological superpower for 200 years

GUEST COLUMN

For about 200 years before the 20th century, Great Britain boasted undisputed supremacy of watchmaking, thanks to the British Empire’s global maritime (...)

New materials: a strategic challenge

New materials: a strategic challenge

The Swiss mechanical watchmaking “revival” has essentially entailed a process of renewing existing mechanical skills. The task was to show that mechanical (...)

New materials: genuine progress or marketing hype?

New materials: genuine progress or marketing hype?

EDITORIAL

Suddenly, an anxiety installs: and if the multiples announcements about new materials, particular applied for watch casing, constituted actually a watch (...)

Surprise! Most people in Hong Kong don't care about watches…

Surprise! Most people in Hong Kong don’t care about watches…

GUEST COLUMN

The founder of the online retail platform for independent watch brands Skolorr, Sky Sit shares with our readers her vision of the industry. This first (...)

An exercise in contrition

An exercise in contrition

BASELWORLD 2018

An official closing press conference? That’s unusual! In fact, it’s unheard-of at Baselworld. Was it to hurriedly extinguish the flames of a rumoured (...)

On the shortness of life

On the shortness of life

A LAST WORD TO START

I am always astonished when I see people requesting the time of others and receiving a most accommodating response from those they approach. Both sides (...)

Klein Baselworld

Klein Baselworld

BASEL 2018 NOTEBOOK

The traditional opening press conference would have been an opportunity for Baselworld to indulge in a little transparency, and to explain publicly some of (...)

The resilience of the watch industry

The resilience of the watch industry

EDITORIAL

The watch industry, which tries so hard to control everything – production upstream, distribution downstream and communication at all points in between – is (...)

Basel-bashing

Basel-bashing

BASELWORLD 2018

Let’s stop being dramatic. “Baselbashing” has reached an all-time high. In this digital age, all watch trade fairs must change their operational procedure. So (...)

Have time, will travel

Have time, will travel

EDITORIAL

Watchmakers did not need Einstein to intuitively understand that time and space are closely associated, like the two faces of the same coin. Their art was (...)

A last word to start

A last word to start

WHERE TO?

"Change, but in what direction?” This apparently simple question was put by French philosopher André Comte-Sponville at the most recent Forum de la Haute (...)

Our direction in 2018

Our direction in 2018

EDITORIAL

Every industry has been transformed by digital technology – the media as much as, if not more than the watch industry! Times of transition, periods of (...)

It may be smart, but is it clever?

It may be smart, but is it clever?

WATCHWORDS

The Internet of Things promises a multitude of additional smart devices that will embed internet connectivity into even more areas of our lives, making (...)

Worldtimer and the snob

Worldtimer and the snob

FREELY SPEAKING

Browsing on the internet I came across a blog by ‘Watch Snob’ on which a potential buyer wrote that he knew nothing about watches but was interested in a (...)

Great eggspectations

Great eggspectations

FREELY SPEAKING

I like Hong Kong. I love the vibrant ambience in the streets, the shops and the malls, the Temple Street Night Market, the hubbub around the food stalls in (...)