Extreme Watches Push Luminox Forward

Extreme Watches Push Luminox Forward

December 2007
Luminox, famous for its use of self-powered illumination, which needs no ‘charging’ from an external light source, is lighting up the extreme (…)

Faces for our 80th anniversary

Faces for our 80th anniversary

November 2007
The watch industry is, above all, a vast community of men and women who work, day-in day-out, at imagining, elaborating, producing, decorating, distributing (…)

Giving back - watches and charity

Giving back - watches and charity

November 2007
Charity is a good thing and, in the watch industry, charity is becoming an ever more popular thing.

Market Focus: Spain o'clock

Market Focus: Spain o’clock

November 2007
It seems like it was only yesterday that Spain joined the European Economic Community, but it was in fact, in 1986, 20 years ago.

A new generation of luxury websites

A new generation of luxury websites

November 2007
The luxury industry today must deal with new issues tied to the advances of the Internet. This type of media touches all socio-cultural levels. The software (…)

Seiko's Spring Drive – a human, industrial, technological, and artisanal adventure

Seiko’s Spring Drive – a human, industrial, technological, and artisanal adventure

November 2007
With its revolutionary Spring Drive, Seiko has accomplished two things: pushing the standards of ‘mechanical’ precision even farther, and competing (…)

History never ends

History never ends

October 2007
We remember that, a few years ago, an American essayist, Francis Fukuyama, predicted the ‘end of history’. In his opinion, the fall of (…)

Green with envy

Green with envy

October 2007
Everyone knows what glamour is, but it is one of those difficult things to define.

LAKIN@LARGE - The Prince and the strippers

LAKIN@LARGE - The Prince and the strippers

October 2007
It’s been an odd few weeks. I seem to have been in a dozen places at the same time and in none of them really long enough to discover the journalists’ Holy (…)

Richard Mille – doing things his way

Richard Mille – doing things his way

October 2007
Richard Mille watches are very technical, high performance machines that have taken the world by storm. I went to the Richard Mille during the spring (…)

The challenges of indexing

The challenges of indexing

October 2007
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AskJeeves, and even Baidu (a leading search engine in China) are among the many names from the four corners of the (…)

Hong Kong's International Airport retailer – Master of Time

Hong Kong’s International Airport retailer – Master of Time

October 2007
A joint venture between The Nuance Group (the No. 1 airport retailer worldwide) and The A.S. Watson Group, Nuance-Watson (HK) Limited is the leading (…)