BaselWorld has become a ritual event. It is the big powwow that attracts watch tribes from all around the world who come to reaffirm their devotion to this (...)

It is said that the biodiversity of our planet is endangered. And this is most certainly true. The ‘Red List’ of the IUCN (International Union for (...)

With the economic decline, we cannot help but observe a distressing fact: the financial community has not learned any lessons from this devastating (...)

The news is more than alarming—it is a carnage. Statistics released by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry on watch exports for the first half-year (...)

Last year, at this same time and when the market was in full euphoria, we wrote in these columns that, “when the watch bubble will explode, (...)

The watch industry is going to lose ground. This is now certain. It will decline in terms of both value and volume. It will shrink for everyone, but (...)

The watch industry in Switzerland is perhaps one of the only industries in the world to draw the curtain shut and stop production for three weeks every (...)

If we returned home from the spring watch fairs with less weight in our luggage than in previous years, it is not at all because there were less (...)

It continues. . . It continues to rise, unflappable, with no let up in sight. Every month, watches worth more than a billion (yes, with a (...)

We won’t go into detail, in this column, about the dramatic shockwaves travelling through the world of watch auctions. We are not looking to weigh (...)