WORLDWATCHWEB™ - What is Driving Online Interest for THE LUXURY WATCH INDUSTRY’S “HIGH RANGE” BRANDS?
August 2014
At a global level, interest in the High Range category has increased by 6% in the past year. The top most sought-after brands of the category are Rado, (…)
BRANDS - A COURAGEOUS TRIO - A short tribute to three very different brands that dare to believe: VALBRAY, CHRONOSWISS and ATELIERS DEMONACO
August 2014
I’m sure that of the more than three hundred or so Swiss watch companies and the same amount of ‘foreigners’ at the last Baselworld, there were dozens of (…)
BRANDS - VALBRAY Opens its Shutters
August 2014
Côme de Valbray and Olga Corsini met by chance in 2009 and realized that their interests in horology, design and creativity were closely allied. They spent (…)
BRANDS - The Resurgence of CHRONOSWISS
August 2014
Oliver and Eva Ebstein – Managing Director and Chairman - took ownership of Chronoswiss in 2012. Neither having been in the watch industry prior to that (…)
BRANDS - The ATELIERS DEMONACO Challenge
August 2014
When the Ateliers deMonaco was launched in 2009, the vision of the founders was to create a high-end watch brand despite that at that particular moment in (…)
BRANDS - Straight Talk with GUCCI’S PATRIZIO DI MARCO
August 2014
At Baselworld, I had the honour and the pleasure of sitting down, one on one, with president, chairman and chief executive of Gucci Worldwide, Patrizio di (…)
LETTER FROM CHINA - 25th Shenzhen Watch and Clock Fair “JE T’AIME, MOI NON PLUS...”
August 2014
The 25th Shenzhen watch and clock fair was heavily coloured by the Sino-Swiss Free Trade Agreement. In the watchmaking sector particularly, the agreement (…)
LETTER FROM USA - THE RECOVERY IS COMING, but it’s not Complete Here Yet
August 2014
With China slowing down, brands are turning to other, more mature markets. The US market, in particular, is showing some signs of recovery, though the (…)
RETAILER PROFILE - TOURNEAU - Ira Melnitsky
August 2014
Tourneau is one of the world’s biggest retailers, with 33 stores scattered throughout the US. During BaselWorld, we had the opportunity to sit down with (…)
SERVICE, PLEASE! - Service experiences WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD at the retail level - part 2
August 2014
We continue our survey of the best and worst of customer services as experienced by the customer-facing retailers with the second part of the article that (…)
LAKIN@LARGE - QUELLE SURPRISE:
A FREEBIE!
August 2014
I’ve known my friend Irv since the 1960s when we both worked in a beleaguered and much maligned investment company that was murdered in the early 1970s. We (…)
New Moscow and New York Boutiques for A. Lange & Söhne
August 2014
Moscow and New York are the locales for A. Lange & Söhne’s next boutique inaugurations. For Lange CEO Wilhelm Schmid, the imminent openings reflect the (…)