As a translator, my job is essentially to take a load of French words, and turn them into a load of English words. Although it’s unclear exactly how many (...)

The very serious slowdown experienced by the Swiss watchmaking industry in 2016 had at least one positive effect – it provided a clearer view of things, (...)

It’s the fault of… It is true that any number of reasons of all kinds, a whole interwoven knot of reasons, have placed the watchmaking industry in a (...)

Comments by Denis Asch, watch expert and former retailer who closed his shop rather than change profession.

With the democratisation of intercontinental travel prices and the opening up of China, which began sending ever greater streams of tourists all over the (...)

The volatility in purchasing, which has become global and migratory depending on international prices, is posing serious problems for the brands, (...)

Wildly fluctuating exchange rates, the price slump, volatile customers, accumulating stocks, discount, competition from smartwatches, the grey market, the (...)

For the past fifty years, the only so-called ‘watches’ worn by young people have been garish, interchangeable, gimmicky things; accessories rather than real (...)

Ruined, oppressed, plundered – Germany’s watchmaking stronghold has succeeded in rising from the ashes several times over. Its “quartz crises” were real wars, (...)

If the most expert Japanese collectors or Singaporean aficionados know of Besançon, it’s without doubt the ‘fault’ of Alain Silberstein. And yet the watchmaker (...)