Price ladder: Diamond watches
October 2012
Despite an uncertain global economy, diamond watches are still going incredibly strong. There was a time when diamond watches were a sub-category in the (…)
LAKIN@LARGE - A bridge too far?
October 2012
This year, I left Menton’s 38º Celsius sauna at the beginning of August to enjoy a cooler clime and get far away from the madding crowd. Cooler was (…)
Hong Kong under the WorldWatchReport™ magnifying glass
October 2012
The report from the HKTDC Watch & Clock Fair in this issue is the perfect occasion for Digital Luxury Group, which has been monitoring the international (…)
The Prince of Hong Kong
October 2012
To succeed in selling watches in Hong Kong, where the competition is more ferocious than anywhere else in the world, you must do more than just represent (…)
Hong Kong: Getting quieter on the eastern front
October 2012
It is easy to underestimate Hong Kong’s importance in the global watch trade. Not only is the former British colony the biggest exporter of watch components (…)
Focus on Latin America – Introduction
October 2012
Over the last twenty years Latin America as a whole has experienced an unprecedented phase of sustained economic growth, driven by the increase in commodity (…)
LVMH: 22% Increase in Revenue for the First Nine Months of 2012
October 2012
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s leading high quality products group, recorded revenue of €19.9 billion for the first nine months of 2012, an (…)
IWC Schaffhausen opens its own boutique on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse
September 2012
After only recently opening a store at Zurich airport in collaboration with the retailer Turler, IWC now opens a new store at Banhhofstrasse 61 in Zurich’s (…)
Market Focus USA: No rainbows, but a glimpse of the sun
September 2012
Ever since the global recession, the United States has been, in varying degrees, written off by the watch industry. For most watch brands, China has become (…)
Richemont Reports Five Months Sales at Annual General Meeting
September 2012
Ahead of its Annual General Meeting to be held later today in Geneva, Richemont announces that its sales for the five months ended 31 August 2012 increased (…)
How TAG Heuer is slowly distancing itself from Huygens
August 2012
The Mikrotourbillon S presented this autumn by TAG Heuer is the culmination of a long study that goes back nearly ten years. Just to remind you, TAG Heuer (…)
Mechanical wonders – Alternative solutions
August 2012
Almost two years ago, Europa Star published a long three-part investigation entitled, “The Swiss watch planet in movement”. In this article, we detailed the (…)