12 DISRUPTIONS

	CONTENTS TIME.BUSINESS TIME.KEEPER THE WATCH FILES HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO CHANNEL WATCH GALLERY JEWELLERY ARCHIVES DATA OPINIONS BRANDS E-MAGAZINE OPINIONS BRANDS E-MAGAZINE SUBSCRIBE PARTNERSHIP ABOUT ABOUT CURRENT ISSUE WORLDWATCHWEB WATCH AFICIONADO NEWSLETTER CONTACT US PARTNERSHIP SUBSCRIBE FACEBOOK TWITTER YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM TERMS OF USE PRIVACY POLICY		Español Français Pусский 繁體中文简体中文 Select another language

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	CONTENTS TIME.BUSINESS TIME.KEEPER THE WATCH FILES HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO CHANNEL WATCH GALLERY JEWELLERY ARCHIVES DATA OPINIONS BRANDS E-MAGAZINE OPINIONS BRANDS E-MAGAZINE SUBSCRIBE PARTNERSHIP ABOUT ABOUT CURRENT ISSUE WORLDWATCHWEB WATCH AFICIONADO NEWSLETTER CONTACT US PARTNERSHIP SUBSCRIBE FACEBOOK TWITTER YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM TERMS OF USE PRIVACY POLICY		Español Français Pусский 繁體中文简体中文 Select another language

12 DISRUPTIONS

Watches and bitcoins

Watches and bitcoins

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New virtual currencies like the famous bitcoin are just early arrivals in a new digital revolution, the blokchain. The first timepieces inspired by this (...)

12 disruptions in the watchmaking industry

12 disruptions in the watchmaking industry

STYLE, CHANNEL, LAB

This spring, we focus on the 12 upheavals facing the watch industry today. Divided in three sections – STYLE, CHANNEL, LAB – the report dives deeper into the (...)

The hybridisation of high-end watches

The hybridisation of high-end watches

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Hybrid designs combining mechanics and electronics is one path being explored in chronometric watchmaking. But beyond precision, hybridisation may also be (...)

Watchmaking and science: origami, nanotubes and capsules

Watchmaking and science: origami, nanotubes and capsules

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Mechanical watches are currently accurate enough to satisfy our everyday needs for precision. Their appeal lies elsewhere. Innovation is not so much a (...)

Laboratories are the hub of progress

Laboratories are the hub of progress

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Watchmakers tried, prototyped, disassembled, reassembled and tweaked until it worked – like clockwork. That was then. Now, watchmaking no longer revolves (...)

The end of the passive ambassador?

The end of the passive ambassador?

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

We’ve seen so many stars posing with a luxury watch on their wrist and being handsomely paid for the service that we’ve forgotten one thing: if these (...)

New actors the ambitious plan of chrono24

New actors the ambitious plan of chrono24

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Chrono24 is one of the main new actors of the watch market in the digital age. This leading global online marketplace for buyers and sellers of vintage and (...)

The forced march towards digitisation

The forced march towards digitisation

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Sponsored content on Facebook, e-commerce websites, transparent watch prices, massive investment in SEO on Google – faced with the digital tidal wave that (...)

The end of the “regular” retailer

The end of the “regular” retailer

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Bucherer’s acquisition of Tourneau is the latest sign to date of a consolidation in distribution, a move towards becoming more powerful in negotiations with (...)

Watches and connection: parting on good terms

Watches and connection: parting on good terms

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Every market needs a strong symbolic leader, a locomotive, a benchmark to ensure its survival. Rolex is that symbol for the “traditional” watch, and Apple (...)

Personalisation, for the privileged few?

Personalisation, for the privileged few?

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Reserved until recently for a few highend watches, personalisation is now gaining ground. Mainly as a result of the internet, new technologies, or the new (...)

XXL gets a downsizing

XXL gets a downsizing

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Watchmaking was becoming larger than life, beefed up beyond all recognition. Now the superdoping would appear to have stopped and a little more decency has (...)

The exponential rise in niche markets

The exponential rise in niche markets

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Hardly a day goes by without a new brand emerging, or trying to emerge, mainly on platforms such as Kickstarter. A surprising fact, given that the (...)

The risky lure of neo-vintage

The risky lure of neo-vintage

12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Slowly but surely over the past few years, a vintage wave has been sweeping through the watchmaking establishment and influencing styles like few phenomena (...)