The performance was highlighted by robust jewellery sales and continued retail channel momentum. This was offset by a relatively weak wholesale channel, (…)

For the second part of our focus on Latin America, we moved beyond the confines of the Swiss watchmaking industry to talk to Masahiko Masukawa, general (…)

A visit to the relatively modest premises of Roger Dubuis in Meyrin, on the outskirts of Geneva, reveals a text book example of what a true manufacture (…)

Baume & Mercier has changed a lot over the past few years. While the brand’s outward identity is now characterised by the appealing seaside escape (…)

The topic of weakening luxury sales in China has been much discussed for some time now. Adding to that the politically sensitive period of the government (…)

In 2012, the Swatch Group generated gross sales of CHF8143 million and, as a result, exceeded the previous year’s gross sales by a billion or +14.0%. Again (…)

Willard Wigan is a well-known artist, honoured by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 as a “Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” for his (…)

The new Richard Mille Singapore boutique was inaugurated on 14th December at Grand Hyatt Hotel on Orchard Road. It is one of the brand’s largest showrooms, (…)

Before taking over Girard-Perregaux, the late Gino Macaluso studied architecture. Obsessed his entire life by an art that had always inspired him, Macaluso (…)

“Guru of Haute Horlogerie”, “Cardinal of the Richemont Group”—the description of the role(s) played by Franco Cologni in the vast reorganisation of Swiss (…)

Children are not the only ones who like to play at being scared. These days there are so many examples, in both film and literature, of post-apocalyptic (…)

Is watchmaking an art? Is it the 12th Art, as was ceremoniously proclaimed during the last Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix?