A history of watch advertising: 1900-1919
June 2023
A meeting with Watchfinder & Co. CEO Arjen van de Vall
June 2023
The platform recently launched its own marketplace – an important development for the UK-based company, which belongs to Richemont and exhibited at (…)
Olivier Mory: industrial methods meet fine watchmaking
April 2023
Olivier Mory was thirteen when he fell in love… with watchmaking. Fortunately the feeling was mutual and the two have been together ever since! What makes (…)
Concentration continues in watch distribution
MARKETS
January 2023
A distribution strategy that emphasises monobrand stores is benefitting a small number of powerful retailers with the necessary logistical and financial (…)
Piaget’s treasure hunter
INTERVIEW
October 2022
Guillaume Chautru, the head of Piaget’s gemmology department, is constantly on the lookout for rare stones to grace the brand’s jewellery. Sourcing the (…)
“I’m interested in the exuberant and flamboyant side of Piaget”
INTERVIEW
April 2022
Since his appointment as CEO of Piaget last year, Benjamin Comar has been working to reinforce the brand’s values of extravagance and elegance, even coining (…)
Introducing the Piaget Polo Date in 36 mm
August 2021
The Piaget Polo is best known for its shape-in-shape design with a round bezel and cushion shaped dial, which remains at the heart of this new model. Thanks (…)
Privilège
April 2021
How can you resist the special, poetic, sensitive and often colourful attraction of jewellery watches? To be able to afford these works of art remains a (…)
Superlative watchmaking
April 2021
How many expert collectors are there in the world wealthy enough to buy these superlative watches, wonders of mechanical ingenuity and artistic skill? Few, (…)
Report: Jewellery and Watches
SPECIAL REPORT
March 2021
The many interactions between two worlds
Portfolio: the laboratory of shapes
March 2021
Jewellery offers liberties that watchmaking, which has to comply with technical imperatives, does not allow. But this connivance between two related (…)
Watchmaking in search of eternity
ANALYSIS
March 2021
While mechanical watchmaking – the existence of which dates back not millennia but “merely” a few centuries – could conceivably one day dwindle and die out, (…)
