KEEP CALM & CARRY ON - Brexit: Brewing exit?
October 2016
Tea bag IN or OUT?’ Brits ask you when brewing your cup of tea. Comedian James Acaster nailed it with his Brexit tea bag analogy. Leave the tea bag IN, he (…)
LAKIN@LARGE - If you can’t fix it, Brexit
October 2016
Friday, June 24, 2016, the morning after 17,410,742 Britons voted to leave the EU, the ferry I was on from Guernsey docked in Poole, Dorset in the south of (…)
VINTAGEMANIA - Beyer Chronometrie Zurich - “The brands are returning to their roots”
August 2016
Interview with Juergen Delémont, manager of vintage watches at Beyer Chronométrie Zürich.
VINTAGEMANIA - Iconeek: “today, everything sells”
August 2016
Interview with Vanessa and Fabien Chicha, founders of Iconeek.
VINTAGEMANIA - “Collecting vintage watches is making us more demanding”
August 2016
An interview with two young collectors
VINTAGEMANIA - Chronographs for collectors: in praise of diversity
August 2016
Chronographs from the 1950s and 1960s are currently among the most highly prized by collectors. World leaders such as Omega Speedmasters, Breitling (…)
VINTAGEMANIA - My own private frankenwatch
August 2016
By browsing the many vintage watch websites, it’s possible to select exactly the elements you want, and build your very own unique Frankenwatch.
HAUTE HORLOGERIE - High-quality watches at hard prices?
August 2016
The latest study carried out by the Mainfirst banking institute, published in April 2016 and entitled “Hard luxury goods: Short-term pain, long-term gain” (…)
HAUTE HORLOGERIE - Jean-Claude Biver: “Lower prices will not break the market”
August 2016
A few years ago, Jérôme Lambert took an enormous amount of flak in watchmaking circles for having launched a tourbillon at CHF 40,000, which people said (…)
HAUTE HORLOGERIE - Frederique Constant, Peter Stas “Affordable luxury has always been our philosophy”
August 2016
In answer to Montblanc’s Meisterstück Heritage Perpetual Calendar, which was launched in 2014 at a price of €10,000 in steel and €16,900 in rose gold, (…)
ENTRY-LEVEL - Entrepreneurs
August 2016
Following in the footsteps of the Ice-Watch with a fiercely on-trend, elegant and vintage touch, brands like Daniel Wellington, Shinola, Briston, Nixon and (…)
ENTRY-LEVEL - Chez Maman, an Aladdin’s cave of watches
August 2016
When a vintage furniture store in the Marais in Paris starts selling watches, you’d expect no less than an affordable, varied and quirky selection. And (…)